Richard Barnefield — a remark

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“Small is the gift, but great is my good-will; the which, by how much the lesse I am able to expresse it, by so much the more it is infinite.”

Expressing sincere affection and humility in offering imperfect verse · Dedication to the Earl of Derby, Cynthia (1595)

About Richard Barnefield

Richard Barnefield

29 June 1574–1627

Richard Barnefield, baptized on 29 June 1574 and buried in 1627, occupies a small but remarkably provocative place in the history of English Renaissance poetry. He was not among the most prolific writers of the Elizabethan age, nor did he sustain a public literary career over decades as Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, or…

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