Note 379 — APPENDIX
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Cal. of the Duke of Rutland’s MSS. i. 321. Barnabe Barnes, who was one of Southampton’s poetic admirers, addressed a crude sonnet to ‘the Beautiful Lady, The Lady Bridget Manners,’ in 1593, at the same time as he addressed one to Southampton. Both are appended to Barnes’s collection of sonnets and other poems entitled Parthenophe and Parthenophil (cf. Arber’s Garner, v. 486). Barnes apostrophises Lady Bridget as ‘fairest and sweetest’