[176.] Cf. Wilamowitz, Sappho und Simonides, pp. 63-69 on Chansons de Bilitis, pp. 71-78 on Lesbian Love.
[177.] Cf. Edwin M. Cox, p. 5, where he quotes Barnabe Barnes’ Parthenophil and Parthenophe, 1593:
O, that I could make her, whom I love best,
Find in a face, with misery wrinkled,
Find in a heart, with sighs over ill-pined,
Her cruel hatred.
In Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody, 1602, are some Sapphics by the mysterious “A. W.” Here is a sample:
Hatred eternal, furious revenging,
Merciless raging, bloody persecuting;
Slanderous speeches, odious revilings;