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Barnes, Barnabe (1571–1609), attempted, in 1598, to kill the recorder of Berwick with poisoned claret, but he successfully evaded sentence. He published a sonnet sequence, Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes (1593), notable as one of the first of such collections to appear after Sidney's Astrophel and Stella; A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets (1595); Foure Bookes of Offices (1606); and The Divils Charter: A Tragaedie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt (1607), a vigorous Machiavellian drama which includes such melodramatic scenes as the murder of Lucrezia Borgia with poisoned face wash. Barnes's poetry is remarkable for its vigour and technical range.

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Barnabe Barnes 1569?-1609, English poet. His major work is Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593), a collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes. He also wrote A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets (1595) and The Devil's Charter (1607), a tragedy on the life of Pope Alexander VI.

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