Robert Parry (1540–1612) was a Welsh poet, romancier and translator who published the romance Moderatus and a collection of verse entitled Sinetes Passions, which may have influenced Shakespeare's sonnets.
His patron was Sir John Salusbury, the local leader of a group of poets dedicated to mystical and acrostic verse.
[3] The full title of Parry's poetry book is "Sinetes passions vppon his fortunes offered for an incense at the shrine of the ladies which guided his distempered thoughtes.
Together with Sinetes dompe" The "patron's pathetical posies" have been said to be verses by Salusbury himself, but G. Blakemore Evans argues that they are by Parry, characterised by his typical heavy use of alliteration and word repetition.
[4] The main body of the book comprises forty six "passions", a series of four-verse complaints about love.