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diff --git a/1546-0.txt b/1546-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d0c0e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/1546-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,273 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1546 *** + + + + +SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC + +by William Shakespeare + + + + +I. + +It was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three, +That liked of her master as well as well might be. +Till looking on an Englishman, the fair'st that eye could see, + Her fancy fell a-turning. +Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love did fight, +To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight; +To put in practice either, alas, it was a spite + Unto the silly damsel! +But one must be refused, more mickle was the pain, +That nothing could be used, to turn them both to gain, +For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain: + Alas, she could not help it! +Thus art, with arms contending, was victor of the day, +Which by a gift of learnlng did bear the maid away; +Then, lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay; + For now my song is ended. + + +II. + +On a day (alack the day!) +Love, whose month was ever May, +Spied a blossom passing fair, +Playing in the wanton air: +Through the velvet leaves the wind, +All unseen, 'gan passage find; +That the lover, sick to death, +Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. +Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; +Air, would I might triumph so! +But, alas! my hand hath sworn +Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: +Vow, alack, for youth unmeet, +Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet, +Thou for whom Jove would swear +Juno but an Ethiope were; +And deny himself for Jove, +Turning mortal for thy love. + + +III. + +My flocks feed not, +My ewes breed not, +My rams speed not, + All is amiss: +Love is dying, +Faith's defying, +Heart's denying, + Causer of this. +All my merry jigs are quite forgot, +All my lady's love is lost, God wot: +Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love, +There a nay is plac'd without remove. +One silly cross +Wrought all my loss; + O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame! +For now I see, +Inconstancy + More in women than in men remain. + +In black mourn I, +All fears scorn I, +Love bath forlorn me, + Living in thrall: +Heart is bleeding, +All help needing, +(O cruel speeding!) + Fraughted with gall. +My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal, +My wether's bell rings doleful knell; +My curtail dog, that wont to have play'd, +Plays not at all, but seems afraid; +With sighs so deep, +Procures to weep, + In howling-wise, to see my doleful plight. +How sighs resound +Through heartless ground, + Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight! + +Clear wells spring not, +Sweet birds sing not, +Green plants bring not + Forth; they die; +Herds stand weeping, +Flocks all sleeping, +Nymphs back peeping + Fearfully. +All our pleasure known to us poor swains, +All our merry meetings on the plains, +All our evening sport from us is fled, +All our love is lost, for Love is dead. +Farewell, sweet lass, +Thy like ne'er was + For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan: +Poor Coridon +Must live alone, +Other help for him I see that there is none. + + +IV. + +When as thine eye hath chose the dame, +And stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike, +Let reason rule things worthy blame, +As well as fancy partial might: + Take counsel of some wiser head, + Neither too young, nor yet unwed. + +And when thou com'st thy tale to tell, +Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk, +Lest she some subtle practice smell, +(A cripple soon can find a halt:) + But plainly say thou lov'st her well, + And set thy person forth to sell. + +What though her frowning brows be bent, +Her cloudy looks will calm ere night; +And then too late she will repent, +That thus dissembled her delight; + And twice desire, ere it be day, + That which with scorn she put away. + +What though she strive to try her strength, +And ban and brawl, and say thee nay, +Her feeble force will yield at length, +When craft hath taught her thus to say: + 'Had women been so strong as men, + In faith, you had not had it then.' + +And to her will frame all thy ways; +Spare not to spend,--and chiefly there +Where thy desert may merit praise, +By ringing in thy lady's ear: + The strongest castle, tower, and town, + The golden bullet beats it down. + +Serve always with assured trust, +And in thy suit be humble, true; +Unless thy lady prove unjust, +Press never thou to choose anew: + When time shall serve, be thou not slack + To proffer, though she put thee back. + +The wiles and guiles that women work, +Dissembled with an outward show, +The tricks and toys that in them lurk, +The cock that treads them shall not know. + Have you not heard it said full oft, + A woman's nay doth stand for naught? + +Think women still to strive with men, +To sin, and never for to saint: +There is no heaven, by holy then, +When time with age doth them attaint. + Were kisses all the joys in bed, + One woman would another wed. + +But, soft! enough,--too much, I fear; +Lest that my mistress hear my song; +She'll not stick to round me i' the ear, +To teach my tongue to be so long: + Yet will she blush, here be it said, + To hear her secrets so bewray'd. + + +V. + +Live with me, and be my love, +And we will all the pleasures prove, +That hills and valleys, dales and fields, +And all the craggy mountains yields. + +There will we sit upon the rocks, +And see the shepherds feed their flocks, +By shallow rivers, by whose falls +Melodious birds sing madrigals. + +There will I make thee a bed of roses, +With a thousand fragrant posies, +A cap of flowers, and a kirtle +Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle. + +A belt of straw and ivy buds, +With coral clasps and amber studs; +And if these pleasures may thee move, +Then live with me and be my love. + + LOVE'S ANSWER. + +If that the world and love were young, +And truth in every shepherd's tongue, +These pretty pleasures might me move +To live with thee and be thy love. + + +VI. + +As it fell upon a day +In the merry month of May, +Sitting in a pleasant shade +Which a grove of myrtles made, +Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, +Trees did grow, and plants did spring; +Everything did banish moan, +Save the nightingale alone: +She, poor bird, as all forlorn, +Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, +And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, +That to hear it was great pity: +Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry; +Teru, teru, by and by: +That to hear her so complain, +Scarce I could from tears refrain; +For her griefs, so lively shown, +Made me think upon mine own. +Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain; +None take pity on thy pain: +Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee; +Ruthless bears, they will not cheer thee. +King Pandion, he is dead; +All thy friends are lapp'd in lead; +All thy fellow-birds do sing, +Careless of thy sorrowing. +Even so, poor bird, like thee, +None alive will pity me. +Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd, +Thou and I were both beguil'd. +Every one that flatters thee +Is no friend in misery. +Words are easy like the wind; +Faithful friends are hard to find. +Every man will be thy friend, +Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; +But if store of crowns be scant, +No man will supply thy want. +If that one be prodigal, +Bountiful they will him call: +And with such-like flattering, +'Pity but he were a king.' +If he be addict to vice, +Quickly him they will entice; +If to women he be bent, +They have at commandement: +But if fortune once do frown, +Then farewell his great renown: +They that fawn'd on him before, +Use his company no more. +He that is thy frend indeed, +He will help thee in thy need; +If thou sorrow, he will weep; +If thou wake, he cannot sleep: +Thus of every grief in heart +He with thee doth bear a part. +These are certain signs to know +Faithful friend from flattering foe. + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1546 *** diff --git a/1546.txt b/1546.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b1a7ec6..0000000 --- a/1546.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,563 +0,0 @@ - -Project Gutenberg Etext of Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music -by Shakespeare -PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works - - -Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check -the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!! - -Please take a look at the important information in this header. -We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an -electronic path open for the next readers. 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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* - - - - -This etext was prepared by the PG Shakespeare Team, -a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers. - - - - - -SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC - -by William Shakespeare - - - - -I. - -It was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three, -That liked of her master as well as well might be. -Till looking on an Englishman, the fair'st that eye could see, - Her fancy fell a-turning. -Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love did fight, -To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight; -To put in practice either, alas, it was a spite - Unto the silly damsel! -But one must be refused, more mickle was the pain, -That nothing could be used, to turn them both to gain, -For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain: - Alas, she could not help it! -Thus art, with arms contending, was victor of the day, -Which by a gift of learnlng did bear the maid away; -Then, lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay; - For now my song is ended. - - -II. - -On a day (alack the day!) -Love, whose month was ever May, -Spied a blossom passing fair, -Playing in the wanton air: -Through the velvet leaves the wind, -All unseen, 'gan passage find; -That the lover, sick to death, -Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. -Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; -Air, would I might triumph so! -But, alas! my hand hath sworn -Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: -Vow, alack, for youth unmeet, -Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet, -Thou for whom Jove would swear -Juno but an Ethiope were; -And deny himself for Jove, -Turning mortal for thy love. - - -III. - -My flocks feed not, -My ewes breed not, -My rams speed not, - All is amiss: -Love is dying, -Faith's defying, -Heart's denying, - Causer of this. -All my merry jigs are quite forgot, -All my lady's love is lost, God wot: -Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love, -There a nay is plac'd without remove. -One silly cross -Wrought all my loss; - O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame! -For now I see, -Inconstancy - More in women than in men remain. - -In black mourn I, -All fears scorn I, -Love bath forlorn me, - Living in thrall: -Heart is bleeding, -All help needing, -(O cruel speeding!) - Fraughted with gall. -My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal, -My wether's bell rings doleful knell; -My curtail dog, that wont to have play'd, -Plays not at all, but seems afraid; -With sighs so deep, -Procures to weep, - In howling-wise, to see my doleful plight. -How sighs resound -Through heartless ground, - Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight! - -Clear wells spring not, -Sweet birds sing not, -Green plants bring not - Forth; they die; -Herds stand weeping, -Flocks all sleeping, -Nymphs back peeping - Fearfully. -All our pleasure known to us poor swains, -All our merry meetings on the plains, -All our evening sport from us is fled, -All our love is lost, for Love is dead. -Farewell, sweet lass, -Thy like ne'er was - For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan: -Poor Coridon -Must live alone, -Other help for him I see that there is none. - - -IV. - -When as thine eye hath chose the dame, -And stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike, -Let reason rule things worthy blame, -As well as fancy partial might: - Take counsel of some wiser head, - Neither too young, nor yet unwed. - -And when thou com'st thy tale to tell, -Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk, -Lest she some subtle practice smell, -(A cripple soon can find a halt:) - But plainly say thou lov'st her well, - And set thy person forth to sell. - -What though her frowning brows be bent, -Her cloudy looks will calm ere night; -And then too late she will repent, -That thus dissembled her delight; - And twice desire, ere it be day, - That which with scorn she put away. - -What though she strive to try her strength, -And ban and brawl, and say thee nay, -Her feeble force will yield at length, -When craft hath taught her thus to say: - 'Had women been so strong as men, - In faith, you had not had it then.' - -And to her will frame all thy ways; -Spare not to spend,--and chiefly there -Where thy desert may merit praise, -By ringing in thy lady's ear: - The strongest castle, tower, and town, - The golden bullet beats it down. - -Serve always with assured trust, -And in thy suit be humble, true; -Unless thy lady prove unjust, -Press never thou to choose anew: - When time shall serve, be thou not slack - To proffer, though she put thee back. - -The wiles and guiles that women work, -Dissembled with an outward show, -The tricks and toys that in them lurk, -The cock that treads them shall not know. - Have you not heard it said full oft, - A woman's nay doth stand for naught? - -Think women still to strive with men, -To sin, and never for to saint: -There is no heaven, by holy then, -When time with age doth them attaint. - Were kisses all the joys in bed, - One woman would another wed. - -But, soft! enough,--too much, I fear; -Lest that my mistress hear my song; -She'll not stick to round me i' the ear, -To teach my tongue to be so long: - Yet will she blush, here be it said, - To hear her secrets so bewray'd. - - -V. - -Live with me, and be my love, -And we will all the pleasures prove, -That hills and valleys, dales and fields, -And all the craggy mountains yields. - -There will we sit upon the rocks, -And see the shepherds feed their flocks, -By shallow rivers, by whose falls -Melodious birds sing madrigals. - -There will I make thee a bed of roses, -With a thousand fragrant posies, -A cap of flowers, and a kirtle -Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle. - -A belt of straw and ivy buds, -With coral clasps and amber studs; -And if these pleasures may thee move, -Then live with me and be my love. - - LOVE'S ANSWER. - -If that the world and love were young, -And truth in every shepherd's tongue, -These pretty pleasures might me move -To live with thee and be thy love. - - -VI. - -As it fell upon a day -In the merry month of May, -Sitting in a pleasant shade -Which a grove of myrtles made, -Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, -Trees did grow, and plants did spring; -Everything did banish moan, -Save the nightingale alone: -She, poor bird, as all forlorn, -Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, -And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, -That to hear it was great pity: -Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry; -Teru, teru, by and by: -That to hear her so complain, -Scarce I could from tears refrain; -For her griefs, so lively shown, -Made me think upon mine own. -Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain; -None take pity on thy pain: -Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee; -Ruthless bears, they will not cheer thee. -King Pandion, he is dead; -All thy friends are lapp'd in lead; -All thy fellow-birds do sing, -Careless of thy sorrowing. -Even so, poor bird, like thee, -None alive will pity me. -Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd, -Thou and I were both beguil'd. -Every one that flatters thee -Is no friend in misery. -Words are easy like the wind; -Faithful friends are hard to find. -Every man will be thy friend, -Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; -But if store of crowns be scant, -No man will supply thy want. -If that one be prodigal, -Bountiful they will him call: -And with such-like flattering, -'Pity but he were a king.' -If he be addict to vice, -Quickly him they will entice; -If to women he be bent, -They have at commandement: -But if fortune once do frown, -Then farewell his great renown: -They that fawn'd on him before, -Use his company no more. -He that is thy frend indeed, -He will help thee in thy need; -If thou sorrow, he will weep; -If thou wake, he cannot sleep: -Thus of every grief in heart -He with thee doth bear a part. -These are certain signs to know -Faithful friend from flattering foe. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music by -Shakespeare -PG has multiple editions of William Shakespeare's Complete Works diff --git a/1546.zip b/1546.zip Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index eacf722..0000000 --- a/1546.zip +++ /dev/null |