There is not enough human reality about Parthenia to allow her representative to interest very deeply the sympathy of her hearers.
The first music ever printed for the Virginals was 'Parthenia,' published in London, 1611.
Then Parthenia dresses herself as a knight, and fights her husband's conqueror.
Parthenia's coolness enabled Mrs. Gartney to assert, somewhat more confidently, her own dignity.
The original text inconsistently uses a breve over the e in "Parthenia" and "Passameso."
