Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find ...
        (An Ode, 31-32)

1. An Ode
2. To his Friend Master R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry

Notes on Life and Works

• Massai, Sonia. "Barnfield, Richard (bap. 1574, d. 1620)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

  Biographical information

  Given name: Richard
  Family name: Barnfield
  Birth date: 13 June 1574
  Death date: ca. February 1620
  Nationality: English
  Family relations
            father: Richard Barnfield
            mother: Maria Barnfield
  Language: English
  Education: Brasenose College, Oxford (B.A.): 27 November 1589 to 5 February 1592
  Literary period: Elizabethan
  Residences
            Darlaston, Staffordshire to 1627
            Norbury, Shropshire: 1674
  Buried at: Church of St. Michael's, Stone
  First RPO edition: 1996-2000
  

  
  
  

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