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Page 24
... woods are decked with leaves , And trees are clothed gay ; And Flora , crowned with sheaves , With oaken boughs doth play : Where I am clothed with black , The token of my wrack . Lyly . The birds upon the trees Do sing with pleasant ...
... woods are decked with leaves , And trees are clothed gay ; And Flora , crowned with sheaves , With oaken boughs doth play : Where I am clothed with black , The token of my wrack . Lyly . The birds upon the trees Do sing with pleasant ...
Page 31
... woods their echoes back rebounded , As if they knew the meaning of their lays . But ' mongst them all , which did love's honour raise , No word was heard of her that most it ought ; But she his precept proudly disobeys , And doth his 31 47.
... woods their echoes back rebounded , As if they knew the meaning of their lays . But ' mongst them all , which did love's honour raise , No word was heard of her that most it ought ; But she his precept proudly disobeys , And doth his 31 47.
Page 39
... Woods , or steepy mountain yields . And we will sit upon the rocks , Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . And I will make thee beds of roses , And 39.
... Woods , or steepy mountain yields . And we will sit upon the rocks , Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . And I will make thee beds of roses , And 39.
Page 47
... many a carol sang , Until the fields and meadows rang , And that the woods did sound . In favour this same shepherd swain Was like the bedlam Tamberlane , Which held proud kings in awe : But meek as any lamb mought be , And innocent 47.
... many a carol sang , Until the fields and meadows rang , And that the woods did sound . In favour this same shepherd swain Was like the bedlam Tamberlane , Which held proud kings in awe : But meek as any lamb mought be , And innocent 47.
Page 60
... wood , Willy . Wood as he that did them keep . Perigot . As the bonny lass passed by , ( Hey - ho , bonny lass ! ) Willy . Perigot . She roved at me with glancing eye , Willy . As clear as the crystal glass : Perigot . All as the sunny ...
... wood , Willy . Wood as he that did them keep . Perigot . As the bonny lass passed by , ( Hey - ho , bonny lass ! ) Willy . Perigot . She roved at me with glancing eye , Willy . As clear as the crystal glass : Perigot . All as the sunny ...
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Anonymous Barnabe Barnes beauty beauty's behold Ben Jonson birds breath bright bring Campion Carmela Charon Claia Corydon cuckoo Daffodil dead dear death delight desire Donne dost doth Drayton earth echo ring eyes fair Fairy fairy-queen fear fire flowers fools give Golden slumbers gone grace grief hair hath hear heart heaven Heigh-ho Herrick Hey-ho honour keep King kiss leave light little boy lives joy look love's lovers lullaby maids merry Mertilla mind ne'er never Nicholas Breton night numbers nymphs Oberon passion Perigot Perilla Philomel Phyllida pleasure poem poor praise pretty Proserpina Queen Queen Mab quoth roses scorn Shakespeare shepherd shine Sidney sighs sight sing sleep smile song sonnets soul spring stay sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thoughts true love unto wanton weep Whilst Willy wilt wind youth