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... birds do love the spring , Or the bees their careful king : Then in requite , sweet virgin , love me ! Henry Chettle 23 Come live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hills and valleys , dales and fields ...
... birds do love the spring , Or the bees their careful king : Then in requite , sweet virgin , love me ! Henry Chettle 23 Come live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hills and valleys , dales and fields ...
Page 170
... bird as she , To make him all this goodly game Without suspect or jealousy : He were a churl and knew no good Would see her faint for lack of food . Wherefore I sing and ever shall To praise as I have often proved : There is no bird ...
... bird as she , To make him all this goodly game Without suspect or jealousy : He were a churl and knew no good Would see her faint for lack of food . Wherefore I sing and ever shall To praise as I have often proved : There is no bird ...
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... birds did sing , Trees did grow , and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone . She , poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd her breast uptil a thorn , And there sung the dolefull'st ditty , That to hear ...
... birds did sing , Trees did grow , and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone . She , poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd her breast uptil a thorn , And there sung the dolefull'st ditty , That to hear ...
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adieu love Anonymous Astrophel and Stella babe beauty beauty's birds bliss breast breath bright CORYDON Cuckoo dear death delight desire dost doth Drayton earth Edmund Spenser Englands Helicon eyes fair faith fancy fear fire flowers George Peele give golden grace green grief hath heart heaven Henry Constable ibid imitation John Donne John Lyly king kiss lady live Lord Love's lovers lullaby merry Michael Drayton mind mistress mourn never night nightingale nonny nought pain Petrarch PHYLLIDA pity play pleasure poems poetry poets praise pretty Queen Ralegh rest Samuel Daniel scorn shalt shepherd shine Sidney's sighs sing Sir Philip Sidney Sir Walter Ralegh sleep smile songs sonnets sorrow soul Spenser spring summer's swain sweet content tears Tell thee thing Thomas Campion Thomas Lodge thou art thought thy bank true Love unto untrue love verse wanton weep William Shakespeare Wyatt youth