[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;