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She streight into the kitchen went,
Her message for to tell;

And there she spied the master-cook,

Who did with malice swell.

Nowe, master-cook, it must be soe,

Do that which I thee tell:

You needes must dresse the milk-white doe,
Which you do knowe full well.

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O then, cried out the scullion-boye,
As loud as loud might bee ;

O save her life, good master-cook,

And make your pyes of mee!

For pityes sake do not destroye

My ladye with your knife;
You know shee is her father's joye,

For Christes sake save her life.

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Now sit you downe, his ladye sayd,
O sit you downe to meat: h
Into some nunnery she is gone;
Your daughter deare forget.

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If now you will your daughter see,
My lord, cut up that pye :

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Wherein her fleshe is minced small,

And parched with the fire;

All caused by her step-mother,
Who did her death desire.

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XV.

A HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID.

This Song is a kind of Translation of a pretty poem of Tasso's, called Amore fuggitivo, generally printed with his AMINTA, and originally imitated from the first Idyllium of Moschus.

It is extracted from Ben Jonson's Masque at the marriage of lord viscount Hadington, on Shrove-Tuesday 1608. One stanza, full of dry mythology, is here omitted, as it had been dropt in a copy of this song printed in a small volume called "Le Prince d'Amour. Lond. 1660," 8vo.

BEAUTIES, have yee seen a toy,
Called Love, a little boy,

Almost naked, wanton, blinde;
Cruel now, and then as kinde ?

If he be amongst yee, say;
He is Venus' run away.

Shee, that will but now discover

Where the winged wag doth hover,
Shall to-night receive a kisse,

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How and where herselfe would wish:

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But who brings him to his mother

Shall have that kisse, and another.

Markes

Markes he hath about him plentie;

You may know him among twentie:
All his body is a fire,

And his breath a flame entire :

Which, being shot, like lightning, in,

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