summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--.gitattributes3
-rw-r--r--26398-8.txt4502
-rw-r--r--26398-8.zipbin0 -> 45390 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h.zipbin0 -> 940381 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/26398-h.htm4683
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig001.jpgbin0 -> 396630 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig001th.jpgbin0 -> 55942 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig002.jpgbin0 -> 364207 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig002th.jpgbin0 -> 56438 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig003.jpgbin0 -> 5297 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-h/images/fig004.jpgbin0 -> 6910 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/c0001-image1.pngbin0 -> 7359015 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0001-image1.pngbin0 -> 4661373 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0001.pngbin0 -> 6452 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0005-image1.pngbin0 -> 4735604 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0007.pngbin0 -> 120833 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0008.pngbin0 -> 104526 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0009.pngbin0 -> 58811 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0010.pngbin0 -> 58148 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0011.pngbin0 -> 59405 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0012.pngbin0 -> 63532 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0013.pngbin0 -> 57358 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0014.pngbin0 -> 62086 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/f0015.pngbin0 -> 42519 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0001.pngbin0 -> 56783 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0002.pngbin0 -> 66416 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0003.pngbin0 -> 59178 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0004.pngbin0 -> 66999 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0005.pngbin0 -> 47723 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0006.pngbin0 -> 27663 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0007.pngbin0 -> 30280 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0008.pngbin0 -> 30603 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0009.pngbin0 -> 62698 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0010.pngbin0 -> 40591 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0011.pngbin0 -> 70430 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0012.pngbin0 -> 68840 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0013.pngbin0 -> 41273 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0014.pngbin0 -> 72304 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0015.pngbin0 -> 22959 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0016.pngbin0 -> 64501 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0017.pngbin0 -> 51194 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0018.pngbin0 -> 64441 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0019.pngbin0 -> 25848 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0020.pngbin0 -> 67389 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0021.pngbin0 -> 17029 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0022.pngbin0 -> 70130 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0023.pngbin0 -> 31138 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0024.pngbin0 -> 70545 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0025.pngbin0 -> 22285 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0026.pngbin0 -> 54339 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0027.pngbin0 -> 44782 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0028.pngbin0 -> 63197 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0029.pngbin0 -> 37958 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0030.pngbin0 -> 59604 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0031.pngbin0 -> 60837 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0032.pngbin0 -> 78730 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0033.pngbin0 -> 55753 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0034.pngbin0 -> 62455 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0035.pngbin0 -> 64441 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0036.pngbin0 -> 21052 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0037.pngbin0 -> 54319 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0038.pngbin0 -> 63614 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0039.pngbin0 -> 62953 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0040.pngbin0 -> 18005 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0041.pngbin0 -> 62855 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0042.pngbin0 -> 57958 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0043.pngbin0 -> 61493 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0044.pngbin0 -> 21869 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0045.pngbin0 -> 61745 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0046.pngbin0 -> 62903 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0047.pngbin0 -> 58993 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0048.pngbin0 -> 78067 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0049.pngbin0 -> 44603 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0050.pngbin0 -> 69628 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0051.pngbin0 -> 22161 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0052.pngbin0 -> 60975 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0053.pngbin0 -> 58184 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0054.pngbin0 -> 49510 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0055.pngbin0 -> 51770 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0056.pngbin0 -> 39482 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0057.pngbin0 -> 72965 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0058.pngbin0 -> 36916 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0059.pngbin0 -> 62422 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0060.pngbin0 -> 52219 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0061.pngbin0 -> 37672 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0062.pngbin0 -> 58548 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0063.pngbin0 -> 34916 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0064.pngbin0 -> 67500 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0065.pngbin0 -> 25047 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0066.pngbin0 -> 36759 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0067.pngbin0 -> 66577 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0068.pngbin0 -> 18639 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0069.pngbin0 -> 70704 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0070.pngbin0 -> 27262 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0071.pngbin0 -> 37540 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0072.pngbin0 -> 37126 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0073.pngbin0 -> 37645 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0074.pngbin0 -> 47468 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0075.pngbin0 -> 63192 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0076.pngbin0 -> 43949 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0077.pngbin0 -> 58811 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0078.pngbin0 -> 30345 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0079.pngbin0 -> 46162 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0080.pngbin0 -> 58612 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0081.pngbin0 -> 35080 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0082.pngbin0 -> 37517 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0083.pngbin0 -> 60750 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0084.pngbin0 -> 43898 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0085.pngbin0 -> 63223 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0086.pngbin0 -> 38741 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0087.pngbin0 -> 55504 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0088.pngbin0 -> 42818 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0089.pngbin0 -> 43737 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0090.pngbin0 -> 39767 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0091.pngbin0 -> 35659 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0092.pngbin0 -> 51040 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0093.pngbin0 -> 31579 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0094.pngbin0 -> 45430 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0095.pngbin0 -> 56245 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0096.pngbin0 -> 37757 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0097.pngbin0 -> 54176 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0098.pngbin0 -> 54655 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0099.pngbin0 -> 46585 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0100.pngbin0 -> 35291 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0101.pngbin0 -> 48070 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0102.pngbin0 -> 53541 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0103.pngbin0 -> 58672 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0104.pngbin0 -> 41259 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0105.pngbin0 -> 64825 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0106.pngbin0 -> 63816 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0107.pngbin0 -> 47123 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0108.pngbin0 -> 62632 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0109.pngbin0 -> 15218 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0110.pngbin0 -> 67568 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0111.pngbin0 -> 44418 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0112.pngbin0 -> 48669 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0113.pngbin0 -> 48357 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0114.pngbin0 -> 50380 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0115.pngbin0 -> 49678 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0116.pngbin0 -> 50524 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0117.pngbin0 -> 36779 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0118.pngbin0 -> 51388 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0119.pngbin0 -> 36696 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0120.pngbin0 -> 42197 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0121.pngbin0 -> 54256 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0122.pngbin0 -> 56451 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0123.pngbin0 -> 39715 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0124.pngbin0 -> 45527 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0125.pngbin0 -> 41173 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0126.pngbin0 -> 72123 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0127.pngbin0 -> 44870 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0128.pngbin0 -> 42041 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0129.pngbin0 -> 35674 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0130.pngbin0 -> 47118 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0131.pngbin0 -> 37954 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0132.pngbin0 -> 48942 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0133.pngbin0 -> 57734 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0134.pngbin0 -> 51485 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0135.pngbin0 -> 58325 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0136.pngbin0 -> 6290 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0137.pngbin0 -> 63428 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0138.pngbin0 -> 64912 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0139.pngbin0 -> 69566 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0140.pngbin0 -> 47778 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0141.pngbin0 -> 76653 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/p0142.pngbin0 -> 41287 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398-page-images/q0001.pngbin0 -> 26406 bytes
-rw-r--r--26398.txt4502
-rw-r--r--26398.zipbin0 -> 45348 bytes
-rw-r--r--LICENSE.txt11
-rw-r--r--README.md2
171 files changed, 13703 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6833f05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+* text=auto
+*.txt text
+*.md text
diff --git a/26398-8.txt b/26398-8.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..931e5b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-8.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4502 @@
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
+
+Author: Various
+
+Editor: J. Potter Briscoe
+
+Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26398]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +--------------------------------------------------------+
+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES |
+ | |
+ | Small discrepancies in punctuation between the Table |
+ | of Contents and poem titles have been retained. |
+ | |
+ | "Cherry Ripe" and "Julia" are on pages 91 and 90 |
+ | respectively, rather than on pages 90 and 91 as listed |
+ | in the Table of Contents. |
+ | |
+ | John Dowland's poem is titled "True till death" in the |
+ | Table of Contents, but is titled "Love's constancy" |
+ | on page 95. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------------+
+
+_[Illustration]_
+
+[Illustration: TUDOR
+AND
+STUART
+LOVE
+SONGS
+
+COLLECTED BY
+J. POTTER BRISCOE]
+
+
+
+
+TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS
+
+SELECTED AND EDITED BY
+
+J. POTTER BRISCOE, F.R.S.L.
+Editor of "The Bibelots"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+E. P. DUTTON AND CO.
+31 W. 23^RD STREET
+NEW YORK
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the
+sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of
+means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of
+making themselves acquainted with the politics, social life, literature,
+art, science, and commerce of the various nations of the same,
+especially of France, Spain, and Italy. These young Englishmen on their
+return introduced into the society in which they mixed not only the
+politenesses of these countries, but the wit of Italy, and the character
+of the poetry which was then in vogue in Southern Europe. Among these
+travellers during the reign of Henry the Eighth were Sir Thomas Wyatt
+and the Earl of Surrey. These courtiers possessed the poetical faculty,
+and therefore paid special attention to literary form. As a result they
+introduced the Sonnet of the Petrarchan type into England. The amorous
+verse of the inhabitants of these sunny climes took hold of the young
+Englishmen. Many men of rank and education, who did not regard
+themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it
+being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. During
+the reign of "Good Queen Bess" England was full of song. Of the writers
+of love verses William Watson occupied a very high, probably the
+highest, position during the time of Elizabeth. A glance at the Table of
+Contents of this volume will show that some of the best poets who were
+born between the years 1503 and 1679 have handed down to us poetical
+contributions of this character.
+
+Of the Elizabethan amatory verses only a small portion has been
+transmitted to us. That which possessed least literary merit did not
+long survive, and, no doubt, some of considerable merit has been lost
+too. The best has been preserved. Selections from these, arranged in
+chronological order, appear in this anthology. Richard Tottel printed
+his "Miscellany" in 1557. It is to this work, and to Richard Edwards'
+"Paradise of Dainty Devices," issued nineteen years later, that much of
+the best poetical literature of the sixteenth century has come down to
+us. The first-named passed through eight editions during thirty years:
+the last issue being dated 1587.
+
+From the amatory verses produced by seventy-one writers during the reign
+of Henry the Eighth and down to those of the early Georges one hundred
+and thirteen appear in this love anthology. The limitation of space
+prevents further biographical particulars being given than the years of
+birth and death, which will be found in the Table of Contents. As
+writers do not always agree in this respect, "The Dictionary of National
+Biography" has been taken as the authority.
+
+Whatever labour has been bestowed on the preparation of this anthology
+has not been in bulking it out to its present dimensions, but rather in
+keeping it within the prescribed limits; and, at the same time,
+furnishing these best examples of the love verses of the numerous
+authors who have been requisitioned for the purpose of this volume of
+"Tudor and Stuart Love Songs."
+
+J. P. B.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+ Page
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).
+ The lost heart 1
+ The lover's appeal 2
+
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547).
+ A sonnet--"Love that liveth," etc. 3
+ A vow to love faithfully 4
+
+
+Anon., _circa_ 1530.
+ My sweet sweeting 5
+
+
+George Turberville (1540?-1610?).
+ The lover to his lady 6
+ Master George: his sonnet 7
+ Turberville's answer and distich 8
+
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
+ The shepherd's commendation of his nymph 9
+ A renunciation 11
+
+
+Barnaby Googe (?) (1535?-1594).
+ The complaint of Harpalus 12
+
+
+George Gascoigne (1525-1577).
+ A strange passion of a lover 14
+
+
+Sir Edward Dyer ( -1607).
+ To Phyllis, the fair shepherdess 16
+
+
+George Peele (1558?-1596-1597?).
+ The enamoured shepherd 17
+
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618).
+ His love admits no rival 18
+ The shepherd's description of love 20
+ The shepherdess' reply 22
+
+
+Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628).
+ Love for love 24
+
+
+John Lyly (1554?-1606).
+ Cupid and Campaspe: Apelles' song 26
+
+
+Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
+ A ditty--"My true love," etc. 27
+ Love is dead 28
+ He that loves 30
+
+
+Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625).
+ Love's wantonness 31
+ Rosaline 32
+
+
+Thomas Watson (1557?-1592?).
+ The May Queen 34
+
+
+Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626?).
+ Phillida and Corydon 35
+
+
+Thomas Campion (_circa_ 1619).
+ Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? 37
+ Cherry-ripe 38
+
+
+Robert Greene (1560?-1592).
+ Fair Samela 39
+ Kinds of love 41
+ Love and beauty 42
+
+
+Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).
+ Love's servile lot 43
+
+
+Sir John Harrington (1561-1612).
+ The heart of stone 45
+
+
+Henry Constable (1561-1613).
+ A shepherd's song to his love 46
+
+
+Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
+ Love now, for roses fade 47
+ Early love 48
+ Love is a sickness 49
+
+
+Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
+ The passionate shepherd to his love 50
+
+
+Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).
+ Love's omnipresence 52
+
+
+Michael Drayton (1563-1631).
+ A parting, or Love's last chance 53
+
+
+William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
+ Who is Silvia? 54
+ Sigh no more, ladies 55
+ A morning song for Imogen 56
+
+
+Anon. (_circa_ 1564).
+ The unfaithful shepherdess 57
+
+
+Anon.
+ True loveliness 59
+ A woman's reason 61
+ Love will find out the way 62
+ Phillida flouts me 64
+ In praise of two 66
+
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638).
+ To his forsaken mistress 67
+ On women's inconstancy 69
+
+
+Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627).
+ The three states of women 71
+ My love and I must part 72
+
+
+Ben Jonson (1573?-1637).
+ Perfect beauty 73
+ To Celia 74
+
+
+Dr. John Donne (1573-1631).
+ A woman's constancy 75
+ Sweetest love 76
+
+
+William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640).
+ To Aurora 77
+
+
+William Drummond (1585-1649).
+ Phillis 78
+
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher (1584-1616; 1579-1625).
+ Take those lips away 79
+
+
+Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).
+ Tell me what is love 80
+ Pining for love 81
+ Fie on love 82
+
+
+John Wootton (_circa_ 1600).
+ Damoetas' praise of his Daphnis 83
+
+
+George Wither (1588-1667).
+ Shall I, wasting in despair 85
+
+
+Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?).
+ To one who, when I praised my mistress'
+ beauty, said I was blind 87
+ He that loves a rosy cheek 88
+
+
+Nathaniel Field (1587- ).
+ Matin song 89
+
+
+Robert Herrick (1591-1674).
+ Cherry ripe 90
+ Julia 91
+ To the virgins 92
+ To Electra 93
+
+
+Bp. Henry King (1592-1669).
+ Dry those eyes 94
+
+
+John Dowland (ed.) (1563?-1626?).
+ True till death 95
+
+
+Thomas Weelkes (ed.) (1597- ?).
+ Farewell, my joy 96
+
+
+Sir William Davenant (1605-1606-1668).
+ The lark now leaves 97
+
+
+Edmund Waller (1606-1687).
+ Go, lovely rose! 98
+
+
+Thomas Randolph (1605-1635).
+ His mistress 99
+
+
+Henry Vaughan (1622-1695).
+ Chloris 100
+
+
+Anon. (_circa_ 1610).
+ Love me little, love me long 101
+
+
+Capt. Tobias Hume (musical composer).
+ Fain would I change that note 102
+
+
+William Habington.
+ To roses in Castara's breast 103
+
+
+John Danyel (1604?-1625?).
+ Thou pretty bird 104
+
+
+Anon. (_temp._ James I.).
+ Once I lov'd a maiden fair 105
+
+
+Sir John Suckling (1609-1642).
+ I pr'ythee send me back my heart 106
+ Orsame's song--"Why so pale," etc. 107
+
+
+Thomas Ford, composer (1607?-1648).
+ Since first I saw your face 108
+
+
+Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).
+ The given heart 110
+
+
+Sir Edward Sherburne (1618-1702).
+ Ice and fire 111
+
+
+Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).
+ Amarantha 112
+ To Althea, from prison 113
+
+
+Alexander Brome (1620-1666).
+ A mock song 114
+
+
+Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).
+ Speaking and kissing 115
+
+
+Sir George Etherege (1635?-1691).
+ Ladies' conquering eyes 116
+
+
+Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706).
+ Dorinda 117
+
+
+Robert Gould ( -1709?).
+ Celia and Sylvia 118
+
+
+Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701).
+ True love 119
+
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).
+ Too late! 120
+ My mistress' heart 121
+ Constancy 122
+
+
+Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718).
+ Man and woman 123
+
+
+Matthew Prior (1664-1721).
+ Accept my heart 124
+
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).
+ An angelic woman 125
+ I smile at love 126
+
+
+George Granville (1667-1735).
+ Adieu l'amour 127
+
+
+William Congreve (1670-1729).
+ Sabina wakes 128
+ Inconstancy 129
+
+
+Ambrose Philips (1675?-1709).
+ Love and hate 130
+
+
+John Oldmixon (1673-1742).
+ I lately vowed 131
+
+
+Dr. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
+ Few happy matches 132
+
+
+John Hughes (1677-1720).
+ Dorinda's conquest 133
+
+
+George Farquhar (1678-1707).
+ Lovers in disguise 134
+
+
+Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).
+ When thy beauty appears 135
+
+
+
+
+LOVE VERSES
+ OF THE TUDOR &
+ STUART PERIODS.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOST HEART.
+
+
+ Help me to seek! For I lost it there;
+ And, if that ye have found it, ye that be here,
+ And seek to convey it secretly,
+ Handle it soft and treat it tenderly,
+ Or else it will 'plain, and then appair.
+ But pray restore it mannerly,
+ Since that I do ask it thus honestly;
+ For to lose it, it sitteth me near;
+ Help me to seek!
+
+ Alas, and is there no remedy?
+ But have I thus lost it wilfully?
+ I-wis, it was a thing all too dear
+ To be bestowed, and wist not where!
+ It was mine heart! I pray you heartily
+ Help me to seek!
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOVER'S APPEAL.
+
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay! for shame,
+ To save thee from the blame
+ Of all my grief and grame.
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ That hath loved thee so long
+ In wealth and woe among:
+ And is thy heart so strong
+ As for to leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ That hath given thee my heart
+ Never for to depart
+ Neither for pain nor smart:
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ And have no more pity
+ Of him that loveth thee?
+ Alas! thy cruelty!
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt.
+
+
+
+
+A SONNET.
+
+
+ Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought,
+ That built his seat within my captive breast,
+ Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought,
+ Oft in my face he doth his banner rest:
+ She that me taught to love and suffer pain,
+ My doubtful hope and eke my hot desire
+ With shamefaced cloak to shadow and restrain,
+ Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire:
+ And coward Love then to the heart apace
+ Taketh his flight, whereas he lurks and plains
+ His purpose lost, and dare not show his face.
+ For my lord's guilt, thus faultless, bide I pains:
+ Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove;
+ Sweet is his death that takes his end by love!
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
+
+
+
+
+A VOW TO LOVE FAITHFULLY HOWSOEVER HE BE REWARDED.
+
+
+ Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green,
+ Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice,
+ In temperate heat where he is felt and seen,
+ In presence pressed of people mad or wise,
+ Set me in high, or yet in low degree,
+ In longest night, or in the shortest day,
+ In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be,
+ In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray,
+ Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell,
+ In hill or dale, or in the foaming flood,
+ Thrall, or at large, alive whereso I dwell,
+ Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good:
+ Hers will I be, and only with this thought
+ Content myself, although my chance be nought.
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
+
+
+
+
+MY SWEET SWEETING.
+
+
+ Ah, my sweet sweeting!
+ My little pretty sweeting,
+ My sweeting will I love wherever I go:
+ She is so proper and pure,
+ Full steadfast, stable, and demure,
+ There is none such, you may be sure,
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+ In all this world, as thinketh me,
+ Is none so pleasant to my eye,
+ That I am glad so oft to see
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+ When I behold my sweeting sweet,
+ Her face, her hands, her mignon feet,
+ They seem to me there is none so sweet
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+Anon., circa 1530.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOVER TO HIS LADY.
+
+
+ My girl, thou gazest much
+ Upon the golden skies:
+ Would _I_ were Heaven! I would behold
+ Thee then with all mine eyes!
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+MASTER GEORGE: HIS SONNET OF THE PAINS OF LOVE.
+
+
+ Two lines shall tell the grief
+ That I by love sustain:
+ I burn, I flame, I faint, I freeze,
+ Of Hell I feel the pain.
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+TURBERVILLE'S ANSWER AND DISTICH TO THE SAME.
+
+
+ Two lines shall teach you how
+ To purchase love anew:
+ Let reason rule, where Love did reign,
+ And idle thoughts eschew.
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH.
+
+
+ What shepherd can express
+ The favour of her face
+ To whom, in this distress,
+ I do appeal for grace?
+ A thousand Cupids fly
+ About her gentle eye;
+
+ From which each throws a dart,
+ That kindleth soft sweet fire
+ Within my sighing heart,
+ Possessed by desire:
+ No sweeter life I try
+ Than in her love to die!
+
+ The lily in the field,
+ That glories in his white,
+ For pureness now must yield
+ And render up his right;
+ Heaven pictured in her face
+ Doth promise joy and grace.
+
+ Fair Cynthia's silver light,
+ That beats on running streams,
+ Compares not with her white,
+ Whose hairs are all sunbeams:
+ So bright my Nymph doth shine
+ As day unto my eyne!
+
+ With this, there is a red,
+ Exceeds the damask-rose,
+ Which in her cheeks is spread,
+ Where every favour grows;
+ In sky there is no star,
+ But she surmounts it far.
+
+ When Phoebus from the bed
+ Of Thetis doth arise,
+ The morning, blushing red,
+ In fair carnation-wise,
+ He shows in my Nymph's face,
+ As Queen of every grace.
+
+ This pleasant lily-white,
+ This taint of roseate red,
+ This Cynthia's silver light,
+ This sweet fair Dea spread,
+ These sunbeams in mine eye,
+ These beauties, make me die!
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.
+
+
+
+
+A RENUNCIATION.
+
+
+ If women could be fair, and yet not fond,
+ Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
+ I would not marvel that they make men bond
+ By service long to purchase their good will;
+ But when I see how frail those creatures are,
+ I muse that men forget themselves so far.
+
+ To mark the choice they make, and how they change,
+ How oft from Phoebus they do flee to Pan;
+ Unsettled still, like haggards wild they range,
+ These gentle birds that fly from man to man;
+ Who would not scorn and shake them from the fist,
+ And let them fly, fair fools, which way they list?
+
+ Yet for disport we fawn and flatter both,
+ To pass the time when nothing else can please,
+ And train them to our lure with subtle oath,
+ Till, weary of their wiles, ourselves we ease;
+ And then we say when we their fancy try,
+ To play with fools, O what a fool was I!
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLAINT OF HARPALUS.
+
+
+ Phylida was a fair maid
+ And fresh as any flower,
+ Whom Harpalus the herdman prayed
+ To be his paramour.
+ Harpalus and eke Corin
+ Were herdmen, both yfere;
+ And Phylida could twist and spin,
+ And thereto sing full clear.
+ But Phylida was all too coy
+ For Harpalus to win;
+ For Corin was her only joy,
+ Who forced her not a pin.
+ How often would she flowers twine,
+ How often garlands make,
+ Of cowslips and of columbine,
+ And all for Corin's sake!
+ But Corin, he had hawks to lure,
+ And forcèd more the field;
+ Of lovers' law he took no cure,
+ For once he was beguiled.
+ Harpalus prevailèd nought;
+ His labour all was lost;
+ For he was farthest from her thoughts,
+ And yet he loved her most.
+ Therefore waxed he both pale and lean,
+ And dry as clot of clay;
+ His flesh it was consumèd clean,
+ His colour gone away....
+ His beasts he kept upon the hill,
+ And he sate in the dale;
+ And thus, with sighs and sorrows shrill,
+ He gan to tell his tale.
+ "O Harpalus,"--thus would he say--
+ "Unhappiest under sun,
+ The cause of thine unhappy day
+ By love was first begun!...
+ O Cupid, grant this my request,
+ And do not stop thine ears,
+ That she may feel within her breast
+ The pains of my despairs!
+ Of Corin that is careless,
+ That she may crave her fee,
+ As I have done in great distress,
+ That loved her faithfully!" ...
+
+Barnaby Googe (?).
+
+
+
+
+A STRANGE PASSION OF A LOVER.
+
+
+ Amid my bale I bathe in bliss,
+ I swim in Heaven, I sink in hell:
+ I find amends for every miss,
+ And yet my moan no tongue can tell.
+ I live and love (what would you more?)
+ As never lover lived before.
+
+ I laugh sometimes with little lust,
+ So jest I oft and feel no joy;
+ Mine eye is builded all on trust,
+ And yet mistrust breeds mine annoy.
+ I live and lack, I lack and have;
+ I have and miss the thing I crave.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Then like the lark that passed the night
+ In heavy sleep with cares oppressed;
+ Yet when she spies the pleasant light,
+ She sends sweet notes from out her breast;
+ So sing I now because I think
+ How joys approach when sorrows shrink.
+
+ And as fair Philomene again
+ Can watch and sing when others sleep;
+ And taketh pleasure in her pain,
+ To wray the woe that makes her weep;
+ So sing I now for to bewray
+ The loathsome life I lead alway.
+
+ The which to thee, dear wench, I write,
+ Thou know'st my mirth but not my moan;
+ I pray God grant thee deep delight,
+ To live in joys when I am gone.
+ I cannot live; it will not be:
+ I die to think to part from thee.
+
+George Gascoigne.
+
+
+
+
+TO PHYLLIS, THE FAIR SHEPHERDESS.
+
+
+ My Phyllis hath the morning sun
+ At first to look upon her:
+ And Phyllis hath morn-waking birds
+ Her rising still to honour.
+ My Phyllis hath prime feathered flowers
+ That smile when she treads on them:
+ And Phyllis hath a gallant flock
+ That leaps since she doth own them.
+ But Phyllis hath too hard a heart,
+ Alas, that she should have it!
+ It yields no mercy to desert
+ Nor peace to those that crave it.
+ Sweet Sun, when thou look'st on,
+ Pray her regard my moan!
+ Sweet birds, when you sing to her,
+ To yield some pity woo her!
+ Sweet flowers, that she treads on,
+ Tell her, her beauty dreads one;
+ And if in life her love she'll not agree me,
+ Pray her before I die, she will come see me.
+
+Sir Edward Dyer.
+
+
+
+
+THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD.
+
+
+ O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed!
+ Thou mak'st my heart
+ A bloody mark,
+ With piercing shot to bleed.
+
+ Shoot soft, sweet Love! for fear thou shoot amiss,
+ For fear too keen
+ Thy arrows been,
+ And hit the heart where my Belovèd is.
+
+ Too fair that fortune were, nor never I
+ Shall be so blest,
+ Among the rest,
+ That Love shall seize on her by sympathy.
+
+ Then since with Love my prayers bear no boot,
+ This doth remain
+ To cease my pain:
+ I take the wound, and die at Venus' foot.
+
+George Peele.
+
+
+
+
+HIS LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.
+
+
+ Shall I like a hermit dwell,
+ On a rock, or in a cell,
+ Calling home the smallest part
+ That is missing of my heart,
+ To bestow it where I may
+ Meet a rival every day?
+ If she undervalue me,
+ What care I how fair she be?
+
+ Were her tresses angel gold,
+ If a stranger may be bold,
+ Unrebuked, unafraid,
+ To convert them to a braid,
+ And with little more ado
+ Work them into bracelets too?
+ If the mine be grown so free,
+ What care I how rich it be?
+
+ Were her hand as rich a prize
+ As her hairs, or precious eyes,
+ If she lay them out to take
+ Kisses, for good manners' sake:
+ And let every lover skip
+ From her hand unto her lip;
+ If she seem not chaste to me,
+ What care I how chaste she be?
+
+ No; she must be perfect snow,
+ In effect as well as show;
+ Warming, but as snowballs do,
+ Not like fire, by burning too;
+ But when she by change hath got
+ To her heart a second lot,
+ Then if others share with me,
+ Farewell her, whate'er she be!
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE.
+
+
+ "Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell!"--
+ It is that fountain, and that well,
+ Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
+ It is, perhaps, that passing bell
+ That tolls us all to heaven or hell;
+ And this is love, as I heard tell.
+
+ "Yet, what is love? good shepherd, saine!"--
+ It is a sunshine mix'd with rain;
+ It is a toothache, or like pain;
+ It is a game where none doth gain:
+ The lass saith No, and would full fain!
+ And this is love, as I hear saine.
+
+ "Yet, shepherd, what is love, I pray?"--
+ It is a "Yea," it is a "Nay,"
+ A pretty kind of sporting fray;
+ It is a thing will soon away;
+ Then, nymphs, take vantage while ye may,
+ And this is love, as I hear say.
+
+ "Yet what is love? good shepherd, show!"--
+ A thing that creeps, it cannot go,
+ A prize that passeth to and fro,
+ A thing for one, a thing for moe;
+ And he that proves shall find it so;
+ And, shepherd, this is love, I trow.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERDESS'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD.
+
+
+ If all 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.
+
+ But time drives flocks from field to fold,
+ When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold;
+ Then Philomel becometh dumb,
+ The rest complains of cares to come.
+
+ The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
+ To wayward winter reckoning yields;
+ A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
+ Is fancy's spring: but sorrow's fall.
+
+ Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses,
+ Thy cup, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
+ Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten;--
+ In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
+
+ The belt of straw and ivy-buds,
+ Thy coral clasps and amber studs,--
+ All these in me no means can move,
+ To come to thee, and be thy love.
+
+ What should we talk of dainties, then,
+ Of better meat than's fit for men?
+ These are but vain: that's only good
+ Which God hath bless'd and sent for food.
+
+ But could youth last, and love still breed;
+ Had joys no date, nor age no need;
+ Then those delights my mind might move,
+ To live with thee, and be thy love.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+[See "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," page 50.]
+
+
+
+
+LOVE FOR LOVE.
+
+
+ Away with these self-loving lads
+ Whom Cupid's arrow never glads!
+ Away, poor souls, that sigh and weep,
+ In love of them that lie and sleep!
+ For Cupid is a merry god,
+ And forceth none to kiss the rod.
+
+ Sweet Cupid's shafts, like Destiny,
+ Do causeless good or ill decree;
+ Desert is borne out of his bow,
+ Reward upon his wing doth go:
+ What fools are they that have not known
+ That Love likes no laws but his own!
+
+ My songs, they be of Cynthia's praise:
+ I wear her rings on holy days;
+ On every tree I write her name,
+ And every day I read the same:
+ Where Honour Cupid's rival is,
+ There miracles are seen of his.
+
+ If Cynthia crave her ring of me,
+ I blot her name out of the tree;
+ If doubt do darken things held dear,
+ Then "farewell nothing," once a year:
+ For many run, but one must win;
+ Fools only hedge the cuckoo in.
+
+ The worth that worthiness should move
+ Is love, which is the due of love;
+ And love as well the shepherd can
+ As can the mighty nobleman:--
+ Sweet nymph, 'tis true, you worthy be;
+ Yet, without love, nought worth to me.
+
+Fulke-Greville, Lord Brooke.
+
+
+
+
+CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE: APELLES' SONG.
+
+
+ Cupid and my Campaspe played
+ At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.
+ He stakes his quiver, bows and arrows,
+ His mother's doves and team of sparrows;
+ Loses them too; then down he throws
+ The coral of his lip, the rose
+ Growing on 's cheek, but none knows how;
+ With these the crystal of his brow,
+ And then the dimple of his chin--
+ All these did my Campaspe win.
+ At last he set her both his eyes.--
+ She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
+ O Love, has she done this to thee?
+ What shall, alas! become of me?
+
+John Lyly.
+
+
+
+
+A DITTY.
+
+
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
+ By just exchange one to the other given:
+ I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
+ There never was a better bargain driven:
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
+
+ His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
+ My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
+ He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
+ I cherish his because in me it bides:
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE IS DEAD.
+
+
+ Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread;
+ For Love is dead:
+ All Love is dead, infected
+ With plague of deep disdain:
+ Worth, as nought worth, rejected,
+ And Faith fair scorn doth gain.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Weep, neighbours, weep; do you not hear it said
+ That Love is dead?
+ His death-bed, peacock's folly;
+ His winding-sheet is shame;
+ His will, false-seeming holy;
+ His sole executor, blame.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Let dirge be sung, and trentals rightly read,
+ For Love is dead;
+ Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth
+ My mistress' marble heart;
+ Which epitaph containeth,
+ _Her eyes were once his dart_.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Alas, I lie; rage hath this error bred;
+ Love is not dead;
+ Love is not dead, but sleepeth
+ In his unmatchèd mind,
+ Where she his counsel keepeth,
+ Till due deserts she find:
+ Therefore from so vile fancy,
+ To call such wit a franzy,
+ Who Love can temper thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+HE THAT LOVES.
+
+
+ He that loves and fears to try,
+ Learns his mistress to deny.
+ Doth she chide thee? 'tis to show it
+ That thy coldness makes her do it.
+ Is she silent, is she mute?
+ Silence fully grants thy suit.
+ Doth she pout and leave the room?
+ Then she goes to bid thee come.
+
+ Is she sick? why then be sure
+ She invites thee to the cure.
+ Doth she cross thy suit with "No"?
+ Tush! she loves to hear thee woo.
+ Doth she call the faith of men
+ In question? nay, she loves thee then,
+ And if e'er she makes a blot,
+ She's lost if that thou hit'st her not.
+
+ He that after ten denials
+ Doth attempt no further trials,
+ Hath no warrant to acquire
+ The dainties of his chaste desire.
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S WANTONNESS.
+
+
+ Love guards the roses of thy lips,
+ And flies about them like a bee:
+ If I approach, he forward skips,
+ And if I kiss, he stingeth me.
+ Love in thine eyes doth build his bower,
+ And sleeps within their pretty shine;
+ And if I look, the boy will lower,
+ And from their orbs shoot shafts divine.
+ Love works thy heart within his fire,
+ And in my tears doth firm the same;
+ And if I tempt, it will retire,
+ And of my plaints doth make a game.
+ Love, let me cull her choicest flowers,
+ And pity me, and calm her eye;
+ Make soft her heart, dissolve her lowers,
+ Then will I praise thy deity,
+ But if thou do not, Love, I'll truly serve her
+ In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her.
+
+Thomas Lodge.
+
+
+
+
+ROSALINE.
+
+
+ Like to the clear in highest sphere
+ Where all imperial glory shines,
+ Of selfsame colour is her hair
+ Whether unfolded, or in twines:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Her eyes are sapphires set in snow,
+ Resembling heaven by every wink;
+ The Gods do fear whenas they glow,
+ And I do tremble when I think
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
+ That beautifies Aurora's face,
+ Or like the silver crimson shroud
+ That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace;
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Her lips are like two budded roses
+ Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh,
+ Within which bounds she balm encloses
+ Apt to entice a deity:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Her neck is like a stately tower
+ Where Love himself imprison'd lies,
+ To watch for glances every hour
+ From her divine and sacred eyes:
+ Heigh ho, for Rosaline!
+ Her paps are centres of delight,
+ Her breasts are orbs of heavenly frame,
+ Where Nature moulds the dew of light
+ To feed perfection with the same:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ With orient pearl, with ruby red,
+ With marble white, with sapphire blue
+ Her body every way is fed,
+ Yet soft in touch and sweet in view:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Nature herself her shape admires;
+ The Gods are wounded in her sight;
+ And Love forsakes his heavenly fires
+ And at her eyes his brand doth light:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan
+ The absence of fair Rosaline,
+ Since for a fair there's fairer none,
+ Nor for her virtues so divine:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline;
+ Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!
+
+Thomas Lodge.
+
+
+
+
+THE MAY QUEEN.
+
+
+ With fragrant flowers we strew the way,
+ And make this our chief holiday;
+ For though this clime were blest of yore,
+ Yet was it never proud before.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeignèd joy!
+
+ Now th' air is sweeter than sweet balm,
+ And satyrs dance about the palm;
+ Now earth, with verdure newly dight,
+ Gives perfect signs of her delight.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeignèd joy!
+
+ Now birds recall new harmony,
+ And trees do whistle melody;
+ Now everything that nature breeds,
+ Doth clad itself in pleasant weeds.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeignèd joy!
+
+Thomas Watson.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.
+
+
+ In the merry month of May,
+ In a morn by break of day,
+ With a troop of damsels playing,
+ Forth I rode, forsooth, a-maying,
+ When anon by a woodside,
+ Where as May was in his pride,
+ I espied, all alone,
+ Phillida and Corydon.
+
+ Much ado there was, God wot!
+ He would love, and she would not:
+ She said, never man was true:
+ He said, none was false to you.
+ He said, he had loved her long:
+ She said, love should have no wrong.
+
+ Corydon would kiss her then,
+ She said, maids must kiss no men,
+ Till they do for good and all;
+ Then she made the shepherd call
+ All the heavens to witness truth,
+ Never loved a truer youth.
+
+ Thus with many a pretty oath,
+ Yea, and nay, and faith and troth,
+ Such as silly shepherds use
+ When they will not love abuse;
+ Love, which had been long deluded,
+ Was with kisses sweet concluded:
+ And Phillida with garlands gay,
+ Was made the lady of the May.
+
+Richard Breton.
+
+
+
+
+SHALL I COME, SWEET LOVE?
+
+
+ Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee
+ When the evening beams are set?
+ Shall I not excluded be,
+ Will you find no feigned let?
+ Let me not, for pity, more
+ Tell the long hours at your door.
+
+ Who can tell what thief or foe,
+ In the covert of the night,
+ For his prey will work my woe,
+ Or through wicked foul despite?
+ So may I die unredrest
+ Ere my long love be possest.
+
+ But to let such dangers pass,
+ Which a lover's thoughts disdain,
+ 'Tis enough in such a place
+ To attend love's joys in vain:
+ Do not mock me in thy bed,
+ While these cold nights freeze me dead.
+
+Thomas Campion.
+
+
+
+
+CHERRY-RIPE.
+
+
+ There is a garden in her face
+ Where roses and white lilies blow;
+ A heavenly paradise that place,
+ Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
+ There cherries grow that none may buy,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+ Those cherries fairly do enclose
+ Of orient pearl a double row,
+ Which when her lovely laughter shows,
+ They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow.
+ Yet them no peer nor prince may buy,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+ Her eyes like angels watch them still;
+ Her brows like bended bows do stand,
+ Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
+ All that approach with eye or hand
+ These sacred cherries to come nigh,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+Thomas Campion.
+
+
+
+
+FAIR SAMELA.
+
+
+ Like to Diana in her summer weed,
+ Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
+ Goes fair Samela;
+
+ Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed,
+ When wash'd by Arethusa's fount they lie,
+ Is fair Samela;
+
+ As fair Aurora in her morning gray,
+ Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love,
+ Is fair Samela;
+
+ Like lovely Thetis on a calmèd day,
+ Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move,
+ Shines fair Samela;
+
+ Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams,
+ Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory
+ Of fair Samela;
+
+ Her cheeks, like rose and lily, yield forth gleams,
+ Her brows, bright arches fram'd of ebony;
+ Thus fair Samela
+
+ Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue,
+ And Juno in the show of majesty,
+ (For she's Samela!)
+
+ Pallas in wit,--all three, if you well view,
+ For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity
+ Yield to Samela.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+KINDS OF LOVE.
+
+
+ Foolish love is only folly;
+ Wanton love is too unholy;
+ Greedy love is covetous;
+ Idle love is frivolous;
+ But the gracious love is it
+ That doth prove the work of wit.
+
+ Beauty but deceives the eye;
+ Flattery leads the ear awry;
+ Wealth doth but enchant the wit;
+ Want, the overthrow of it;
+ While in Wisdom's worthy grace,
+ Virtue sees the sweetest face.
+
+ There hath Love found out his life,
+ Peace without all thought of strife;
+ Kindness in Discretion's care;
+ Truth, that clearly doth declare
+ Faith doth in true fancy prove,
+ Lust the excrements of Love.
+
+ Then in faith may fancy see
+ How my love may construèd be;
+ How it grows and what it seeks;
+ How it lives and what it likes;
+ So in highest grace regard it,
+ Or in lowest scorn discard it.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE AND BEAUTY.
+
+
+ Pretty twinkling starry eyes,
+ How did Nature first devise
+ Such a sparkling in your sight
+ As to give Love such delight,
+ As to make him like a fly,
+ Play with looks until he die?
+
+ Sure ye were not made at first
+ For such mischief to be curst;
+ As to kill Affection's care
+ That doth only truth declare;
+ Where worth's wonders never wither,
+ Love and Beauty live together.
+
+ Blessed eyes, then give your blessing,
+ That in passion's best expressing;
+ Love that only lives to grace ye,
+ May not suffer pride deface ye;
+ But in gentle thought's directions
+ Show the power of your perfections.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S SERVILE LOT.
+
+
+ Love mistress is of many minds,
+ Yet few know whom they serve;
+ They reckon least how little hope
+ Their service doth deserve.
+
+ The will she robbeth from the wit,
+ The sense from reason's lore;
+ She is delightful in the rind,
+ Corrupted in the core.
+
+ May never was the month of love,
+ For May is full of flowers;
+ But rather April, wet by kind;
+ For love is full of showers.
+
+ With soothing words inthrallèd souls
+ She chains in servile bands!
+ Her eye in silence hath a speech
+ Which eye best understands.
+
+ Her little sweet hath many sours,
+ Short hap, immortal harms;
+ Her loving looks are murdering darts,
+ Her songs bewitching charms.
+
+ Like winter rose, and summer ice,
+ Her joys are still untimely;
+ Before her hope, behind remorse,
+ Fair first, in fine unseemly.
+
+ Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,
+ Leave off your idle pain;
+ Seek other mistress for your minds,
+ Love's service is in vain.
+
+Robert Southwell.
+
+
+
+
+THE HEART OF STONE.
+
+
+ Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose!
+ It was from cheeks that shame the rose,
+ From lips that spoil the ruby's praise,
+ From eyes that mock the diamond's blaze:
+ Whence comes my woe? as freely own;
+ Ah me! 'twas from a heart like stone.
+
+ The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,
+ The lips befitting words most kind,
+ The eye does tempt to love's desire,
+ And seems to say, "'Tis Cupid's fire;"
+ Yet all so fair but speak my moan,
+ Since nought doth say the heart of stone.
+
+ Why thus, my love, so kind bespeak
+ Sweet eye, sweet lip, sweet blushing cheek,--
+ Yet not a heart to save my pain?
+ O Venus, take thy gifts again!
+ Make not so fair to cause our moan,
+ Or make a heart that's like your own.
+
+John Harrington.
+
+
+
+
+A SHEPHERD'S SONG TO HIS LOVE.
+
+
+ Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly,
+ White as the sun, fair as the lily,
+ Heigh-ho, how I do love thee!
+ I do love thee as my lambs
+ Are belovèd of their dams:
+ How blest I were if thou would'st prove me!
+
+ Diaphenia, like the spreading roses,
+ That in thy sweets all sweets encloses,
+ Fair sweet, how I do love thee!
+ I do love thee as each flower
+ Loves the sun's life-giving power;
+ For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.
+
+ Diaphenia, like to all things blessèd,
+ When all thy praises are expressèd,
+ Dear joy, how I do love thee!
+ As the birds do love the spring,
+ Or the bees their careful king:
+ Then, in requite, sweet virgin, love me!
+
+Henry Constable.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE NOW, FOR ROSES FADE.
+
+
+ Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose,
+ The image of thy blush, and summer's honour!
+ Whilst yet her tender bud doth undisclose
+ That full of beauty Time bestows upon her:
+ No sooner spreads her glory in the air,
+ But straight her wide-blown pomp comes to decline;
+ She then is scorn'd, that late adorn'd the fair.
+ So fade the roses of those cheeks of thine!
+
+ No April can revive thy withered flowers,
+ Whose springing grace adorns thy glory now:
+ Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
+ Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
+ Then do not thou such treasure waste in vain,
+ But love now, whilst thou may'st be loved again.
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+EARLY LOVE.
+
+
+ Ah! I remember well (and how can I
+ But evermore remember well) when first
+ Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was
+ The flame we felt; when as we sat and sigh'd
+ And look'd upon each other, and conceived
+ Not what we ail'd--yet something we did ail;
+ And yet were well, and yet we were not well,
+ And what was our disease we could not tell.
+ Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look; and thus
+ In that first garden of our simpleness
+ We spent our childhood. But when years began
+ To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then
+ Would she with graver looks, with sweet, stern brow,
+ Check my presumption and my forwardness;
+ Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show
+ What she would have me, yet not have me know.
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE IS A SICKNESS.
+
+
+ Love is a sickness full of woes,
+ All remedies refusing;
+ A plant that most with cutting grows,
+ Most barren with best using.
+ Why so?
+ More we enjoy it, more it dies,
+ If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
+ Heigh-ho!
+
+ Love is a torment of the mind,
+ A tempest everlasting;
+ And Jove hath made it of a kind
+ Not well, nor full nor fasting.
+ Why so?
+ More we enjoy it, more it dies,
+ If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
+ Heigh-ho!
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.
+
+
+ Come live with me, and be my love,
+ And we will all the pleasures prove
+ That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields,
+ 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 a thousand fragrant posies:
+ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,
+ Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
+
+ A gown made of the finest wool,
+ Which from our pretty lambs we'll pull;
+ Fair lined slippers for the cold,
+ With buckles of the purest gold.
+
+ A belt of straw and ivy buds,
+ With coral clasps and amber studs:
+ And if these pleasures may thee move,
+ Come live with me and be my love.
+
+ The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
+ For thy delight each May morning.
+ If these delights thy mind may move,
+ Come live with me and be my love.
+
+Christopher Marlowe.
+
+[See "The Shepherdess's Reply to The Passionate Pilgrim," page 22.]
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE.
+
+
+ Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
+ And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
+ Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain
+ Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
+
+ Were I as high as heaven above the plain,
+ And you, my Love, as humble and as low
+ As are the deepest bottoms of the main,
+ Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go.
+
+ Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies,
+ My love should shine on you like to the sun,
+ And look upon you with ten thousand eyes
+ Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
+
+ Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you,
+ Whereso'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.
+
+J. Sylvester.
+
+
+
+
+A PARTING; OR, LOVE'S LAST CHANCE.
+
+
+ Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part:
+ Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
+ And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
+ That thus so clearly I myself can free.
+ Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
+ And, when we meet at any time again,
+ Be it not seen in either of our brows
+ That we one jot of former love retain.
+ Now, at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
+ When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
+ When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
+ And Innocence is closing up his eyes;
+ Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
+ From death to life thou mightst him yet recover.
+
+Michael Drayton.
+
+
+
+
+WHO IS SILVIA?
+
+
+ Who is Silvia? What is she,
+ That all our swains commend her?
+ Holy, fair, and wise is she:
+ The heavens such grace did lend her,
+ That she might admired be.
+
+ Is she kind as she is fair?
+ For beauty lives with kindness.
+ Love doth to her eyes repair
+ To help him of his blindness,
+ And, being helped, inhabits there.
+
+ Then to Silvia let us sing,
+ That Silvia is excelling;
+ She excels each mortal thing
+ Upon the dull earth dwelling:
+ To her let us garlands bring.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+SIGH NO MORE, LADIES.
+
+
+ Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
+ Men were deceivers ever,
+ One foot in sea and one on shore,
+ To one thing constant never:
+ Then sigh not so,
+ But let them go,
+ And be you blithe and bonny,
+ Converting all your sounds of woe
+ Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+ Sing no more ditties, sing no moe
+ Of dumps so dull and heavy;
+ The fraud of men was ever so,
+ Since summer first was leafy.
+ Then sigh not so,
+ But let them go,
+ And be you blithe and bonny,
+ Converting all your sounds of woe
+ Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN.
+
+
+ Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
+ And Phoebus 'gins arise';
+ His steeds to water at those springs
+ On chalic'd flowers that lies;
+ And winking Mary-buds begin
+ To ope their golden eyes:
+ With everything that pretty is,
+ My lady sweet arise:
+ Arise, arise.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.
+
+
+ While that the sun with his beams hot
+ Scorchèd the fruits in vale and mountain,
+ Philon the shepherd, late forgot,
+ Sitting beside a crystal fountain,
+ In shadow of a green oak tree
+ Upon his pipe this song play'd he:
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ So long as I was in your sight
+ I was your heart, your soul, and treasure;
+ And evermore you sobb'd and sigh'd
+ Burning in flames beyond all measure:
+ --Three days endured your love to me,
+ And it was lost in other three!
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ Another Shepherd you did see
+ To whom your heart was soon enchainèd;
+ Full soon your love was leapt from me,
+ Full soon my place he had obtainèd.
+ Soon came a third, your love to win,
+ And we were out and he was in.
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ Sure you have made me passing glad
+ That you your mind so soon removèd,
+ Before that I the leisure had
+ To choose you for my best belovèd:
+ For all your love was past and done
+ Two days before it was begun:--
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+Anon., circa 1564.
+
+
+
+
+TRUE LOVELINESS.
+
+
+ It is not Beauty I demand,
+ A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
+ Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
+ Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair:
+
+ Tell me not of your starry eyes,
+ Your lips that seem on roses fed,
+ Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies,
+ Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed:--
+
+ A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks,
+ Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours,
+ A breath that softer music speaks
+ Than summer winds a-wooing flowers,
+
+ These are but gauds: nay, what are lips?
+ Coral beneath the ocean-stream,
+ Whose brink when your adventurer slips,
+ Full oft he perisheth on them.
+
+ And what are cheeks, but ensigns oft
+ That wave hot youth to fields of blood?
+ Did Helen's breast, though ne'er so soft,
+ Do Greece or Ilium any good?
+
+ Eyes can with baleful ardour burn;
+ Poison can breathe, that erst perfumed;
+ There's many a white hand holds an urn
+ With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.
+
+ For crystal brows there's nought within,
+ They are but empty cells for pride;
+ He who the Siren's hair would win
+ Is mostly strangled in the tide.
+
+ Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,
+ A tender heart, a loyal mind,
+ Which with temptation I would trust,
+ Yet never link'd with error find,--
+
+ One in whose gentle bosom I
+ Could pour my secret heart of woes,
+ Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly
+ That hides his murmurs in the rose,--
+
+ My earthly Comforter! whose love
+ So indefeasible might be,
+ That when my spirit wonn'd above,
+ Hers could not stay, for sympathy.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+A WOMAN'S REASON.
+
+
+ Love me not for comely grace,
+ For my pleasing eye or face,
+ Nor for any outward part;
+ No! nor for my constant heart,--
+ For these may fail, or turn to ill;
+ So thou and I shall sever:
+ Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
+ And love me well, but know not why.
+ So hast thou the same reason still
+ To dote upon me ever!
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY.
+
+
+ Over the mountains
+ And over the waves,
+ Under the fountains
+ And under the graves;
+ Under floods that are deepest,
+ Which Neptune obey;
+ Over rocks that are steepest,
+ Love will find out the way.
+
+ Where there is no place
+ For the glow-worm to lie;
+ Where there is no space
+ For receipt of a fly;
+ Where the midge dares not venture,
+ Lest herself fast she lay;
+ If love come, he will enter
+ And soon find out his way.
+
+ You may esteem him
+ A child for his might;
+ Or you may deem him
+ A coward for his flight;
+ But if she whom Love doth honour
+ Be concealed from the day,
+ Set a thousand guards upon her,
+ Love will find out the way.
+
+ Some think to lose him
+ By having him confin'd,
+ And some do suppose him,
+ Poor thing, to be blind;
+ But if ne'er so close you wall him,
+ Do the best that you may;
+ Blind Love, if so ye call him,
+ Will find out his way.
+
+ You may train the eagle
+ To stoop to your fist;
+ Or you may inveigle
+ The Phoenix of the East;
+ The lioness, you may move her
+ To give o'er her prey;
+ But you will never stop a lover--
+ He will find out his way.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.
+
+
+ Oh, what a plague is love!
+ I cannot bear it,
+ She will inconstant prove,
+ I greatly fear it;
+ It so torments my mind,
+ That my heart faileth,
+ She wavers with the wind,
+ As a ship saileth;
+ Please her the best I may,
+ She looks another way;
+ Alack and well a-day!
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+ I often heard her say
+ That she loved posies:
+ In the last month of May
+ I gave her roses,
+ Cowslips and gillyflow'rs
+ And the sweet lily,
+ I got to deck the bow'rs
+ Of my dear Philly;
+ She did them all disdain,
+ And threw them back again;
+ Therefore, 'tis flat and plain
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+ Which way soe'er I go,
+ She still torments me;
+ And whatsoe'er I do,
+ Nothing contents me:
+ I fade, and pine away
+ With grief and sorrow;
+ I fall quite to decay,
+ Like any shadow;
+ Since 'twill no better be,
+ I'll bear it patiently;
+ Yet all the world may see
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+Circa 1610.
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF TWO.
+
+
+ Faustina hath the fairest face,
+ And Phillida the better grace;
+ Both have mine eye enriched:
+ This sings full sweetly with her voice;
+ Her fingers make so sweet a noise:
+ Both have mine ear bewitched.
+ Ah me! sith Fates have so provided,
+ My heart, alas! must be divided.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS.
+
+
+ I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair,
+ And I might have gone near to love thee,
+ Had I not found the slightest prayer
+ That lips could speak, had power to move thee;
+ But I can let thee now alone,
+ As worthy to be loved by none.
+
+ I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find
+ Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets,
+ Thy favours are but like the wind,
+ That kisses everything it meets;
+ And since thou can with more than one,
+ Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none.
+
+ The morning rose that untouch'd stands,
+ Arm'd with her briars, how sweetly smells;
+ But, pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands,
+ Her sweet no longer with her dwells.
+ But scent and beauty both are gone,
+ And leaves fall from her, one by one.
+
+ Such fate ere long will thee betide,
+ When thou hast handled been a while;
+ Like sere flowers to be thrown aside;--
+ And I will sigh, while some will smile,
+ To see thy love for more than one
+ Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun.
+
+
+
+
+ON WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY.
+
+
+ I Lov'd thee once, I'll love no more,
+ Thine be the grief as is the blame;
+ Thou art not what thou wert before,
+ What reason I should be the same?
+ He that can love unlov'd again,
+ Hath better store of love than brain:
+ God send me love my debts to pay,
+ While unthrifts fool their love away.
+
+ Nothing could have my love o'erthrown,
+ If thou hadst still continued mine;
+ Yea, if thou hadst remain'd thy own,
+ I might perchance have yet been thine.
+ But thou thy freedom did recall,
+ That if thou might elsewhere inthral;
+ And then how could I but disdain
+ A captive's captive to remain?
+
+ When new desires had conquer'd thee,
+ And chang'd the object of thy will,
+ It had been lethargy in me,
+ Not constancy to love thee still.
+ Yea it had been a sin to go
+ And prostitute affection so,
+ Since we are taught no prayers to say
+ To such as must to others pray.
+
+ Yet do thou glory in thy choice,
+ Thy choice of his good fortune's boast;
+ I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice
+ To see him gain what I have lost;
+ The height of my disdain shall be,
+ To laugh at him, to blush for thee;
+ To love thee still, but go no more
+ A-begging to a beggar's door.
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun.
+
+
+
+
+THE THREE STATES OF WOMAN.
+
+
+ In a maiden-time profess'd,
+ Then we say that life is bless'd;
+ Tasting once the married life,
+ Then we only praise the wife;
+ There's but one state more to try,
+ Which makes women laugh or cry--
+ Widow, widow: of these three
+ The middle's best, and that give me.
+
+Thomas Middleton.
+
+
+
+
+MY LOVE AND I MUST PART.
+
+
+ Weep eyes, break heart!
+ My love and I must part.
+ Cruel fates true love do soonest sever;
+ O, I shall see thee never, never, never!
+ O, happy is the maid whose life takes end
+ Ere it knows parent's frown or loss of friend!
+ Weep eyes, break heart!
+ My love and I must part.
+
+Thomas Middleton.
+
+
+
+
+PERFECT BEAUTY.
+
+
+ It was a beauty that I saw,
+ So pure, so perfect, as the frame
+ Of all the universe was lame,
+ To that one figure, could I draw,
+ Or give least line of it a law!
+ A skein of silk without a knot,
+ A fair march made without a halt,
+ A curious form without a fault,
+ A printed book without a blot,
+ All beauty, and without a spot!
+
+Ben Jonson.
+
+
+
+
+TO CELIA.
+
+
+ Drink to me only with thine eyes,
+ And I will pledge with mine;
+ Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
+ And I'll not look for wine.
+ The thirst that from the soul doth rise
+ Doth ask a drink divine;
+ But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
+ I would not change for thine.
+
+ I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
+ Not so much honouring thee
+ As giving it a hope that there
+ It could not withered be:
+ But thou thereon didst only breathe
+ And sent'st it back to me;
+ Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
+ Not of itself, but thee!
+
+Ben Jonson.
+
+
+
+
+A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
+ To-morrow, when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?
+ Wilt thou then ante-date some new-made vow?
+ Or say, that now
+ We are not just those persons which we were?
+ Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
+ Of Love and his wrath any may forswear?
+ Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,
+ So lovers' contracts, images of those,
+ Bind but till Sleep, Death's image, them unloose?
+ Or, your own end to justify
+ For having purposed change and falsehood, you
+ Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
+ Vain lunatic! Against these scapes I could
+ Dispute and conquer if I would;
+ Which I abstain to do;
+ For, by to-morrow, I may think so too.
+
+Dr. John Donne.
+
+
+
+
+SWEETEST LOVE.
+
+
+ Sweetest love, I do not go
+ For weariness of thee,
+ Nor in hope the world can show
+ A fitter love for me.
+ But since that I
+ Must die at last, 'tis best
+ Thus to use myself in jest
+ By feigned death to die.
+
+ Yester-night the sun went hence,
+ And yet is here to-day;
+ He hath no desire nor sense,
+ Nor half so short a way:
+ Then fear not me,
+ But believe that I shall make
+ Hastier journeys, since I take
+ More wings and spurs than he.
+
+Dr. John Donne.
+
+
+
+
+TO AURORA.
+
+
+ O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm,
+ And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest;
+ Then would'st thou melt the ice out of thy breast,
+ And thy relenting heart would kindly warm.
+ O, if thy pride did not our joys control,
+ What world of loving wonders should'st thou see!
+ For if I saw thee once transform'd in me,
+ Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;
+ Then all my thoughts should in thy visage shine,
+ And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan
+ Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone:
+ No, I would have my share in what were thine:
+ And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one,
+ This happy harmony would make them none.
+
+W. Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIS.
+
+
+ In petticoat of green,
+ Her hair about her eyne,
+ Phillis, beneath an oak,
+ Sat milking her fair flock.
+ 'Mongst that sweet-strained moisture, rare delight!
+ Her hand seem'd milk, in milk it was so white.
+
+William Drummond.
+
+
+
+
+TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY.
+
+
+ Take, O, take those lips away,
+ That so sweetly were forsworn;
+ And those eyes, the break of day,
+ Lights that do mislead the morn:
+ But my kisses bring again, bring again;
+ Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
+
+ Hide, O, hide those hills of snow,
+ Which thy frozen bosom bears,
+ On whose tops the pinks that grow
+ Are of those that April wears;
+ But first set my poor heart free,
+ Bound in icy chains by thee.
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher.
+
+
+
+
+TELL ME, WHAT IS LOVE?
+
+
+ Tell me, dearest, what is love?
+ 'Tis a lightning from above,
+ 'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire,
+ 'Tis a boy they call Desire.
+ 'Tis a grave
+ Gapes to have
+ Those poor fools that long to prove.
+
+ Tell me more, are women true?
+ Yes, some are, and some as you;
+ Some are willing, some are strange,
+ Since you men first taught to change.
+ And till truth
+ Be in both
+ All shall love to love anew.
+
+ Tell me more yet, can they grieve?
+ Yes, and sicken sore, but live:
+ And be wise and delay,
+ When you men are as wise as they.
+ Then I see
+ Faith will be
+ Never till they both believe.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+PINING FOR LOVE.
+
+
+ How long shall I pine for love?
+ How long shall I sue in vain?
+ How long like the turtle-dove,
+ Shall I heartily thus complain?
+ Shall the sails of my heart stand still?
+ Shall the grists of my hope be unground?
+ Oh fie, oh fie, oh fie,
+ Let the mill, let the mill go round.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+FIE ON LOVE.
+
+
+ Now fie on foolish love, it not befits
+ Or man or woman know it.
+ Love was not meant for people in their wits,
+ And they that fondly show it
+ Betray the straw, and features in their brain,
+ And shall have Bedlam for their pain:
+ If simple love be such a curse,
+ To marry is to make it ten times worse.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+DAMOETAS' PRAISE OF HIS DAPHNIS.
+
+
+ Tune on my pipe the praises of my love,
+ Love fair and bright;
+ Fill earth with sound, and airy heavens above,
+ Heavens Jove's delight,
+ With Daphnis' praise.
+
+ Her tresses are like wires of beaten gold,
+ Gold bright and sheen;
+ Like Nisus' golden hair that Scylla poll'd,
+ Scyll o'erseen
+ Through Minos' love.
+
+ Her eyes like shining lamps in midst of night,
+ Night dark and dead:
+ Or as the stars that give the seamen light,
+ Light for to lead
+ Their wandering ships.
+
+ Amidst her cheeks the rose and lily strive,
+ Lily snow-white:
+ When their contést doth make their colour thrive,
+ Colour too bright
+ For shepherds' eyes.
+
+ Her lips like scarlet of the finest dye,
+ Scarlet blood-red:
+ Teeth white as snow, which on the hills do lie,
+ Hills overspread
+ By winter's force.
+
+ Her skin as soft as is the finest silk,
+ Silk soft and fine:
+ Of colour like unto the whitest milk,
+ Milk of the kine
+ Of Daphnis' herd.
+
+ As swift of foot as is the pretty roe,
+ Roe swift of pace:
+ When yelping hounds pursue her to and fro,
+ Hounds fierce in chase
+ To reave her life.
+
+ Cease to tell of any more compare,
+ Compares too rude,
+ Daphnis' deserts and beauty are too rare:
+ Then here conclude
+ Fair Daphnis' praise.
+
+John Wootton.
+
+
+
+
+SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?
+
+
+ Shall I, wasting in despair,
+ Die because a woman's fair?
+ Or my cheeks make pale with care,
+ 'Cause another's rosy are?
+ Be she fairer than the day,
+ Or the flowery meads in May,
+ If she be not so to me,
+ What care I how fair she be?
+
+ Shall my foolish heart be pined
+ 'Cause I see a woman kind;
+ Or a well-disposèd nature
+ Joinèd with a lovely feature?
+ Be she meeker, kinder, than
+ Turtle-dove or pelican,
+ If she be not so to me,
+ What care I how kind she be?
+
+ Shall a woman's virtues move
+ Me to perish for her love?
+ Or her merit's value known,
+ Make me quite forget mine own?
+ Be she with that goodness blest
+ Which may gain her name of Best;
+ If she seem not such to me,
+ What care I how good she be?
+
+ 'Cause her fortune seems too high,
+ Shall I play the fool and die?
+ Those that bear a noble mind,
+ Where they want, of riches find.
+ Think what with them they would do
+ Who without them dare to woo:
+ And unless that mind I see,
+ What care I tho' great she be?
+
+ Great or good, or kind or fair,
+ I will ne'er the more despair;
+ If she love me, this believe,
+ I will die ere she shall grieve;
+ If she slight me when I woo,
+ I can scorn and let her go;
+ For if she be not for me,
+ What care I for whom she be?
+
+George Wither.
+
+
+
+
+TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAISED MY MISTRESS'S BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND.
+
+
+ Wonder not, though I am blind,
+ For you must be
+ Dark in your eyes, or in your mind,
+ If, when you see
+ Her face, you prove not blind like me;
+ If the powerful beams that fly
+ From her eye,
+ And those amorous sweets that lie
+ Scatter'd in each neighbouring part,
+ Find a passage to your heart,
+ Then you'll confess your mortal sight
+ Too weak for such a glorious light:
+ For if her graces you discover,
+ You grow, like me, a dazzled lover;
+ But if those beauties you not spy,
+ Then are you blinder far than I.
+
+Thomas Carew.
+
+
+
+
+HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK
+
+
+ He that loves a rosy cheek,
+ Or a coral lip admires,
+ Or from star-like eyes doth seek
+ Fuel to maintain his fires;
+ As old Time makes these decay,
+ So his flames must waste away.
+
+ But a smooth and steadfast mind,
+ Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
+ Hearts with equal love combined,
+ Kindle never-dying fires;
+ Where these are not, I despise
+ Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
+
+Thomas Carew.
+
+
+
+
+MATIN SONG.
+
+
+ Rise, Lady Mistress! rise!
+ The night hath tedious been;
+ No sleep hath fallen into mine eyes,
+ Nor slumbers made me sin.
+ Is not she a saint, then, say!
+ Thought of whom keeps sin away?
+
+ Rise, madam! rise, and give me light,
+ Whom darkness still will cover,
+ And ignorance, more dark than night,
+ Till thou smile on thy lover.
+ All want day till thy beauty rise,
+ For the gray morn breaks from thine eyes.
+
+Nathaniel Field.
+
+
+
+
+JULIA.
+
+
+ Some asked me where the rubies grew,
+ And nothing did I say,
+ But with my finger pointed to
+ The lips of Julia.
+
+ Some asked how pearls did grow, and where;
+ Then spake I to my girl,
+ To part her lips and show me there
+ The quarelets of pearl.
+
+ One asked me where the roses grew;
+ I bade him not go seek,
+ But forthwith bade my Julia show
+ A bud in either cheek.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+CHERRY RIPE.
+
+
+ "Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe," I cry,
+ "Full and fair ones--come and buy;"
+ If so be you ask me where
+ They do grow? I answer, "There,
+ Where my Julia's lips do smile;"
+ There's the land, or cherry-isle,
+ Whose plantations fully show
+ All the year where cherries grow!
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+TO THE VIRGINS.
+
+
+ Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
+ Old Time is still a-flying;
+ And this same flower that smiles to-day,
+ To-morrow will be dying.
+
+ The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
+ The higher he's a-getting,
+ The sooner will his race be run,
+ And nearer he's to setting.
+
+ That age is best which is the first,
+ When youth and blood are warmer;
+ But being spent, the worse and worst
+ Times still succeed the former.
+
+ Then be not coy, but use your time,
+ And while ye may, go marry;
+ For having lost but once your prime,
+ You may for ever tarry.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+TO ELECTRA.
+
+
+ I dare not ask a kiss;
+ I dare not beg a smile;
+ Lest having that or this,
+ I might grow proud the while.
+
+ No, no, the utmost share
+ Of my desire shall be,
+ Only to kiss that air
+ That lately kissèd thee.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+DRY THOSE EYES.
+
+
+ Dry those fair, those crystal eyes,
+ Which like growing fountains rise
+ To drown their banks! Grief's sullen brooks
+ Would better flow in furrow'd looks:
+ Thy lovely face was never meant
+ To be the shore of discontent.
+
+ Then clear those waterish stars again,
+ Which else portend a lasting rain;
+ Lest the clouds which settle there
+ Prolong my winter all the year,
+ And thy example others make
+ In love with sorrow, for thy sake.
+
+Dr. Henry King.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again;
+ Sweet, if you shrink, I'll never think of love;
+ Fair, if you fail, I'll judge all beauty vain;
+ Wise, if too weak, more wits I'll never prove.
+ Dear, sweet, fair, wise,--change, shrink, nor be not weak;
+ And, on my faith, my faith shall never break.
+
+ Earth with her flowers shall sooner heaven adorn;
+ Heaven her bright stars through earth's dim globe shall move;
+ Fire heat shall lose, and frosts of flames be born;
+ Air, made to shine, as black as hell shall prove:
+ Earth, heaven, fire, air, the world transformed shall view,
+ Ere I prove false to faith, or strange to you.
+
+John Dowland.
+
+
+
+
+FAREWELL, MY JOY.
+
+
+ Farewell! my joy!
+ Adieu! my love and pleasure!
+ To sport and toy
+ We have no longer leisure.
+ Fa la la!
+
+ Farewell! adieu!
+ Until our next consorting!
+ Sweet love, be true!
+ And thus we end our sporting.
+ Fa la la!
+
+Thomas Weelkes.
+
+
+
+
+THE LARK NOW LEAVES HIS WAT'RY NEST.
+
+
+ The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest,
+ And climbing, shakes his dewy wings,
+ He takes your window for the east,
+ And to implore your light, he sings;
+ Awake, awake, the morn will never rise
+ Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes.
+
+ The merchant bows unto the seaman's star,
+ The ploughman from the sun his season takes;
+ But still the lover wonders what they are,
+ Who look for day before his mistress wakes.
+ Awake, awake, break through your veils of lawn,
+ Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn.
+
+Sir William Davenant.
+
+
+
+
+GO, LOVELY ROSE.
+
+
+ Go, lovely Rose,
+ Tell her that wastes her time and me,
+ That now she knows
+ When I resemble her to thee,
+ How sweet and fair she seems to be.
+
+ Tell her that's young,
+ And shuns to have her graces spied,
+ That had'st thou sprung
+ In deserts where no men abide,
+ Thou must have uncommended died.
+
+ Small is the worth
+ Of beauty from the light retired;
+ Bid her come forth,
+ Suffer herself to be desired,
+ And not blush so to be admired.
+
+ Then die, that she
+ The common fate of all things rare
+ May read in thee,
+ How small a part of time they share
+ Who are so wondrous sweet and fair!
+
+Edmund Waller.
+
+
+
+
+HIS MISTRESS.
+
+
+ I have a mistress, for perfections rare
+ In every eye, but in my thoughts most fair.
+ Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes;
+ Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice.
+ And wheresoe'er my fancy would begin,
+ Still her perfection lets religion in.
+ We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours
+ As chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers.
+ I touch her, like my beads, with devout care,
+ And come unto my courtship as my prayer.
+
+Thomas Randolph.
+
+
+
+
+CHLORIS.
+
+
+ Amyntas, go! Thou art undone,
+ Thy faithful heart is crossed by fate;
+ That love is better not begun,
+ Where love is come to love too late.
+
+ Yet who that saw fair Chloris weep
+ Such sacred dew, with such pure grace,
+ Durst think them feignèd tears, or seek
+ For treason in an angel's face.
+
+Henry Vaughan.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG.
+
+
+ Love me little, love me long,
+ Is the burden of my song;
+ Love that is too hot and strong
+ Burneth soon to waste;
+ Still I would not have thee cold,
+ Or backward, or too bold,
+ For love that lasteth till 'tis old
+ Fadeth not in haste.
+
+ Winter's cold, or summer's heat,
+ Autumn tempests on it beat,
+ It can never know defeat,
+ Never can rebel;
+ Such the love that I would gain,
+ Such love, I tell thee plain,
+ That thou must give or love in vain,
+ So to thee farewell.
+
+Circa 1610.
+
+
+
+
+FAIN WOULD I CHANGE THAT NOTE.
+
+
+ Fain would I change that note
+ To which fond love hath charm'd me,
+ Long, long to sing by rote,
+ Fancying that that harm'd me:
+ Yet when this thought doth come,
+ "Love is the perfect sum
+ Of all delight,"
+ I have no other choice
+ Either for pen or voice
+ To sing or write.
+
+ O Love, they wrong thee much
+ That say thy sweet is bitter,
+ When thy rich fruit is such
+ As nothing can be sweeter.
+ Fair house of joy and bliss
+ Where truest pleasure is,
+ I do adore thee;
+ I know thee what thou art,
+ I serve thee with my heart,
+ And fall before thee.
+
+Captain Tobias Hume.
+
+
+
+
+TO ROSES IN CASTARA'S BREAST.
+
+
+ Ye blushing Virgins happy are
+ In the chaste Nunn'ry of her breasts,
+ For he'd profane so chaste a fair,
+ Whoe'er should call them Cupid's nests.
+
+ Transplanted thus how bright ye grow,
+ How rich a perfume do ye yield?
+ In some close garden, cowslips so
+ Are sweeter than in th' open field.
+
+ In those white Cloisters live secure
+ From the rude blasts of wanton breath,
+ Each hour more innocent and pure,
+ Till you shall wither into death.
+
+ Then that which living gave you room,
+ Your glorious sepulchre shall be;
+ There wants no marble for a tomb,
+ Whose breast hath marble been to me.
+
+William Habington.
+
+
+
+
+THOU PRETTY BIRD.
+
+
+ Thou pretty bird, how do I see
+ Thy silly state and mine agree!
+ For thou a prisoner art;
+ So is my heart.
+ Thou sing'st to her, and so do I address
+ My music to her ear that's merciless;
+ But herein doth the difference lie,--
+ That thou art graced; so am not I;
+ Thou singing livest, and I must singing die.
+
+John Danyel.
+
+
+
+
+ONCE I LOV'D A MAIDEN FAIR.
+
+
+ Once I lov'd a maiden fair,
+ But she did deceive me;
+ She with Venus might compare,
+ In my mind, believe me:
+ She was young, and among
+ All our maids the sweetest.
+ Now I say, ah! well-a-day!
+ Brightest hopes are fleetest.
+
+ I the wedding ring had got,
+ Wedding clothes provided,
+ Sure the church would bind a knot
+ Ne'er to be divided:
+ Married we straight must be,
+ She her vows had plighted;
+ Vows, alas! as frail as glass:
+ All my hopes are blighted.
+
+ Maidens wav'ring and untrue,
+ Many a heart have broken;
+ Sweetest lips the world e'er knew,
+ Falsest words have spoken.
+ Fare thee well, faithless girl,
+ I'll not sorrow for thee;
+ Once I held thee dear as pearl,
+ Now I do abhor thee.
+
+Temp. Jas. I. (condensed by T. Oxenford).
+
+
+
+
+I PR'YTHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.
+
+
+ I pr'ythee send me back my heart,
+ Since I cannot have thine;
+ For if from yours you will not part,
+ Why then shouldst thou have mine?
+
+ Yet now I think on't, let it lie;
+ To find it were in vain,
+ For thou'st a thief in either eye
+ Would steal it back again.
+
+ Why should two hearts in one breast lie,
+ And yet not lodge together?
+ O love! where is thy sympathy,
+ If thus our breasts you sever?
+
+ But love is such a mystery,
+ I cannot find it out;
+ For when I think I'm best resolved,
+ I then am most in doubt.
+
+ Then farewell love, and farewell woe,
+ I will no longer pine;
+ For I'll believe I have her heart
+ As much as she hath mine.
+
+Sir John Suckling.
+
+
+
+
+ORSAMES' SONG.
+
+
+ Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
+ Prithee, why so pale?
+ Will, when looking well can't move her,
+ Looking ill prevail?
+ Prithee, why so pale?
+
+ Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
+ Prithee, why so mute?
+ Will, when speaking well can't win her,
+ Saying nothing do't?
+ Prithee, why so mute?
+
+ Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,
+ This cannot take her;
+ If of herself she will not love,
+ Nothing can make her:
+ The devil take her!
+
+Sir John Suckling.
+
+
+
+
+SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE.
+
+
+ Since first I saw your face I resolved
+ To honour and renown you;
+ If now I be disdained
+ I wish my heart had never known you.
+ What! I that loved, and you that liked,
+ Shall we begin to wrangle?
+ No, no, no, my heart is fast
+ And cannot disentangle.
+
+ The sun whose beams most glorious are,
+ Rejecteth no beholder,
+ And your sweet beauty past compare,
+ Made my poor eyes the bolder.
+ Where beauty moves, and wit delights
+ And signs of kindness bind me,
+ There, oh! there, where'er I go
+ I leave my heart behind me.
+
+ If I admire or praise you too much,
+ That fault you may forgive me,
+ Or if my hands had strayed but a touch,
+ Then justly might you leave me.
+ I asked you leave, you bade me love;
+ Is't now a time to chide me?
+ No, no, no, I'll love you still,
+ What fortune e'er betide me.
+
+Circa 1617.
+
+
+
+
+THE GIVEN HEART.
+
+
+ I Wonder what those lovers mean, who say
+ They've given their hearts away.
+ Some good, kind lover, tell me how:
+ For mine is but a torment to me now.
+
+ If so it be one place both hearts contain,
+ For what do they complain?
+ What courtesy can Love do more,
+ Than to join hearts that parted were before?
+
+ Woe to her stubborn heart, if once mine come
+ Into the self-same room;
+ 'Twill tear and blow up all within
+ Like a grenade shot into a magazine.
+
+ Then shall Love keep the ashes and torn parts
+ Of both our broken hearts;
+ Shall out of both one new one make,
+ From hers th' alloy, from mine the metal take.
+
+ For of her heart he from the flames will find
+ But little left behind:
+ Mine only will remain entire,
+ No dross was there to perish in the fire.
+
+Abraham Cowley.
+
+
+
+
+ICE AND FIRE.
+
+
+ Naked Love did to thine eye,
+ Chloris, once to warm him, fly;
+ But its subtle flame, and light,
+ Scorch'd his wings, and spoiled his sight.
+
+ Forc'd from thence he went to rest
+ In the soft couch of thy breast:
+ But there met a frost so great,
+ As his torch extinguish'd straight.
+
+ When poor Cupid (thus constrain'd
+ His cold bed to leave) complain'd:
+ "'Las! what lodging's here for me,
+ If all ice and fire she be."
+
+Sir Edmund Sherburne.
+
+
+
+
+AMARANTHA.
+
+
+ Amarantha, sweet and fair,
+ Forbear to braid that shining hair;
+ As my curious hand or eye,
+ Hovering round thee, let it fly:
+
+ Let it fly as unconfined
+ As its ravisher the wind,
+ Who has left his darling east
+ To wanton o'er this spicy nest.
+
+ Every tress must be confess'd
+ But neatly tangled at the best,
+ Like a clew of golden thread,
+ Most excellently ravelled.
+
+ Do not then wind up that light
+ In ribands, and o'ercloud the night;
+ Like the sun in his early ray,
+ But shake your head and scatter day.
+
+Richard Lovelace.
+
+
+
+
+TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON.
+
+
+ When love, with unconfined wings,
+ Hovers within my gates,
+ And my divine Althea brings
+ To whisper at the grates;
+ When I lie tangled in her hair,
+ And fetter'd to her eye--
+ The birds that wanton in the air,
+ Know no such liberty.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Stone walls do not a prison make,
+ Nor iron bars a cage;
+ Minds innocent and quiet take
+ That for an hermitage.
+ If I have freedom in my love,
+ And in my soul am free,--
+ Angels alone, that soar above,
+ Enjoy such liberty.
+
+Richard Lovelace.
+
+
+
+
+A MOCK SONG.
+
+
+ Tis true I never was in love:
+ But now I mean to be,
+ For there's no art
+ Can shield a heart
+ From love's supremacy.
+
+ Though in my nonage I have seen
+ A world of taking faces,
+ I had not age or wit to ken
+ Their several hidden graces.
+
+ Those virtues which, though thinly set,
+ In others are admired,
+ In thee are altogether met,
+ Which make thee so desired.
+
+ That though I never was in love,
+ Nor never meant to be,
+ Thyself and parts
+ Above my arts
+ Have drawn my heart to thee.
+
+Alexander Brome.
+
+
+
+
+SPEAKING AND KISSING.
+
+
+ The air which thy smooth voice doth break,
+ Into my soul like lightning flies;
+ My life retires while thou dost speak,
+ And thy soft breath its room supplies.
+
+ Lost in this pleasing ecstasy,
+ I join my trembling lips to thine,
+ And back receive that life from thee
+ Which I so gladly did resign.
+
+ Forbear, Platonic fools! t' inquire
+ What numbers do the soul compose;
+ No harmony can life inspire
+ But that which from these accents flows.
+
+Thomas Stanley.
+
+
+
+
+LADIES' CONQUERING EYES.
+
+
+ Ladies, though to your conquering eyes
+ Love owes its chiefest victories,
+ And borrows those bright arms from you
+ With which he does the world subdue;
+ Yet you yourselves are not above
+ The empire nor the griefs of love.
+
+ Then rack not lovers with disdain,
+ Lest love on you revenge their pain:
+ You are not free because you're fair,
+ The Boy did not his mother spare:
+ Though beauty be a killing dart,
+ It is no armour for the heart.
+
+George Etherege.
+
+
+
+
+DORINDA.
+
+
+ Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes,
+ United, cast too fierce a light,
+ Which blazes high, but quickly dies,
+ Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight.
+
+ Love is a calmer, gentler joy,
+ Smooth are his looks and soft his pace;
+ Her Cupid is a blackguard boy
+ That runs his link full in your face.
+
+Charles Sackville.
+
+
+
+
+CELIA AND SYLVIA.
+
+
+ Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou,
+ I must confess art kind;
+ But in her cruelty, I vow,
+ I more repose can find.
+ For, oh! thy fancy at all games does fly,
+ Fond of address, and willing to comply.
+
+ Thus he that loves must be undone,
+ Each way on rocks we fall;
+ Either you will be kind to none,
+ Or worse, be kind to all.
+ Vain are our hopes, and endless is our care;
+ We must be jealous, or we must despair.
+
+Robert Gould.
+
+
+
+
+TRUE LOVE.
+
+
+ Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid
+ Of sighs, nor aches, to make it known,
+ And to convince the cruellest maid,
+ Lovers should use their love alone.
+
+ Into their very looks 'twill steal,
+ And he that most would hide his flame,
+ Does in that case his pain reveal:
+ Silence itself can love proclaim.
+
+Sir Charles Sedley.
+
+
+
+
+TOO LATE!
+
+
+ Too late, alas! I must confess,
+ You need not arts to move me;
+ Such charms by nature you possess,
+ 'Twere madness not to love ye.
+
+ Then spare a heart you may surprise,
+ And give my tongue the glory
+ To boast, though my unfaithful eyes
+ Betray a tender story.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+MY MISTRESS' HEART.
+
+
+ My dear mistress has a heart
+ Soft as those kind looks she gave me;
+ When with Love's resistless art,
+ And her eyes, she did enslave me.
+ But her constancy's so weak,
+ She's so wild and apt to wander;
+ That my jealous heart would break
+ Should we live one day asunder.
+
+ Melting joys about her move,
+ Killing pleasures, wounding blisses;
+ She can dress her eyes in love,
+ And her lips can arm with kisses.
+ Angels listen when she speaks,
+ She's my delight, all mankind wonder;
+ But my jealous heart would break
+ Should we live one day asunder.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ I cannot change, as others do,
+ Though you unjustly scorn;
+ Since the poor swain that sighs for you,
+ For you alone was born.
+ No, Phillis, no, your heart to move
+ A surer way I'll try;
+ And to revenge my slighted love,
+ Will still love on and die.
+
+ When, killed with grief, Amyntas lies,
+ And you to mind shall call
+ The sighs that now unpitied rise,
+ The tears that vainly fall;
+ That welcome hour that ends his smart,
+ Will then begin your pain;
+ For such a faithful tender heart
+ Can never break in vain.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+MAN AND WOMAN.
+
+
+ Man is for woman made,
+ And woman made for man;
+ As the spur is for the jade,
+ As the scabbard for the blade,
+ As for liquor is the can,
+ So man's for woman made,
+ And woman made for man.
+
+ As the sceptre to be sway'd,
+ As to night the serenade,
+ As for pudding is the pan,
+ As to cool us is the fan,
+ So man's for woman made,
+ And woman made for man.
+
+Peter Antony Motteux.
+
+
+
+
+ACCEPT MY HEART.
+
+
+ Accept, my love, as true a heart
+ As ever lover gave:
+ 'Tis free, it vows, from any art,
+ And proud to be your slave.
+
+ Then take it kindly, as 'twas meant,
+ And let the giver live,
+ Who, with it, would the world have sent
+ Had it been his to give.
+
+ And, that Dorinda may not fear
+ I e'er will prove untrue,
+ My vow shall, ending with the year,
+ With it begin anew.
+
+Matthew Prior.
+
+
+
+
+AN ANGELIC WOMAN.
+
+
+ Not an angel dwells above
+ Half so fair as her I love.
+ Heaven knows how she'll receive me:
+ If she smiles I'm blest indeed;
+ If she frowns I'm quickly freed;
+ Heaven knows she ne'er can grieve me.
+
+ None can love her more than I,
+ Yet she ne'er shall make me die,
+ If my flame can never warm her:
+ Lasting beauty I'll adore,
+ I shall never love her more,
+ Cruelty will so deform her.
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh.
+
+
+
+
+I SMILE AT LOVE.
+
+
+ I smile at Love, and all its arts,
+ The charming Cynthia cried:
+ Take heed, for Love has piercing darts,
+ A wounded swain replied.
+ Once free and blest as you are now,
+ I trifled with his charms,
+ I pointed at his little bow,
+ And sported with his arms,
+ Till urged too far, Revenge! he cries,
+ A fatal shaft he drew,
+ It took its passage through your eyes,
+ And to my heart it flew.
+
+ To tear it thence I tried in vain;
+ To strive, I quickly found
+ Was only to increase the pain,
+ And to enlarge the wound.
+ Ah! much too well, I fear, you know
+ What pain I'm to endure,
+ Since what your eyes alone can do
+ Your heart alone can cure.
+ And that (grant Heaven, I may mistake!)
+ I doubt is doom'd to bear
+ A burden for another's sake,
+ Who ill rewards its care.
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh.
+
+
+
+
+ADIEU L'AMOUR.
+
+
+ Here end my chains, and thraldom cease,
+ If not in joy, I'll live at least in peace;
+ Since for the pleasures of an hour,
+ We must endure an age of pain;
+ I'll be this abject thing no more,
+ Love, give me back my heart again.
+
+ Despair tormented first my breast,
+ Now falsehood, a more cruel guest;
+ O! for the peace of human kind,
+ Make women longer true, or sooner kind:
+ With justice, or with mercy reign,
+ O Love! or give me back my heart again.
+
+George Granville.
+
+
+
+
+SABINA WAKES.
+
+
+ See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes!
+ And now the sun begins to rise;
+ Less glorious is the morn that breaks
+ From his bright beams, than her fair eyes.
+
+ With light united, day they give,
+ But different fates ere night fulfil;
+ How many by his warmth will live!
+ How many will her coldness kill!
+
+William Congreve.
+
+
+
+
+FALSE! OR INCONSTANCY.
+
+
+ False though she be to me and love,
+ I'll ne'er pursue revenge;
+ For still the charmer I approve,
+ Though I deplore her change.
+
+ In hours of bliss we oft have met,
+ They could not always last;
+ And though the present I regret,
+ I'm grateful for the past.
+
+William Congreve.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE AND HATE.
+
+
+ Why we love, and why we hate,
+ Is not granted us to know:
+ Random chance, or wilful fate,
+ Guides the shaft from Cupid's bow.
+
+ If on me Zelinda frown,
+ Madness 'tis in me to grieve:
+ Since her will is not her own,
+ Why should I uneasy live?
+
+ If I for Zelinda die,
+ Deaf to poor Mizella's cries,
+ Ask not me the reason why:
+ Seek the riddle in the skies.
+
+Ambrose Philips.
+
+
+
+
+I LATELY VOWED.
+
+
+ I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste,
+ That I no more would court
+ The joys that seem when they are past
+ As dull as they are short.
+
+ I oft to hate my mistress swear,
+ But soon my weakness find;
+ I make my oaths when she's severe,
+ But break them when she's kind.
+
+John Oldmixon.
+
+
+
+
+FEW HAPPY MATCHES.
+
+
+ Say, mighty Love, and teach my song
+ To whom thy sweetest joys belong,
+ And who the happy pairs
+ Whose yielding hearts, and joining hands,
+ Find blessings twisted with their bands
+ To soften all their cares.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Two kindest souls alone must meet,
+ 'Tis friendship makes the bondage sweet,
+ And feeds their mutual loves:
+ Bright Venus on her rolling throne
+ Is drawn by gentlest birds alone,
+ And Cupids yoke the doves.
+
+Dr. Isaac Watts.
+
+
+
+
+DORINDA'S CONQUEST.
+
+
+ Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought
+ The God of Love her charms to view;
+ To wound th' unwary maid he thought,
+ But soon became her conquest too.
+
+ He dropp'd half-drawn his feeble bow,
+ He look'd, he raved, and sighing pined;
+ And wish'd in vain he had been now,
+ As painters falsely draw him, blind.
+
+ Disarm'd, he to his mother flies;
+ Help, Venus, help thy wretched son!
+ Who now will pay us sacrifice?
+ For Love himself's, alas! undone.
+
+ To Cupid now no lover's prayer
+ Shall be address'd in suppliant sighs;
+ My darts are gone, but, oh! beware,
+ Fond mortals, of Dorinda's eyes!
+
+John Hughes.
+
+
+
+
+LOVERS IN DISGUISE.
+
+
+ How bless'd are lovers in disguise!
+ Like gods, they see,
+ As I do thee,
+ Unseen by human eyes.
+ Exposed to view,
+ I'm hid from view,
+ I'm altered, yet the same:
+ The dark conceals me,
+ Love reveals me:
+ Love, which lights me by its flame.
+
+ Were you not false, you would me know;
+ For though your eyes
+ Could not devise,
+ Your heart had told you so.
+ Your heart would beat
+ With eager heat,
+ And me by sympathy would find:
+ True love might see,
+ One changed like me,
+ False love is only blind.
+
+George Farquhar.
+
+
+
+
+WHEN THY BEAUTY APPEARS.
+
+
+ When thy beauty appears
+ In its graces and airs,
+ All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky;
+ At a distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears,
+ So strangely you dazzle my eye!
+
+ But then, without art,
+ Your kind thought you impart,
+ When your love runs in blushes through every vein;
+ When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,
+ Then I know you're a woman again.
+
+ There's a passion and pride
+ In our sex, she replied,
+ And thus, might I gratify both, would I do:
+ Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
+ But still be a woman to you.
+
+Thomas Parnell.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
+
+
+Accept, my love, as true a heart. 124.
+
+Ah! I remember well (and how can I. 48.
+
+Ah! my sweet sweeting! 5.
+
+Amarantha, sweet and fair. 112.
+
+Amid my bale I bathe in bliss. 14.
+
+Amyntas, go! Thou art undone. 100.
+
+And wilt thou leave me thus? 2.
+
+Away with these self-loving lads. 24.
+
+
+Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou. 118.
+
+Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry. 91.
+
+Come live with me, and be my love. 50.
+
+Cupid and my Campaspe played. 26.
+
+
+Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again. 95.
+
+Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly. 46.
+
+Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes. 117.
+
+Drink to me only with thine eyes. 74.
+
+Dry those fair, those crystal eyes. 94.
+
+
+Fain would I change that note. 102.
+
+False though she be to me and love. 129.
+
+Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought. 133.
+
+Farewell! my joy. 96.
+
+Faustina hath the fairest face. 66.
+
+Foolish love is only folly. 41.
+
+
+Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. 92.
+
+Go, lovely Rose. 98.
+
+
+Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 56.
+
+He that loves a rosy cheek. 88.
+
+He that loves and fears to try. 30.
+
+Help me to seek! For I lost it there. 1.
+
+Here end my chains, and thraldom cease, 127.
+
+How bless'd are lovers in disguise! 134.
+
+How long shall I pine for love? 81.
+
+
+I cannot change, as others do. 122.
+
+I dare not ask a kiss. 93.
+
+I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair. 67.
+
+I have a mistress, for perfections rare. 99.
+
+I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste. 131.
+
+I lov'd thee once, I'll love no more. 69.
+
+I pr'ythee send me back my heart. 106.
+
+I smile at Love, and all its arts. 126.
+
+I wonder what those lovers mean, who say. 110.
+
+If all the world and Love were young. 22.
+
+If women could be fair, and yet not fond. 11.
+
+In a maiden-time profess'd. 71.
+
+In petticoat of green. 78.
+
+In the merry month of May. 35.
+
+It is not Beauty I demand. 59.
+
+It was a beauty that I saw. 73.
+
+
+Ladies, though to your conquering eyes. 116.
+
+Like to Diana in her summer weed. 39.
+
+Like to the clear in highest sphere. 32.
+
+Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose. 47.
+
+Love guards the roses of thy lips. 31.
+
+Love is a sickness full of woes. 49.
+
+Love me little, love me long. 101.
+
+Love me not for comely grace. 61.
+
+Love mistress is of many minds. 43.
+
+Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought. 3.
+
+Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid. 119.
+
+
+Man is for woman made. 123.
+
+My dear mistress has a heart. 121.
+
+My girl, thou gazest much. 6.
+
+My Phyllis hath the morning sun. 16.
+
+My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. 27.
+
+
+Naked Love did to thine eye. 111.
+
+Not an angel dwells above. 125.
+
+Now fie on foolish love, it not befits. 82.
+
+Now thou hast loved me one whole day. 75.
+
+
+O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed! 17.
+
+O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm. 77.
+
+Oh, what a plague is love! 64.
+
+Once I loved a maiden fair. 105.
+
+Over the mountains. 62.
+
+
+Phylida was a fair maid. 12.
+
+Pretty twinkling starry eyes. 42.
+
+
+Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread. 28.
+
+Rise, Lady Mistress! rise! 89.
+
+
+Say, mighty Love, and teach my song. 132.
+
+See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes! 128.
+
+Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green. 4.
+
+Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee. 37.
+
+Shall I like a hermit dwell. 18.
+
+Shall I, wasting in despair. 85.
+
+Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell! 20.
+
+Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. 55.
+
+Since first I saw your face I resolved. 108.
+
+Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. 53.
+
+Some asked me where the rubies grew. 90.
+
+Sweetest love, I do not go. 76.
+
+
+Take, O, take those lips away. 79.
+
+Tell me, dearest, what is love? 80.
+
+The air which thy smooth voice doth break. 115.
+
+The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest. 97.
+
+There is a garden in her face. 38.
+
+Thou pretty bird, how do I see. 104.
+
+'Tis true I never was in love. 114.
+
+Too late, alas! I must confess. 120.
+
+Tune on my pipe the praises of my love. 83.
+
+Two lines shall teach you how. 8.
+
+Two lines shall tell the grief. 7.
+
+
+Weep eyes, break heart! 72.
+
+Were I as base as is the lowly plain. 52.
+
+What shepherd can express. 9.
+
+When love, with unconfined wings. 113.
+
+When thy beauty appears. 135.
+
+Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose! 45.
+
+While that the sun with his beams hot. 57.
+
+Who is Sylvia? What is she. 54.
+
+Why so pale and wan, fond lover? 107.
+
+Why we love, and why we hate. 130.
+
+With fragrant flowers we strew the way. 34.
+
+Wonder not, though I am blind. 87.
+
+
+Ye blushing Virgins happy are. 103.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF AUTHORS.
+
+
+Alexander, W., Earl of Stirling. 77.
+
+Anonymous. 5, 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 101, 105.
+
+Aytoun, Sir Robert. 67.
+
+
+Beaumont, Francis. 80.
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher. 79.
+
+Breton, Richard. 35.
+
+Brome, Alexander. 114.
+
+Brooke, Lord. 24.
+
+
+Campion, Thomas. 37.
+
+Carew, Thomas. 87.
+
+Congreve, William. 128.
+
+Constable, Henry. 46.
+
+Cowley, Abraham, 110.
+
+
+Daniel, John. 104.
+
+Daniel, Samuel. 47.
+
+Davenant, Sir William. 97.
+
+Donne, Dr. John. 75.
+
+Dowland, John. 95.
+
+Drayton, Michael. 53.
+
+Drummond, William. 78.
+
+Dyer, Sir Edward. 16.
+
+
+Etherege, Sir George. 116.
+
+
+Farquhar, George. 134.
+
+Field, Nathaniel. 89.
+
+Fletcher, _see_ Beaumont and F.
+
+
+Gascoigne, George. 14.
+
+Googe, Barnaby. 12.
+
+Gould, Robert. 118.
+
+Granville, George. 127.
+
+Greene, Robert. 39.
+
+Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke. 24.
+
+
+Habington, William. 103.
+
+Harrington, Sir John. 45.
+
+Herrick, Robert. 90.
+
+Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. 3.
+
+Hughes, John. 133.
+
+Hume, Capt. Tobias. 102.
+
+
+Jonson, Ben. 73.
+
+
+King, Bp. Henry. 94.
+
+
+Lodge, Thomas. 31.
+
+Lovelace, Richard. 112.
+
+Lyly, John. 26.
+
+
+Marlowe, Christopher. 50.
+
+Middleton, Thomas. 71.
+
+Motteux, Peter Anthony. 123.
+
+
+Oldmixon, John. 131.
+
+Oxford, Earl of. 9.
+
+
+Parnell, Thomas. 135.
+
+Peele, George. 17.
+
+Philips, Ambrose. 130.
+
+Prior, Matthew. 124.
+
+
+Raleigh, Sir Walter. 18.
+
+Randolph, Thomas, 99.
+
+Rochester, Earl of. 120.
+
+
+Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset. 117.
+
+Sedley, Sir Charles, 119.
+
+Shakespeare, William. 54.
+
+Sherburne, Sir Edmund. 111.
+
+Sidney, Sir Philip. 27.
+
+Southwell, Robert. 43.
+
+Stanley, Thomas. 115.
+
+Stirling, Earl of. 77.
+
+Suckling, Sir John. 106.
+
+Surrey, Earl of. 3.
+
+Sylvester, J. 52.
+
+
+Turberville, George. 6.
+
+
+Vanbrugh, Sir John. 125.
+
+Vaughan, Henry. 100.
+
+Vere, E., Earl of Oxford, 9.
+
+
+Waller, Edmund. 98.
+
+Watson, Thomas. 34.
+
+Watts, Dr. Isaac. 132.
+
+Weelkes, Thomas. 96.
+
+Wilmot, John. 120.
+
+Wither, George. 85.
+
+Wootton, John. 83.
+
+Wyatt, Sir Thomas. 1.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.
+Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+***** This file should be named 26398-8.txt or 26398-8.zip *****
+This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
+ https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/9/26398/
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
+will be renamed.
+
+Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
+one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
+(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
+permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
+set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
+copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
+protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
+Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
+charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
+do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
+rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
+such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
+research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
+practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
+subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
+redistribution.
+
+
+
+*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
+
+THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
+PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
+
+To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
+distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
+(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at
+https://gutenberg.org/license).
+
+
+Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic works
+
+1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to
+and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
+(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all
+the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
+all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession.
+If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
+terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
+entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.
+
+1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be
+used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who
+agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few
+things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
+even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See
+paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
+and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works. See paragraph 1.E below.
+
+1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
+or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the
+collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an
+individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
+located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
+copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
+works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
+are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project
+Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by
+freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of
+this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with
+the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
+keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
+
+1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern
+what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in
+a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check
+the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement
+before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or
+creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
+Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning
+the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
+States.
+
+1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg:
+
+1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate
+access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently
+whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the
+phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed,
+copied or distributed:
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
+from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
+posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
+and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
+or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
+with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
+work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1
+through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
+Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or
+1.E.9.
+
+1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
+with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
+must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional
+terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked
+to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
+permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
+
+1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
+work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
+
+1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
+electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
+prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with
+active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm License.
+
+1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
+compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
+word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or
+distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
+"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version
+posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org),
+you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
+copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
+request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
+form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1.
+
+1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
+performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
+unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.
+
+1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing
+access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided
+that
+
+- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from
+ the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method
+ you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is
+ owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
+ has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
+ Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments
+ must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
+ prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
+ returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
+ sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
+ address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
+ the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation."
+
+- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies
+ you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he
+ does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+ License. You must require such a user to return or
+ destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
+ and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
+ Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any
+ money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
+ electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
+ of receipt of the work.
+
+- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
+ distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
+forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
+both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
+Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the
+Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below.
+
+1.F.
+
+1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
+effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
+public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
+collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
+"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
+corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
+property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
+computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
+your equipment.
+
+1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
+of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
+liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
+fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
+LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
+PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
+TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
+LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
+INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
+DAMAGE.
+
+1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
+defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
+receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
+written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you
+received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with
+your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with
+the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
+refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
+providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
+receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy
+is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further
+opportunities to fix the problem.
+
+1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
+in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
+WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
+
+1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
+warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
+If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
+law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
+interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
+the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
+provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
+
+1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the
+trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone
+providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance
+with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production,
+promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works,
+harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
+that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do
+or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm
+work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any
+Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause.
+
+
+Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
+electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
+including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists
+because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
+people in all walks of life.
+
+Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
+assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
+goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
+remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
+and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
+To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
+and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
+and the Foundation web page at https://www.pglaf.org.
+
+
+Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
+Foundation
+
+The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
+501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
+state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
+Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification
+number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at
+https://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
+permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws.
+
+The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S.
+Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered
+throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at
+809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
+business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact
+information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official
+page at https://pglaf.org
+
+For additional contact information:
+ Dr. Gregory B. Newby
+ Chief Executive and Director
+ gbnewby@pglaf.org
+
+
+Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
+spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
+increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
+freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest
+array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations
+($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt
+status with the IRS.
+
+The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
+charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
+States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
+considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
+with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations
+where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To
+SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
+particular state visit https://pglaf.org
+
+While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
+have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
+against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
+approach us with offers to donate.
+
+International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
+any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
+outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
+
+Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation
+methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other
+ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
+donations. To donate, please visit: https://pglaf.org/donate
+
+
+Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works.
+
+Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
+concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
+with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
+Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
+
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
+editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S.
+unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily
+keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.
+
+
+Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility:
+
+ https://www.gutenberg.org
+
+This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm,
+including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary
+Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to
+subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.
diff --git a/26398-8.zip b/26398-8.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f93fa4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-8.zip
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h.zip b/26398-h.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16bb9f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h.zip
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/26398-h.htm b/26398-h/26398-h.htm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ae5d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/26398-h.htm
@@ -0,0 +1,4683 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
+ <title>
+ The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by J. Potter Briscoe.
+ </title>
+ <style type="text/css">
+/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */
+
+<!--
+
+ body {margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%;}
+ .frontend {text-align: center; font-size: 90%}
+ .super {vertical-align: super; font-size: 75%;}
+ .transnote {margin: 2em 5% 1em 5%; font-size: 90%; padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;
+ border: solid 1px silver; margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%;}
+
+ p {margin-top: .75em; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: .75em;}
+ .heading {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; text-align: left;
+ font-weight: bold; font-size: 150%; }
+ .author {display: block; margin-left: 10%; font-size: 90%;}
+ .comment {text-align: center; font-size: 90%;}
+
+ h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center; clear: both;}
+
+ hr {width: 33%; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em;
+ margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; clear: both;}
+
+ img {border: 0;}
+
+ table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}
+ td {vertical-align: top;}
+ .indent {text-indent: 2em; text-align: left;}
+
+ .pagenum {position: absolute;
+ left: 92%;
+ font-size: 75%;
+ text-align: right;}
+
+ .center {text-align: center;}
+ .right {text-align: right;}
+ .smcap {font-variant: small-caps;}
+
+ .figcenter {margin: auto; text-align: center;}
+
+ .poem {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; text-align: left;}
+ .poem br {display: none;}
+ .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;}
+ .poem span.i0 {display: block; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i1 {display: block; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 2em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i3 {display: block; margin-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 4em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i5 {display: block; margin-left: 5em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i6 {display: block; margin-left: 6em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i8 {display: block; margin-left: 8em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i10 {display: block; margin-left: 10em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i11 {display: block; margin-left: 11em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i12 {display: block; margin-left: 12em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+ .poem span.i14 {display: block; margin-left: 14em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
+
+ // -->
+ /* XML end ]]>*/
+
+ </style>
+ </head>
+<body>
+
+
+<pre>
+
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
+
+Author: Various
+
+Editor: J. Potter Briscoe
+
+Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26398]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+</pre>
+
+
+
+<div class='transnote'>
+<h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3>
+
+<p>Small discrepancies in punctuation between the Table of Content and poem
+titles have been retained.</p>
+
+<p>"Cherry Ripe" and "Julia" are on pages 91 and 90 respectively, rather
+than on pages 90 and 91 as listed in the Table of Contents.</p>
+
+<p>John Dowland's poem is titled "True till death" in the Table of
+Contents, but is titled "Love's constancy" on page 95.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 257px;">
+<a href="images/fig001.jpg"><img src="images/fig001th.jpg" width="257" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 253px;">
+<a href="images/fig002.jpg"><img src="images/fig002th.jpg" width="253" height="400" alt="TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS
+COLLECTED BY
+J. POTTER BRISCOE" title="" /></a></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h1>TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS</h1>
+
+<h3>SELECTED AND EDITED BY</h3>
+
+<h2>J. POTTER BRISCOE, F.R.S.L.</h2>
+
+<h4>Editor of "The Bibelots"</h4>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 119px;">
+<img src="images/fig003.jpg" width="119" height="120" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='frontend'>
+E. P. DUTTON AND CO.<br />
+31 W. 23<span class='super'>RD</span> STREET <br />
+NEW YORK</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span></p>
+<h2>INTRODUCTION.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the
+sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of
+means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of
+making themselves acquainted with the politics, social life, literature,
+art, science, and commerce of the various nations of the same,
+especially of France, Spain, and Italy. These young Englishmen on their
+return introduced into the society in which they mixed not only the
+politenesses of these countries, but the wit of Italy, and the character
+of the poetry which was then in vogue in Southern Europe. Among these
+travellers during the reign of Henry the Eighth were Sir Thomas Wyatt
+and the Earl of Surrey. These courtiers possessed the poetical faculty,
+and therefore paid special attention to literary form. As a result they
+introduced the Sonnet of the Petrarchan type into England. The amorous
+verse of the inhabitants of these sunny climes took hold of the young
+Englishmen. Many men of rank and education, who did not regard
+themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it
+being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. During
+the reign of "Good Queen Bess" England was full of song. Of the writers
+of love verses William Watson occupied a very high, probably the
+highest, position during the time of Elizabeth. A glance at the Table of
+Contents of this volume will show that some of the best poets who were
+born between the years 1503 and 1679 have handed down to us poetical
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a></span>contributions of this character.</p>
+
+<p>Of the Elizabethan amatory verses only a small portion has been
+transmitted to us. That which possessed least literary merit did not
+long survive, and, no doubt, some of considerable merit has been lost
+too. The best has been preserved. Selections from these, arranged in
+chronological order, appear in this anthology. Richard Tottel printed
+his "Miscellany" in 1557. It is to this work, and to Richard Edwards'
+"Paradise of Dainty Devices," issued nineteen years later, that much of
+the best poetical literature of the sixteenth century has come down to
+us. The first-named passed through eight editions during thirty years:
+the last issue being dated 1587.</p>
+
+<p>From the amatory verses produced by seventy-one writers during the reign
+of Henry the Eighth and down to those of the early Georges one hundred
+and thirteen appear in this love anthology. The limitation of space
+prevents further biographical particulars being given than the years of
+birth and death, which will be found in the Table of Contents. As
+writers do not always agree in this respect, "The Dictionary of National
+Biography" has been taken as the authority.</p>
+
+<p>Whatever labour has been bestowed on the preparation of this anthology
+has not been in bulking it out to its present dimensions, but rather in
+keeping it within the prescribed limits; and, at the same time,
+furnishing these best examples of the love verses of the numerous
+authors who have been requisitioned for the purpose of this volume of
+"Tudor and Stuart Love Songs."</p>
+
+<p class='right'>J. P. B.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[ix]</a></span></p>
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="toc">
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>Page</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The lost heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The lover's appeal</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A sonnet&mdash;"Love that liveth," etc.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A vow to love faithfully</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Anon., <i>circa</i> 1530.</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>My sweet sweeting</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Turberville (1540?-1610?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The lover to his lady</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Master George: his sonnet</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Turberville's answer and distich</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The shepherd's commendation of his nymph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A renunciation</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Barnaby Googe (?) (1535?-1594).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The complaint of Harpalus</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Gascoigne (1525-1577).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A strange passion of a lover</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Edward Dyer (&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-1607).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To Phyllis, the fair shepherdess</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Peele (1558?-1596-1597?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The enamoured shepherd</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>His love admits no rival</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The shepherd's description of love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The shepherdess' reply</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[x]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love for love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Lyly (1554?-1606).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Cupid and Campaspe: Apelles' song</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A ditty&mdash;"My true love," etc.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love is dead</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>He that loves</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love's wantonness</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Rosaline</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Watson (1557?-1592?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The May Queen</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Phillida and Corydon</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Campion (<i>circa</i> 1619).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Shall I come, sweet love, to thee?</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Cherry-ripe</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robert Greene (1560?-1592).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Fair Samela</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Kinds of love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love and beauty</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love's servile lot</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir John Harrington (1561-1612).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The heart of stone</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Henry Constable (1561-1613).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A shepherd's song to his love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[xi]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love now, for roses fade</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Early love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love is a sickness</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The passionate shepherd to his love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love's omnipresence</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Michael Drayton (1563-1631).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A parting, or Love's last chance</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>William Shakespeare (1564-1616).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Who is Silvia?</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Sigh no more, ladies</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A morning song for Imogen</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Anon. (<i>circa</i> 1564).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The unfaithful shepherdess</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Anon.</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>True loveliness</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A woman's reason</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love will find out the way</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Phillida flouts me</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>In praise of two</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To his forsaken mistress</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>On women's inconstancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The three states of women</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>My love and I must part</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ben Jonson (1573?-1637).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Perfect beauty</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To Celia</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dr. John Donne (1573-1631).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[xii]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A woman's constancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Sweetest love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To Aurora</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>William Drummond (1585-1649).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Phillis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Beaumont and Fletcher (1584-1616; 1579-1625).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Take those lips away</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Tell me what is love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Pining for love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Fie on love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Wootton (<i>circa</i> 1600).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Dam&#339;tas' praise of his Daphnis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Wither (1588-1667).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Shall I, wasting in despair</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To one who, when I praised my mistress' beauty, said I was blind</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>He that loves a rosy cheek</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nathaniel Field (1587-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Matin song</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robert Herrick (1591-1674).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Cherry ripe</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Julia</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To the virgins</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To Electra</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bp. Henry King (1592-1669).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Dry those eyes</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Dowland (ed.) (1563?-1626?).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[xiii]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>True till death</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Weelkes (ed.) (1597-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Farewell, my joy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir William Davenant (1605-1606-1668).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The lark now leaves</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Edmund Waller (1606-1687).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Go, lovely rose!</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Randolph (1605-1635).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>His mistress</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Henry Vaughan (1622-1695).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Chloris</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Anon. (<i>circa</i> 1610).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love me little, love me long</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Capt. Tobias Hume (musical composer).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Fain would I change that note</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>William Habington.</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To roses in Castara's breast</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Danyel (1604?-1625?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Thou pretty bird</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Anon. (<i>temp.</i> James I.).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Once I lov'd a maiden fair</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir John Suckling (1609-1642).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>I pr'ythee send me back my heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Orsame's song&mdash;"Why so pale," etc.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Ford, composer (1607?-1648).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Since first I saw your face</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[xiv]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>The given heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Edward Sherburne (1618-1702).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Ice and fire</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Amarantha</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>To Althea, from prison</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Alexander Brome (1620-1666).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>A mock song</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Speaking and kissing</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir George Etherege (1635?-1691).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Ladies' conquering eyes</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Dorinda</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robert Gould (&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-1709?).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Celia and Sylvia</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>True love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Too late!</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>My mistress' heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Constancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Man and woman</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Matthew Prior (1664-1721).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Accept my heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).</td><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[xv]</a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>An angelic woman</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>I smile at love</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Granville (1667-1735).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Adieu l'amour</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_127">127</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>William Congreve (1670-1729).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Sabina wakes</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Inconstancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_129">129</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ambrose Philips (1675?-1709).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Love and hate</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_130">130</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Oldmixon (1673-1742).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>I lately vowed</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_131">131</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dr. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Few happy matches</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_132">132</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>John Hughes (1677-1720).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Dorinda's conquest</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_133">133</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>George Farquhar (1678-1707).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>Lovers in disguise</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_134">134</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).</td><td align='right'></td></tr>
+<tr><td class='indent'>When thy beauty appears</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_135">135</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p>
+<h1>LOVE VERSES OF THE TUDOR &amp; STUART PERIODS.</h1>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p class='heading'>THE LOST HEART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Help me to seek! For I lost it there;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, if that ye have found it, ye that be here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And seek to convey it secretly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Handle it soft and treat it tenderly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or else it will 'plain, and then appair.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But pray restore it mannerly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since that I do ask it thus honestly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to lose it, it sitteth me near;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Help me to seek!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Alas, and is there no remedy?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But have I thus lost it wilfully?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I-wis, it was a thing all too dear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To be bestowed, and wist not where!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It was mine heart! I pray you heartily<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Help me to seek!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Thomas Wyatt.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE LOVER'S APPEAL.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Say nay! say nay! for shame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To save thee from the blame<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of all my grief and grame.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Say nay! say nay!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That hath loved thee so long<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In wealth and woe among:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And is thy heart so strong<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As for to leave me thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Say nay! say nay!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That hath given thee my heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never for to depart<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Neither for pain nor smart:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Say nay! say nay!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And have no more pity<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of him that loveth thee?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Alas! thy cruelty!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wilt thou leave me thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Say nay! say nay!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Thomas Wyatt.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A SONNET.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That built his seat within my captive breast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oft in my face he doth his banner rest:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She that me taught to love and suffer pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My doubtful hope and eke my hot desire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With shamefaced cloak to shadow and restrain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And coward Love then to the heart apace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Taketh his flight, whereas he lurks and plains<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His purpose lost, and dare not show his face.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For my lord's guilt, thus faultless, bide I pains:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Sweet is his death that takes his end by love!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A VOW TO LOVE FAITHFULLY HOWSOEVER HE BE REWARDED.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In temperate heat where he is felt and seen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In presence pressed of people mad or wise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set me in high, or yet in low degree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In longest night, or in the shortest day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In hill or dale, or in the foaming flood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thrall, or at large, alive whereso I dwell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hers will I be, and only with this thought<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Content myself, although my chance be nought.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MY SWEET SWEETING.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ah, my sweet sweeting!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">My little pretty sweeting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My sweeting will I love wherever I go:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She is so proper and pure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full steadfast, stable, and demure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">There is none such, you may be sure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As my sweet sweeting.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In all this world, as thinketh me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is none so pleasant to my eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That I am glad so oft to see<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As my sweet sweeting.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When I behold my sweeting sweet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her face, her hands, her mignon feet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They seem to me there is none so sweet<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As my sweet sweeting.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon., circa 1530.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE LOVER TO HIS LADY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My girl, thou gazest much<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Upon the golden skies:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would <i>I</i> were Heaven! I would behold<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Thee then with all mine eyes!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Turberville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MASTER GEORGE: HIS SONNET OF THE PAINS OF LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Two lines shall tell the grief<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That I by love sustain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I burn, I flame, I faint, I freeze,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of Hell I feel the pain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Turberville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TURBERVILLE'S ANSWER AND DISTICH TO THE SAME.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Two lines shall teach you how<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To purchase love anew:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let reason rule, where Love did reign,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And idle thoughts eschew.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Turberville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">What shepherd can express<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The favour of her face<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To whom, in this distress,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I do appeal for grace?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A thousand Cupids fly<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">About her gentle eye;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From which each throws a dart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That kindleth soft sweet fire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Within my sighing heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Possessed by desire:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">No sweeter life I try<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Than in her love to die!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The lily in the field,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That glories in his white,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For pureness now must yield<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And render up his right;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heaven pictured in her face<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Doth promise joy and grace.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Fair Cynthia's silver light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That beats on running streams,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Compares not with her white,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose hairs are all sunbeams:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So bright my Nymph doth shine<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As day unto my eyne!<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With this, there is a red,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Exceeds the damask-rose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which in her cheeks is spread,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where every favour grows;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In sky there is no star,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But she surmounts it far.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When Ph&#339;bus from the bed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Thetis doth arise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The morning, blushing red,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In fair carnation-wise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">He shows in my Nymph's face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As Queen of every grace.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">This pleasant lily-white,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This taint of roseate red,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This Cynthia's silver light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This sweet fair Dea spread,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">These sunbeams in mine eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">These beauties, make me die!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A RENUNCIATION.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If women could be fair, and yet not fond,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I would not marvel that they make men bond<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By service long to purchase their good will;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But when I see how frail those creatures are,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I muse that men forget themselves so far.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To mark the choice they make, and how they change,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How oft from Ph&#339;bus they do flee to Pan;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unsettled still, like haggards wild they range,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These gentle birds that fly from man to man;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who would not scorn and shake them from the fist,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And let them fly, fair fools, which way they list?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yet for disport we fawn and flatter both,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To pass the time when nothing else can please,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And train them to our lure with subtle oath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till, weary of their wiles, ourselves we ease;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then we say when we their fancy try,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To play with fools, O what a fool was I!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE COMPLAINT OF HARPALUS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Phylida was a fair maid<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And fresh as any flower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom Harpalus the herdman prayed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To be his paramour.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Harpalus and eke Corin<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Were herdmen, both yfere;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Phylida could twist and spin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thereto sing full clear.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But Phylida was all too coy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For Harpalus to win;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For Corin was her only joy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who forced her not a pin.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">How often would she flowers twine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How often garlands make,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of cowslips and of columbine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all for Corin's sake!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But Corin, he had hawks to lure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And forc&egrave;d more the field;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of lovers' law he took no cure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For once he was beguiled.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Harpalus prevail&egrave;d nought;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His labour all was lost;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For he was farthest from her thoughts,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet he loved her most.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Therefore waxed he both pale and lean,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And dry as clot of clay;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His flesh it was consum&egrave;d clean,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">His colour gone away....<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">His beasts he kept upon the hill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he sate in the dale;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thus, with sighs and sorrows shrill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He gan to tell his tale.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"O Harpalus,"&mdash;thus would he say&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Unhappiest under sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The cause of thine unhappy day<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By love was first begun!...<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">O Cupid, grant this my request,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And do not stop thine ears,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she may feel within her breast<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The pains of my despairs!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of Corin that is careless,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she may crave her fee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As I have done in great distress,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That loved her faithfully!" ...<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Barnaby Googe (?).</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A STRANGE PASSION OF A LOVER.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amid my bale I bathe in bliss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I swim in Heaven, I sink in hell:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I find amends for every miss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet my moan no tongue can tell.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I live and love (what would you more?)<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As never lover lived before.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I laugh sometimes with little lust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So jest I oft and feel no joy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mine eye is builded all on trust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet mistrust breeds mine annoy.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I live and lack, I lack and have;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I have and miss the thing I crave.<br /></span>
+</div>
+<hr style='width: 35%;' />
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then like the lark that passed the night<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In heavy sleep with cares oppressed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet when she spies the pleasant light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She sends sweet notes from out her breast;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So sing I now because I think<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How joys approach when sorrows shrink.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And as fair Philomene again<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Can watch and sing when others sleep;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And taketh pleasure in her pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To wray the woe that makes her weep;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So sing I now for to bewray<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The loathsome life I lead alway.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The which to thee, dear wench, I write,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou know'st my mirth but not my moan;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I pray God grant thee deep delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To live in joys when I am gone.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I cannot live; it will not be:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I die to think to part from thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Gascoigne.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO PHYLLIS, THE FAIR SHEPHERDESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My Phyllis hath the morning sun<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">At first to look upon her:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Phyllis hath morn-waking birds<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Her rising still to honour.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My Phyllis hath prime feathered flowers<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That smile when she treads on them:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Phyllis hath a gallant flock<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That leaps since she doth own them.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But Phyllis hath too hard a heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Alas, that she should have it!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It yields no mercy to desert<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nor peace to those that crave it.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet Sun, when thou look'st on,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Pray her regard my moan!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet birds, when you sing to her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To yield some pity woo her!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet flowers, that she treads on,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Tell her, her beauty dreads one;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if in life her love she'll not agree me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Pray her before I die, she will come see me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Edward Dyer.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed!<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Thou mak'st my heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">A bloody mark,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With piercing shot to bleed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shoot soft, sweet Love! for fear thou shoot amiss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">For fear too keen<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Thy arrows been,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And hit the heart where my Belov&egrave;d is.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Too fair that fortune were, nor never I<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Shall be so blest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Among the rest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That Love shall seize on her by sympathy.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then since with Love my prayers bear no boot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">This doth remain<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">To cease my pain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I take the wound, and die at Venus' foot.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Peele.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>HIS LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall I like a hermit dwell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On a rock, or in a cell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Calling home the smallest part<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That is missing of my heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To bestow it where I may<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Meet a rival every day?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she undervalue me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What care I how fair she be?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were her tresses angel gold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If a stranger may be bold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unrebuked, unafraid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To convert them to a braid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with little more ado<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Work them into bracelets too?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If the mine be grown so free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What care I how rich it be?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were her hand as rich a prize<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As her hairs, or precious eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she lay them out to take<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Kisses, for good manners' sake:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And let every lover skip<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From her hand unto her lip;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she seem not chaste to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What care I how chaste she be?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">No; she must be perfect snow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In effect as well as show;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Warming, but as snowballs do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Not like fire, by burning too;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But when she by change hath got<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To her heart a second lot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then if others share with me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Farewell her, whate'er she be!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Walter Raleigh.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell!"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is that fountain, and that well,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where pleasure and repentance dwell;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is, perhaps, that passing bell<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That tolls us all to heaven or hell;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this is love, as I heard tell.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yet, what is love? good shepherd, saine!"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is a sunshine mix'd with rain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is a toothache, or like pain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is a game where none doth gain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The lass saith No, and would full fain!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this is love, as I hear saine.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yet, shepherd, what is love, I pray?"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is a "Yea," it is a "Nay,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A pretty kind of sporting fray;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is a thing will soon away;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then, nymphs, take vantage while ye may,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this is love, as I hear say.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yet what is love? good shepherd, show!"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A thing that creeps, it cannot go,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">A prize that passeth to and fro,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A thing for one, a thing for moe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he that proves shall find it so;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, shepherd, this is love, I trow.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Walter Raleigh.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE SHEPHERDESS'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If all the world and Love were young,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And truth in every shepherd's tongue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These pretty pleasures might me move<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To live with thee and be thy love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But time drives flocks from field to fold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then Philomel becometh dumb,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The rest complains of cares to come.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The flowers do fade, and wanton fields<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To wayward winter reckoning yields;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A honey tongue, a heart of gall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is fancy's spring: but sorrow's fall.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy cup, thy kirtle, and thy posies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten;&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In folly ripe, in reason rotten.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The belt of straw and ivy-buds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy coral clasps and amber studs,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All these in me no means can move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To come to thee, and be thy love.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">What should we talk of dainties, then,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of better meat than's fit for men?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These are but vain: that's only good<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which God hath bless'd and sent for food.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But could youth last, and love still breed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had joys no date, nor age no need;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then those delights my mind might move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To live with thee, and be thy love.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Walter Raleigh.</p>
+
+<p class='comment'>[See "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," page 50.]</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE FOR LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Away with these self-loving lads<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom Cupid's arrow never glads!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Away, poor souls, that sigh and weep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In love of them that lie and sleep!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For Cupid is a merry god,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And forceth none to kiss the rod.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sweet Cupid's shafts, like Destiny,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do causeless good or ill decree;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Desert is borne out of his bow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reward upon his wing doth go:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What fools are they that have not known<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That Love likes no laws but his own!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My songs, they be of Cynthia's praise:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wear her rings on holy days;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On every tree I write her name,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And every day I read the same:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Where Honour Cupid's rival is,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">There miracles are seen of his.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If Cynthia crave her ring of me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I blot her name out of the tree;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If doubt do darken things held dear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then "farewell nothing," once a year:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For many run, but one must win;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Fools only hedge the cuckoo in.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The worth that worthiness should move<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is love, which is the due of love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And love as well the shepherd can<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As can the mighty nobleman:&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Sweet nymph, 'tis true, you worthy be;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Yet, without love, nought worth to me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Fulke-Greville, Lord Brooke.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE: APELLES' SONG.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Cupid and my Campaspe played<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He stakes his quiver, bows and arrows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His mother's doves and team of sparrows;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loses them too; then down he throws<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The coral of his lip, the rose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Growing on 's cheek, but none knows how;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With these the crystal of his brow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then the dimple of his chin&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All these did my Campaspe win.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At last he set her both his eyes.&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She won, and Cupid blind did rise.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O Love, has she done this to thee?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What shall, alas! become of me?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Lyly.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A DITTY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By just exchange one to the other given:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There never was a better bargain driven:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">His heart in me keeps him and me in one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He loves my heart, for once it was his own,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I cherish his because in me it bides:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Philip Sidney.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE IS DEAD.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For Love is dead:<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">All Love is dead, infected<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With plague of deep disdain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Worth, as nought worth, rejected,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Faith fair scorn doth gain.<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From so ungrateful fancy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From such a female franzy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From them that use men thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Good Lord, deliver us!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Weep, neighbours, weep; do you not hear it said<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That Love is dead?<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">His death-bed, peacock's folly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His winding-sheet is shame;<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">His will, false-seeming holy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His sole executor, blame.<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From so ungrateful fancy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From such a female franzy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From them that use men thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Good Lord, deliver us!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Let dirge be sung, and trentals rightly read,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For Love is dead;<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">My mistress' marble heart;<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Which epitaph containeth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Her eyes were once his dart</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From so ungrateful fancy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From such a female franzy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">From them that use men thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Good Lord, deliver us!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Alas, I lie; rage hath this error bred;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love is not dead;<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Love is not dead, but sleepeth<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In his unmatch&egrave;d mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Where she his counsel keepeth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till due deserts she find:<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Therefore from so vile fancy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">To call such wit a franzy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Who Love can temper thus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Good Lord, deliver us!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Philip Sidney.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>HE THAT LOVES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He that loves and fears to try,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Learns his mistress to deny.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth she chide thee? 'tis to show it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That thy coldness makes her do it.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is she silent, is she mute?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Silence fully grants thy suit.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth she pout and leave the room?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then she goes to bid thee come.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Is she sick? why then be sure<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She invites thee to the cure.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth she cross thy suit with "No"?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tush! she loves to hear thee woo.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth she call the faith of men<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In question? nay, she loves thee then,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if e'er she makes a blot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She's lost if that thou hit'st her not.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He that after ten denials<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth attempt no further trials,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath no warrant to acquire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The dainties of his chaste desire.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Philip Sidney.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE'S WANTONNESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love guards the roses of thy lips,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And flies about them like a bee:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If I approach, he forward skips,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And if I kiss, he stingeth me.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love in thine eyes doth build his bower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And sleeps within their pretty shine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if I look, the boy will lower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And from their orbs shoot shafts divine.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love works thy heart within his fire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And in my tears doth firm the same;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if I tempt, it will retire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And of my plaints doth make a game.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love, let me cull her choicest flowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And pity me, and calm her eye;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make soft her heart, dissolve her lowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then will I praise thy deity,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But if thou do not, Love, I'll truly serve her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Lodge.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ROSALINE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Like to the clear in highest sphere<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where all imperial glory shines,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of selfsame colour is her hair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whether unfolded, or in twines:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her eyes are sapphires set in snow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Resembling heaven by every wink;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Gods do fear whenas they glow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I do tremble when I think<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, would she were mine!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That beautifies Aurora's face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or like the silver crimson shroud<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That Ph&#339;bus' smiling looks doth grace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her lips are like two budded roses<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Within which bounds she balm encloses<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Apt to entice a deity:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, would she were mine!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her neck is like a stately tower<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where Love himself imprison'd lies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To watch for glances every hour<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From her divine and sacred eyes:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, for Rosaline!<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Her paps are centres of delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her breasts are orbs of heavenly frame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where Nature moulds the dew of light<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To feed perfection with the same:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, would she were mine!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With orient pearl, with ruby red,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With marble white, with sapphire blue<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her body every way is fed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet soft in touch and sweet in view:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nature herself her shape admires;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Gods are wounded in her sight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Love forsakes his heavenly fires<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And at her eyes his brand doth light:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, would she were mine!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The absence of fair Rosaline,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since for a fair there's fairer none,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor for her virtues so divine:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh ho, fair Rosaline;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Lodge.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE MAY QUEEN.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With fragrant flowers we strew the way,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And make this our chief holiday;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For though this clime were blest of yore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet was it never proud before.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">O beauteous Queen of second Troy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Accept of our unfeign&egrave;d joy!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now th' air is sweeter than sweet balm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And satyrs dance about the palm;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now earth, with verdure newly dight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gives perfect signs of her delight.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">O beauteous Queen of second Troy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Accept of our unfeign&egrave;d joy!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now birds recall new harmony,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And trees do whistle melody;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now everything that nature breeds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth clad itself in pleasant weeds.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">O beauteous Queen of second Troy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Accept of our unfeign&egrave;d joy!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Watson.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the merry month of May,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In a morn by break of day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a troop of damsels playing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forth I rode, forsooth, a-maying,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When anon by a woodside,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where as May was in his pride,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I espied, all alone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Phillida and Corydon.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Much ado there was, God wot!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He would love, and she would not:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She said, never man was true:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He said, none was false to you.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He said, he had loved her long:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She said, love should have no wrong.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Corydon would kiss her then,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She said, maids must kiss no men,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till they do for good and all;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then she made the shepherd call<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the heavens to witness truth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never loved a truer youth.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus with many a pretty oath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yea, and nay, and faith and troth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such as silly shepherds use<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When they will not love abuse;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Love, which had been long deluded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was with kisses sweet concluded:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Phillida with garlands gay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was made the lady of the May.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Richard Breton.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SHALL I COME, SWEET LOVE?</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">When the evening beams are set?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall I not excluded be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Will you find no feigned let?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let me not, for pity, more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell the long hours at your door.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Who can tell what thief or foe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In the covert of the night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For his prey will work my woe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or through wicked foul despite?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So may I die unredrest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ere my long love be possest.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But to let such dangers pass,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Which a lover's thoughts disdain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis enough in such a place<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To attend love's joys in vain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do not mock me in thy bed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While these cold nights freeze me dead.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Campion.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CHERRY-RIPE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There is a garden in her face<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Where roses and white lilies blow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A heavenly paradise that place,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There cherries grow that none may buy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Those cherries fairly do enclose<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of orient pearl a double row,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which when her lovely laughter shows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet them no peer nor prince may buy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her eyes like angels watch them still;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Her brows like bended bows do stand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All that approach with eye or hand<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These sacred cherries to come nigh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Campion.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FAIR SAMELA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Like to Diana in her summer weed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Goes fair Samela;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When wash'd by Arethusa's fount they lie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Is fair Samela;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As fair Aurora in her morning gray,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Is fair Samela;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Like lovely Thetis on a calm&egrave;d day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Shines fair Samela;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Of fair Samela;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her cheeks, like rose and lily, yield forth gleams,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her brows, bright arches fram'd of ebony;<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Thus fair Samela<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Juno in the show of majesty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">(For she's Samela!)<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Pallas in wit,&mdash;all three, if you well view,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">Yield to Samela.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Greene.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>KINDS OF LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Foolish love is only folly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wanton love is too unholy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Greedy love is covetous;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Idle love is frivolous;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the gracious love is it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That doth prove the work of wit.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Beauty but deceives the eye;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Flattery leads the ear awry;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wealth doth but enchant the wit;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Want, the overthrow of it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While in Wisdom's worthy grace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Virtue sees the sweetest face.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There hath Love found out his life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Peace without all thought of strife;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Kindness in Discretion's care;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Truth, that clearly doth declare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Faith doth in true fancy prove,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lust the excrements of Love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then in faith may fancy see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How my love may constru&egrave;d be;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How it grows and what it seeks;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How it lives and what it likes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So in highest grace regard it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or in lowest scorn discard it.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Greene.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE AND BEAUTY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Pretty twinkling starry eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How did Nature first devise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such a sparkling in your sight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As to give Love such delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As to make him like a fly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Play with looks until he die?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sure ye were not made at first<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For such mischief to be curst;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As to kill Affection's care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That doth only truth declare;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where worth's wonders never wither,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love and Beauty live together.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Blessed eyes, then give your blessing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That in passion's best expressing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love that only lives to grace ye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">May not suffer pride deface ye;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But in gentle thought's directions<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Show the power of your perfections.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Greene.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE'S SERVILE LOT.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love mistress is of many minds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet few know whom they serve;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They reckon least how little hope<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their service doth deserve.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The will she robbeth from the wit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sense from reason's lore;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She is delightful in the rind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Corrupted in the core.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">May never was the month of love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For May is full of flowers;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But rather April, wet by kind;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For love is full of showers.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With soothing words inthrall&egrave;d souls<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She chains in servile bands!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her eye in silence hath a speech<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which eye best understands.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her little sweet hath many sours,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Short hap, immortal harms;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her loving looks are murdering darts,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her songs bewitching charms.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Like winter rose, and summer ice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her joys are still untimely;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Before her hope, behind remorse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fair first, in fine unseemly.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leave off your idle pain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seek other mistress for your minds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love's service is in vain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Southwell.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE HEART OF STONE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It was from cheeks that shame the rose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From lips that spoil the ruby's praise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From eyes that mock the diamond's blaze:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whence comes my woe? as freely own;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ah me! 'twas from a heart like stone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The lips befitting words most kind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The eye does tempt to love's desire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And seems to say, "'Tis Cupid's fire;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet all so fair but speak my moan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since nought doth say the heart of stone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why thus, my love, so kind bespeak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet eye, sweet lip, sweet blushing cheek,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet not a heart to save my pain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O Venus, take thy gifts again!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make not so fair to cause our moan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or make a heart that's like your own.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Harrington.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A SHEPHERD'S SONG TO HIS LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">White as the sun, fair as the lily,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Heigh-ho, how I do love thee!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I do love thee as my lambs<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are belov&egrave;d of their dams:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">How blest I were if thou would'st prove me!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Diaphenia, like the spreading roses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That in thy sweets all sweets encloses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Fair sweet, how I do love thee!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I do love thee as each flower<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loves the sun's life-giving power;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Diaphenia, like to all things bless&egrave;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When all thy praises are express&egrave;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Dear joy, how I do love thee!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the birds do love the spring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or the bees their careful king:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then, in requite, sweet virgin, love me!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Henry Constable.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE NOW, FOR ROSES FADE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The image of thy blush, and summer's honour!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whilst yet her tender bud doth undisclose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That full of beauty Time bestows upon her:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No sooner spreads her glory in the air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But straight her wide-blown pomp comes to decline;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She then is scorn'd, that late adorn'd the fair.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So fade the roses of those cheeks of thine!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">No April can revive thy withered flowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose springing grace adorns thy glory now:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then do not thou such treasure waste in vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But love now, whilst thou may'st be loved again.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Samuel Daniel.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>EARLY LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ah! I remember well (and how can I<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But evermore remember well) when first<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The flame we felt; when as we sat and sigh'd<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And look'd upon each other, and conceived<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Not what we ail'd&mdash;yet something we did ail;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet were well, and yet we were not well,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And what was our disease we could not tell.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look; and thus<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In that first garden of our simpleness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We spent our childhood. But when years began<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would she with graver looks, with sweet, stern brow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Check my presumption and my forwardness;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What she would have me, yet not have me know.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Samuel Daniel.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE IS A SICKNESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love is a sickness full of woes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All remedies refusing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A plant that most with cutting grows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Most barren with best using.<br /></span>
+<span class="i5">Why so?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">More we enjoy it, more it dies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,<br /></span>
+<span class="i5">Heigh-ho!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love is a torment of the mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A tempest everlasting;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Jove hath made it of a kind<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Not well, nor full nor fasting.<br /></span>
+<span class="i5">Why so?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">More we enjoy it, more it dies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,<br /></span>
+<span class="i5">Heigh-ho!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Samuel Daniel.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come live with me, and be my love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And we will all the pleasures prove<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Woods or steepy mountain yields.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And we will sit upon the rocks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By shallow rivers, to whose falls<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Melodious birds sing madrigals.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And I will make thee beds of roses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a thousand fragrant posies:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A gown made of the finest wool,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which from our pretty lambs we'll pull;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fair lined slippers for the cold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With buckles of the purest gold.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A belt of straw and ivy buds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With coral clasps and amber studs:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if these pleasures may thee move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come live with me and be my love.<br /></span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p>
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The shepherd swains shall dance and sing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For thy delight each May morning.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If these delights thy mind may move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come live with me and be my love.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Christopher Marlowe.</p>
+
+<p class='comment'>[See "The Shepherdess's Reply to The Passionate Pilgrim," page 22.]</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were I as base as is the lowly plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were I as high as heaven above the plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And you, my Love, as humble and as low<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As are the deepest bottoms of the main,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My love should shine on you like to the sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And look upon you with ten thousand eyes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whereso'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>J. Sylvester.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A PARTING; OR, LOVE'S LAST CHANCE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That thus so clearly I myself can free.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And, when we meet at any time again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be it not seen in either of our brows<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That we one jot of former love retain.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now, at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And Innocence is closing up his eyes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From death to life thou mightst him yet recover.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Michael Drayton.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>WHO IS SILVIA?</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Who is Silvia? What is she,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That all our swains commend her?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Holy, fair, and wise is she:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The heavens such grace did lend her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she might admired be.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Is she kind as she is fair?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For beauty lives with kindness.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love doth to her eyes repair<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To help him of his blindness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, being helped, inhabits there.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then to Silvia let us sing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That Silvia is excelling;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She excels each mortal thing<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Upon the dull earth dwelling:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To her let us garlands bring.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Shakespeare.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SIGH NO MORE, LADIES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Men were deceivers ever,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One foot in sea and one on shore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To one thing constant never:<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Then sigh not so,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">But let them go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And be you blithe and bonny,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Converting all your sounds of woe<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Into, Hey nonny, nonny.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sing no more ditties, sing no moe<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of dumps so dull and heavy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The fraud of men was ever so,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Since summer first was leafy.<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Then sigh not so,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">But let them go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And be you blithe and bonny,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Converting all your sounds of woe<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Into, Hey nonny, nonny.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Shakespeare.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And Ph&#339;bus 'gins arise';<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His steeds to water at those springs<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">On chalic'd flowers that lies;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And winking Mary-buds begin<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To ope their golden eyes:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With everything that pretty is,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">My lady sweet arise:<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Arise, arise.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Shakespeare.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While that the sun with his beams hot<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scorch&egrave;d the fruits in vale and mountain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Philon the shepherd, late forgot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sitting beside a crystal fountain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In shadow of a green oak tree<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Upon his pipe this song play'd he:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So long as I was in your sight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I was your heart, your soul, and treasure;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And evermore you sobb'd and sigh'd<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Burning in flames beyond all measure:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">&mdash;Three days endured your love to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And it was lost in other three!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Another Shepherd you did see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To whom your heart was soon enchain&egrave;d;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full soon your love was leapt from me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full soon my place he had obtain&egrave;d.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Soon came a third, your love to win,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And we were out and he was in.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sure you have made me passing glad<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That you your mind so soon remov&egrave;d,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Before that I the leisure had<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To choose you for my best belov&egrave;d:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For all your love was past and done<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Two days before it was begun:&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon., circa 1564.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TRUE LOVELINESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">It is not Beauty I demand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A crystal brow, the moon's despair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair:<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tell me not of your starry eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your lips that seem on roses fed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed:&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A breath that softer music speaks<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than summer winds a-wooing flowers,<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">These are but gauds: nay, what are lips?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Coral beneath the ocean-stream,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose brink when your adventurer slips,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full oft he perisheth on them.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And what are cheeks, but ensigns oft<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That wave hot youth to fields of blood?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Did Helen's breast, though ne'er so soft,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do Greece or Ilium any good?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Eyes can with baleful ardour burn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Poison can breathe, that erst perfumed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's many a white hand holds an urn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For crystal brows there's nought within,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They are but empty cells for pride;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who the Siren's hair would win<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is mostly strangled in the tide.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A tender heart, a loyal mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which with temptation I would trust,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet never link'd with error find,&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">One in whose gentle bosom I<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Could pour my secret heart of woes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That hides his murmurs in the rose,&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My earthly Comforter! whose love<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So indefeasible might be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That when my spirit wonn'd above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hers could not stay, for sympathy.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A WOMAN'S REASON.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love me not for comely grace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For my pleasing eye or face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor for any outward part;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No! nor for my constant heart,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For these may fail, or turn to ill;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">So thou and I shall sever:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And love me well, but know not why.<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So hast thou the same reason still<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To dote upon me ever!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Over the mountains<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And over the waves,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Under the fountains<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And under the graves;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Under floods that are deepest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Which Neptune obey;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over rocks that are steepest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Love will find out the way.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Where there is no place<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For the glow-worm to lie;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where there is no space<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For receipt of a fly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the midge dares not venture,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Lest herself fast she lay;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If love come, he will enter<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And soon find out his way.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">You may esteem him<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A child for his might;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or you may deem him<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A coward for his flight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But if she whom Love doth honour<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Be concealed from the day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set a thousand guards upon her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Love will find out the way.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Some think to lose him<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">By having him confin'd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And some do suppose him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Poor thing, to be blind;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But if ne'er so close you wall him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Do the best that you may;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blind Love, if so ye call him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Will find out his way.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">You may train the eagle<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To stoop to your fist;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or you may inveigle<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The Ph&#339;nix of the East;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The lioness, you may move her<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To give o'er her prey;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But you will never stop a lover&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">He will find out his way.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oh, what a plague is love!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I cannot bear it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She will inconstant prove,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I greatly fear it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It so torments my mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That my heart faileth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She wavers with the wind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As a ship saileth;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Please her the best I may,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She looks another way;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Alack and well a-day!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Phillida flouts me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I often heard her say<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That she loved posies:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the last month of May<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I gave her roses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cowslips and gillyflow'rs<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And the sweet lily,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I got to deck the bow'rs<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of my dear Philly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She did them all disdain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And threw them back again;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therefore, 'tis flat and plain<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Phillida flouts me.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Which way soe'er I go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She still torments me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And whatsoe'er I do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nothing contents me:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I fade, and pine away<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">With grief and sorrow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I fall quite to decay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Like any shadow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since 'twill no better be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I'll bear it patiently;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet all the world may see<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Phillida flouts me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Circa 1610.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>IN PRAISE OF TWO.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Faustina hath the fairest face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Phillida the better grace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Both have mine eye enriched:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This sings full sweetly with her voice;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her fingers make so sweet a noise:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Both have mine ear bewitched.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ah me! sith Fates have so provided,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My heart, alas! must be divided.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Anon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And I might have gone near to love thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had I not found the slightest prayer<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That lips could speak, had power to move thee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But I can let thee now alone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As worthy to be loved by none.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy favours are but like the wind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That kisses everything it meets;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And since thou can with more than one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The morning rose that untouch'd stands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Arm'd with her briars, how sweetly smells;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But, pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Her sweet no longer with her dwells.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But scent and beauty both are gone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And leaves fall from her, one by one.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Such fate ere long will thee betide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">When thou hast handled been a while;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Like sere flowers to be thrown aside;&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And I will sigh, while some will smile,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To see thy love for more than one<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath brought thee to be loved by none.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Robert Aytoun.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ON WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I Lov'd thee once, I'll love no more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Thine be the grief as is the blame;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou art not what thou wert before,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What reason I should be the same?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He that can love unlov'd again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Hath better store of love than brain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">God send me love my debts to pay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">While unthrifts fool their love away.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Nothing could have my love o'erthrown,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If thou hadst still continued mine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yea, if thou hadst remain'd thy own,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I might perchance have yet been thine.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But thou thy freedom did recall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That if thou might elsewhere inthral;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And then how could I but disdain<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A captive's captive to remain?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When new desires had conquer'd thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And chang'd the object of thy will,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It had been lethargy in me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Not constancy to love thee still.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Yea it had been a sin to go<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And prostitute affection so,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Since we are taught no prayers to say<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To such as must to others pray.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yet do thou glory in thy choice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Thy choice of his good fortune's boast;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To see him gain what I have lost;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The height of my disdain shall be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To laugh at him, to blush for thee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To love thee still, but go no more<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A-begging to a beggar's door.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Robert Aytoun.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE THREE STATES OF WOMAN.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In a maiden-time profess'd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then we say that life is bless'd;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tasting once the married life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then we only praise the wife;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's but one state more to try,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which makes women laugh or cry&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Widow, widow: of these three<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The middle's best, and that give me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Middleton.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MY LOVE AND I MUST PART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Weep eyes, break heart!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My love and I must part.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cruel fates true love do soonest sever;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O, I shall see thee never, never, never!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O, happy is the maid whose life takes end<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ere it knows parent's frown or loss of friend!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Weep eyes, break heart!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My love and I must part.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Middleton.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>PERFECT BEAUTY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">It was a beauty that I saw,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So pure, so perfect, as the frame<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of all the universe was lame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To that one figure, could I draw,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or give least line of it a law!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A skein of silk without a knot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A fair march made without a halt,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A curious form without a fault,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A printed book without a blot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All beauty, and without a spot!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Ben Jonson.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO CELIA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Drink to me only with thine eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And I will pledge with mine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or leave a kiss but in the cup,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And I'll not look for wine.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The thirst that from the soul doth rise<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Doth ask a drink divine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But might I of Jove's nectar sup,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I would not change for thine.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I sent thee late a rosy wreath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Not so much honouring thee<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As giving it a hope that there<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">It could not withered be:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But thou thereon didst only breathe<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And sent'st it back to me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Not of itself, but thee!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Ben Jonson.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now thou hast loved me one whole day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To-morrow, when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wilt thou then ante-date some new-made vow?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or say, that now<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We are not just those persons which we were?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or, that oaths made in reverential fear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Love and his wrath any may forswear?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So lovers' contracts, images of those,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bind but till Sleep, Death's image, them unloose?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or, your own end to justify<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For having purposed change and falsehood, you<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Can have no way but falsehood to be true?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vain lunatic! Against these scapes I could<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Dispute and conquer if I would;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which I abstain to do;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For, by to-morrow, I may think so too.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Dr. John Donne.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SWEETEST LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sweetest love, I do not go<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For weariness of thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor in hope the world can show<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A fitter love for me.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But since that I<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must die at last, 'tis best<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thus to use myself in jest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By feigned death to die.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yester-night the sun went hence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet is here to-day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He hath no desire nor sense,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor half so short a way:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then fear not me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But believe that I shall make<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hastier journeys, since I take<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">More wings and spurs than he.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Dr. John Donne.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO AURORA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then would'st thou melt the ice out of thy breast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thy relenting heart would kindly warm.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O, if thy pride did not our joys control,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What world of loving wonders should'st thou see!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For if I saw thee once transform'd in me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then all my thoughts should in thy visage shine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No, I would have my share in what were thine:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">This happy harmony would make them none.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>W. Alexander, Earl of Stirling.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>PHILLIS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In petticoat of green,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her hair about her eyne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Phillis, beneath an oak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sat milking her fair flock.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Mongst that sweet-strained moisture, rare delight!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her hand seem'd milk, in milk it was so white.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Drummond.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Take, O, take those lips away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That so sweetly were forsworn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And those eyes, the break of day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Lights that do mislead the morn:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But my kisses bring again, bring again;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hide, O, hide those hills of snow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Which thy frozen bosom bears,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On whose tops the pinks that grow<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Are of those that April wears;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But first set my poor heart free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bound in icy chains by thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Beaumont and Fletcher.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TELL ME, WHAT IS LOVE?</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tell me, dearest, what is love?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis a lightning from above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis a boy they call Desire.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">'Tis a grave<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Gapes to have<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Those poor fools that long to prove.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tell me more, are women true?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yes, some are, and some as you;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some are willing, some are strange,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since you men first taught to change.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And till truth<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Be in both<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All shall love to love anew.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tell me more yet, can they grieve?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yes, and sicken sore, but live:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And be wise and delay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When you men are as wise as they.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Then I see<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Faith will be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never till they both believe.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Francis Beaumont.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>PINING FOR LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">How long shall I pine for love?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">How long shall I sue in vain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How long like the turtle-dove,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Shall I heartily thus complain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall the sails of my heart stand still?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Shall the grists of my hope be unground?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh fie, oh fie, oh fie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Let the mill, let the mill go round.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Francis Beaumont.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FIE ON LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now fie on foolish love, it not befits<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or man or woman know it.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love was not meant for people in their wits,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And they that fondly show it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Betray the straw, and features in their brain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And shall have Bedlam for their pain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If simple love be such a curse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To marry is to make it ten times worse.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Francis Beaumont.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>DAM&#338;TAS' PRAISE OF HIS DAPHNIS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tune on my pipe the praises of my love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Love fair and bright;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fill earth with sound, and airy heavens above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Heavens Jove's delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With Daphnis' praise.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her tresses are like wires of beaten gold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Gold bright and sheen;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like Nisus' golden hair that Scylla poll'd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Scyll o'erseen<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Through Minos' love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her eyes like shining lamps in midst of night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Night dark and dead:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or as the stars that give the seamen light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Light for to lead<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Their wandering ships.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amidst her cheeks the rose and lily strive,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Lily snow-white:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When their cont&eacute;st doth make their colour thrive,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Colour too bright<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For shepherds' eyes.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her lips like scarlet of the finest dye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Scarlet blood-red:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Teeth white as snow, which on the hills do lie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Hills overspread<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">By winter's force.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Her skin as soft as is the finest silk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Silk soft and fine:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of colour like unto the whitest milk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Milk of the kine<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of Daphnis' herd.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As swift of foot as is the pretty roe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Roe swift of pace:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When yelping hounds pursue her to and fro,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Hounds fierce in chase<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To reave her life.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Cease to tell of any more compare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Compares too rude,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Daphnis' deserts and beauty are too rare:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Then here conclude<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Fair Daphnis' praise.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Wootton.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall I, wasting in despair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Die because a woman's fair?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or my cheeks make pale with care,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cause another's rosy are?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be she fairer than the day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or the flowery meads in May,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If she be not so to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What care I how fair she be?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall my foolish heart be pined<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cause I see a woman kind;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or a well-dispos&egrave;d nature<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Join&egrave;d with a lovely feature?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be she meeker, kinder, than<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Turtle-dove or pelican,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If she be not so to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What care I how kind she be?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall a woman's virtues move<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Me to perish for her love?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or her merit's value known,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make me quite forget mine own?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be she with that goodness blest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which may gain her name of Best;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If she seem not such to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What care I how good she be?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">'Cause her fortune seems too high,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall I play the fool and die?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Those that bear a noble mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where they want, of riches find.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Think what with them they would do<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who without them dare to woo:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And unless that mind I see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What care I tho' great she be?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Great or good, or kind or fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I will ne'er the more despair;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she love me, this believe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I will die ere she shall grieve;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she slight me when I woo,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I can scorn and let her go;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For if she be not for me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What care I for whom she be?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Wither.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAISED MY MISTRESS'S BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Wonder not, though I am blind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">For you must be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dark in your eyes, or in your mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">If, when you see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her face, you prove not blind like me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If the powerful beams that fly<br /></span>
+<span class="i11">From her eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And those amorous sweets that lie<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scatter'd in each neighbouring part,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Find a passage to your heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then you'll confess your mortal sight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Too weak for such a glorious light:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For if her graces you discover,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You grow, like me, a dazzled lover;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But if those beauties you not spy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then are you blinder far than I.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Carew.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He that loves a rosy cheek,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or a coral lip admires,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or from star-like eyes doth seek<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Fuel to maintain his fires;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As old Time makes these decay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So his flames must waste away.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But a smooth and steadfast mind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Gentle thoughts and calm desires,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hearts with equal love combined,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Kindle never-dying fires;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where these are not, I despise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Carew.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MATIN SONG.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Rise, Lady Mistress! rise!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The night hath tedious been;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No sleep hath fallen into mine eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nor slumbers made me sin.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is not she a saint, then, say!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thought of whom keeps sin away?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Rise, madam! rise, and give me light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Whom darkness still will cover,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And ignorance, more dark than night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Till thou smile on thy lover.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All want day till thy beauty rise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the gray morn breaks from thine eyes.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Nathaniel Field.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>JULIA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Some asked me where the rubies grew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And nothing did I say,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But with my finger pointed to<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The lips of Julia.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Some asked how pearls did grow, and where;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then spake I to my girl,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To part her lips and show me there<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The quarelets of pearl.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">One asked me where the roses grew;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I bade him not go seek,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But forthwith bade my Julia show<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A bud in either cheek.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Herrick.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CHERRY RIPE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe," I cry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Full and fair ones&mdash;come and buy;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If so be you ask me where<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They do grow? I answer, "There,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where my Julia's lips do smile;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's the land, or cherry-isle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose plantations fully show<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the year where cherries grow!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Herrick.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO THE VIRGINS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Old Time is still a-flying;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this same flower that smiles to-day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To-morrow will be dying.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The higher he's a-getting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sooner will his race be run,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And nearer he's to setting.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">That age is best which is the first,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">When youth and blood are warmer;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But being spent, the worse and worst<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Times still succeed the former.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then be not coy, but use your time,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And while ye may, go marry;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For having lost but once your prime,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">You may for ever tarry.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Herrick.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO ELECTRA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I dare not ask a kiss;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I dare not beg a smile;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lest having that or this,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I might grow proud the while.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">No, no, the utmost share<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of my desire shall be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Only to kiss that air<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That lately kiss&egrave;d thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Herrick.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>DRY THOSE EYES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Dry those fair, those crystal eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which like growing fountains rise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To drown their banks! Grief's sullen brooks<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would better flow in furrow'd looks:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy lovely face was never meant<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To be the shore of discontent.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then clear those waterish stars again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which else portend a lasting rain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lest the clouds which settle there<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Prolong my winter all the year,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thy example others make<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In love with sorrow, for thy sake.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Dr. Henry King.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE'S CONSTANCY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet, if you shrink, I'll never think of love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fair, if you fail, I'll judge all beauty vain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wise, if too weak, more wits I'll never prove.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dear, sweet, fair, wise,&mdash;change, shrink, nor be not weak;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, on my faith, my faith shall never break.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Earth with her flowers shall sooner heaven adorn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heaven her bright stars through earth's dim globe shall move;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fire heat shall lose, and frosts of flames be born;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Air, made to shine, as black as hell shall prove:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Earth, heaven, fire, air, the world transformed shall view,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ere I prove false to faith, or strange to you.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Dowland.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FAREWELL, MY JOY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Farewell! my joy!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Adieu! my love and pleasure!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To sport and toy<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">We have no longer leisure.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Fa la la!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Farewell! adieu!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Until our next consorting!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet love, be true!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And thus we end our sporting.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Fa la la!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Weelkes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE LARK NOW LEAVES HIS WAT'RY NEST.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And climbing, shakes his dewy wings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He takes your window for the east,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And to implore your light, he sings;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Awake, awake, the morn will never rise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The merchant bows unto the seaman's star,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The ploughman from the sun his season takes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But still the lover wonders what they are,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Who look for day before his mistress wakes.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Awake, awake, break through your veils of lawn,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir William Davenant.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>GO, LOVELY ROSE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Go, lovely Rose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell her that wastes her time and me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That now she knows<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I resemble her to thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How sweet and fair she seems to be.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tell her that's young,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And shuns to have her graces spied,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That had'st thou sprung<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In deserts where no men abide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou must have uncommended died.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Small is the worth<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of beauty from the light retired;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bid her come forth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Suffer herself to be desired,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And not blush so to be admired.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then die, that she<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The common fate of all things rare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">May read in thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How small a part of time they share<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who are so wondrous sweet and fair!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Edmund Waller.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>HIS MISTRESS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I have a mistress, for perfections rare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In every eye, but in my thoughts most fair.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wheresoe'er my fancy would begin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still her perfection lets religion in.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I touch her, like my beads, with devout care,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And come unto my courtship as my prayer.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Randolph.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CHLORIS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amyntas, go! Thou art undone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Thy faithful heart is crossed by fate;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That love is better not begun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Where love is come to love too late.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yet who that saw fair Chloris weep<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Such sacred dew, with such pure grace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Durst think them feign&egrave;d tears, or seek<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For treason in an angel's face.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Henry Vaughan.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love me little, love me long,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Is the burden of my song;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love that is too hot and strong<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Burneth soon to waste;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still I would not have thee cold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or backward, or too bold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For love that lasteth till 'tis old<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Fadeth not in haste.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Winter's cold, or summer's heat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Autumn tempests on it beat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It can never know defeat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Never can rebel;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such the love that I would gain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Such love, I tell thee plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That thou must give or love in vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So to thee farewell.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Circa 1610.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FAIN WOULD I CHANGE THAT NOTE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Fain would I change that note<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To which fond love hath charm'd me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Long, long to sing by rote,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fancying that that harm'd me:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet when this thought doth come,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Love is the perfect sum<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of all delight,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I have no other choice<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Either for pen or voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To sing or write.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O Love, they wrong thee much<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That say thy sweet is bitter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When thy rich fruit is such<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As nothing can be sweeter.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fair house of joy and bliss<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where truest pleasure is,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I do adore thee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I know thee what thou art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I serve thee with my heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And fall before thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Captain Tobias Hume.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO ROSES IN CASTARA'S BREAST.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ye blushing Virgins happy are<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In the chaste Nunn'ry of her breasts,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For he'd profane so chaste a fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Whoe'er should call them Cupid's nests.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Transplanted thus how bright ye grow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">How rich a perfume do ye yield?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In some close garden, cowslips so<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Are sweeter than in th' open field.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In those white Cloisters live secure<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">From the rude blasts of wanton breath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each hour more innocent and pure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Till you shall wither into death.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then that which living gave you room,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Your glorious sepulchre shall be;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There wants no marble for a tomb,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Whose breast hath marble been to me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Habington.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THOU PRETTY BIRD.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thou pretty bird, how do I see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy silly state and mine agree!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For thou a prisoner art;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So is my heart.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou sing'st to her, and so do I address<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My music to her ear that's merciless;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But herein doth the difference lie,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That thou art graced; so am not I;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou singing livest, and I must singing die.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Danyel.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ONCE I LOV'D A MAIDEN FAIR.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Once I lov'd a maiden fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But she did deceive me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She with Venus might compare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In my mind, believe me:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She was young, and among<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All our maids the sweetest.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now I say, ah! well-a-day!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Brightest hopes are fleetest.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I the wedding ring had got,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Wedding clothes provided,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sure the church would bind a knot<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Ne'er to be divided:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Married we straight must be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She her vows had plighted;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vows, alas! as frail as glass:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All my hopes are blighted.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Maidens wav'ring and untrue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Many a heart have broken;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweetest lips the world e'er knew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Falsest words have spoken.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fare thee well, faithless girl,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I'll not sorrow for thee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Once I held thee dear as pearl,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Now I do abhor thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Temp. Jas. I. (condensed by T. Oxenford).</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>I PR'YTHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I pr'ythee send me back my heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Since I cannot have thine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For if from yours you will not part,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Why then shouldst thou have mine?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yet now I think on't, let it lie;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To find it were in vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For thou'st a thief in either eye<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Would steal it back again.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why should two hearts in one breast lie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And yet not lodge together?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O love! where is thy sympathy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">If thus our breasts you sever?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But love is such a mystery,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I cannot find it out;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For when I think I'm best resolved,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I then am most in doubt.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then farewell love, and farewell woe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I will no longer pine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For I'll believe I have her heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As much as she hath mine.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir John Suckling.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ORSAMES' SONG.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why so pale and wan, fond lover?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Prithee, why so pale?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will, when looking well can't move her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Looking ill prevail?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Prithee, why so pale?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why so dull and mute, young sinner?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Prithee, why so mute?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will, when speaking well can't win her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Saying nothing do't?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Prithee, why so mute?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">This cannot take her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If of herself she will not love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Nothing can make her:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The devil take her!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir John Suckling.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Since first I saw your face I resolved<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To honour and renown you;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If now I be disdained<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I wish my heart had never known you.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What! I that loved, and you that liked,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Shall we begin to wrangle?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No, no, no, my heart is fast<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And cannot disentangle.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The sun whose beams most glorious are,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Rejecteth no beholder,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And your sweet beauty past compare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Made my poor eyes the bolder.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where beauty moves, and wit delights<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And signs of kindness bind me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There, oh! there, where'er I go<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I leave my heart behind me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If I admire or praise you too much,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That fault you may forgive me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or if my hands had strayed but a touch,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then justly might you leave me.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">I asked you leave, you bade me love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Is't now a time to chide me?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No, no, no, I'll love you still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What fortune e'er betide me.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Circa 1617.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>THE GIVEN HEART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I Wonder what those lovers mean, who say<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They've given their hearts away.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some good, kind lover, tell me how:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For mine is but a torment to me now.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If so it be one place both hearts contain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For what do they complain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What courtesy can Love do more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than to join hearts that parted were before?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Woe to her stubborn heart, if once mine come<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into the self-same room;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Twill tear and blow up all within<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a grenade shot into a magazine.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then shall Love keep the ashes and torn parts<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of both our broken hearts;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall out of both one new one make,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From hers th' alloy, from mine the metal take.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For of her heart he from the flames will find<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But little left behind:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mine only will remain entire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No dross was there to perish in the fire.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Abraham Cowley.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ICE AND FIRE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Naked Love did to thine eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chloris, once to warm him, fly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But its subtle flame, and light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scorch'd his wings, and spoiled his sight.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Forc'd from thence he went to rest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the soft couch of thy breast:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But there met a frost so great,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As his torch extinguish'd straight.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When poor Cupid (thus constrain'd<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His cold bed to leave) complain'd:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"'Las! what lodging's here for me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If all ice and fire she be."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Edmund Sherburne.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>AMARANTHA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amarantha, sweet and fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forbear to braid that shining hair;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As my curious hand or eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hovering round thee, let it fly:<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Let it fly as unconfined<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As its ravisher the wind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who has left his darling east<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To wanton o'er this spicy nest.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Every tress must be confess'd<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But neatly tangled at the best,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a clew of golden thread,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Most excellently ravelled.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Do not then wind up that light<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In ribands, and o'ercloud the night;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like the sun in his early ray,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But shake your head and scatter day.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Richard Lovelace.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When love, with unconfined wings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Hovers within my gates,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And my divine Althea brings<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To whisper at the grates;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I lie tangled in her hair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And fetter'd to her eye&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The birds that wanton in the air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Know no such liberty.<br /></span>
+</div>
+<hr style='width: 35%;' />
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Stone walls do not a prison make,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nor iron bars a cage;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Minds innocent and quiet take<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That for an hermitage.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If I have freedom in my love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And in my soul am free,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Angels alone, that soar above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Enjoy such liberty.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Richard Lovelace.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>A MOCK SONG.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Tis true I never was in love:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But now I mean to be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">For there's no art<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Can shield a heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">From love's supremacy.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Though in my nonage I have seen<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A world of taking faces,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I had not age or wit to ken<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Their several hidden graces.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Those virtues which, though thinly set,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">In others are admired,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In thee are altogether met,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Which make thee so desired.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">That though I never was in love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Nor never meant to be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Thyself and parts<br /></span>
+<span class="i3">Above my arts<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Have drawn my heart to thee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Alexander Brome.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SPEAKING AND KISSING.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The air which thy smooth voice doth break,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Into my soul like lightning flies;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My life retires while thou dost speak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And thy soft breath its room supplies.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Lost in this pleasing ecstasy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I join my trembling lips to thine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And back receive that life from thee<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Which I so gladly did resign.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Forbear, Platonic fools! t' inquire<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What numbers do the soul compose;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No harmony can life inspire<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But that which from these accents flows.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Stanley.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LADIES' CONQUERING EYES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ladies, though to your conquering eyes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love owes its chiefest victories,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And borrows those bright arms from you<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With which he does the world subdue;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet you yourselves are not above<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The empire nor the griefs of love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then rack not lovers with disdain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lest love on you revenge their pain:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You are not free because you're fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Boy did not his mother spare:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though beauty be a killing dart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is no armour for the heart.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Etherege.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>DORINDA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">United, cast too fierce a light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which blazes high, but quickly dies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love is a calmer, gentler joy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Smooth are his looks and soft his pace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her Cupid is a blackguard boy<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That runs his link full in your face.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Charles Sackville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CELIA AND SYLVIA.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I must confess art kind;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But in her cruelty, I vow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I more repose can find.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For, oh! thy fancy at all games does fly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fond of address, and willing to comply.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus he that loves must be undone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Each way on rocks we fall;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Either you will be kind to none,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Or worse, be kind to all.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vain are our hopes, and endless is our care;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We must be jealous, or we must despair.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Robert Gould.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TRUE LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of sighs, nor aches, to make it known,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to convince the cruellest maid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Lovers should use their love alone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Into their very looks 'twill steal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And he that most would hide his flame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Does in that case his pain reveal:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Silence itself can love proclaim.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir Charles Sedley.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>TOO LATE!</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Too late, alas! I must confess,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">You need not arts to move me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such charms by nature you possess,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">'Twere madness not to love ye.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then spare a heart you may surprise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And give my tongue the glory<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To boast, though my unfaithful eyes<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Betray a tender story.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MY MISTRESS' HEART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My dear mistress has a heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Soft as those kind looks she gave me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When with Love's resistless art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And her eyes, she did enslave me.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But her constancy's so weak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She's so wild and apt to wander;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That my jealous heart would break<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Should we live one day asunder.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Melting joys about her move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Killing pleasures, wounding blisses;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She can dress her eyes in love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And her lips can arm with kisses.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Angels listen when she speaks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">She's my delight, all mankind wonder;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But my jealous heart would break<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Should we live one day asunder.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>CONSTANCY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I cannot change, as others do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Though you unjustly scorn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since the poor swain that sighs for you,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For you alone was born.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No, Phillis, no, your heart to move<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A surer way I'll try;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to revenge my slighted love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Will still love on and die.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When, killed with grief, Amyntas lies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And you to mind shall call<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sighs that now unpitied rise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The tears that vainly fall;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That welcome hour that ends his smart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Will then begin your pain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For such a faithful tender heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Can never break in vain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>MAN AND WOMAN.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man is for woman made,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And woman made for man;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the spur is for the jade,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the scabbard for the blade,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As for liquor is the can,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So man's for woman made,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And woman made for man.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As the sceptre to be sway'd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As to night the serenade,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As for pudding is the pan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As to cool us is the fan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So man's for woman made,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And woman made for man.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Peter Antony Motteux.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ACCEPT MY HEART.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Accept, my love, as true a heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As ever lover gave:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis free, it vows, from any art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And proud to be your slave.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then take it kindly, as 'twas meant,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And let the giver live,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who, with it, would the world have sent<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Had it been his to give.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And, that Dorinda may not fear<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I e'er will prove untrue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My vow shall, ending with the year,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">With it begin anew.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Matthew Prior.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>AN ANGELIC WOMAN.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Not an angel dwells above<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Half so fair as her I love.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heaven knows how she'll receive me:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she smiles I'm blest indeed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If she frowns I'm quickly freed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heaven knows she ne'er can grieve me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">None can love her more than I,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet she ne'er shall make me die,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If my flame can never warm her:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lasting beauty I'll adore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I shall never love her more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cruelty will so deform her.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir John Vanbrugh.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>I SMILE AT LOVE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I smile at Love, and all its arts,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The charming Cynthia cried:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Take heed, for Love has piercing darts,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A wounded swain replied.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Once free and blest as you are now,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I trifled with his charms,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I pointed at his little bow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And sported with his arms,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till urged too far, Revenge! he cries,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">A fatal shaft he drew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It took its passage through your eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And to my heart it flew.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To tear it thence I tried in vain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To strive, I quickly found<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was only to increase the pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And to enlarge the wound.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ah! much too well, I fear, you know<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">What pain I'm to endure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since what your eyes alone can do<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Your heart alone can cure.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And that (grant Heaven, I may mistake!)<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I doubt is doom'd to bear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A burden for another's sake,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Who ill rewards its care.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Sir John Vanbrugh.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>ADIEU L'AMOUR.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Here end my chains, and thraldom cease,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If not in joy, I'll live at least in peace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since for the pleasures of an hour,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We must endure an age of pain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'll be this abject thing no more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love, give me back my heart again.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Despair tormented first my breast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now falsehood, a more cruel guest;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O! for the peace of human kind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make women longer true, or sooner kind:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With justice, or with mercy reign,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O Love! or give me back my heart again.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Granville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>SABINA WAKES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And now the sun begins to rise;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Less glorious is the morn that breaks<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">From his bright beams, than her fair eyes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With light united, day they give,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But different fates ere night fulfil;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How many by his warmth will live!<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">How many will her coldness kill!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Congreve.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FALSE! OR INCONSTANCY.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">False though she be to me and love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I'll ne'er pursue revenge;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For still the charmer I approve,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Though I deplore her change.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In hours of bliss we oft have met,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">They could not always last;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And though the present I regret,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">I'm grateful for the past.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>William Congreve.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVE AND HATE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why we love, and why we hate,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Is not granted us to know:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Random chance, or wilful fate,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Guides the shaft from Cupid's bow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If on me Zelinda frown,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Madness 'tis in me to grieve:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since her will is not her own,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Why should I uneasy live?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If I for Zelinda die,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Deaf to poor Mizella's cries,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ask not me the reason why:<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Seek the riddle in the skies.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Ambrose Philips.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>I LATELY VOWED.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That I no more would court<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The joys that seem when they are past<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As dull as they are short.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I oft to hate my mistress swear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But soon my weakness find;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I make my oaths when she's severe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But break them when she's kind.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Oldmixon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>FEW HAPPY MATCHES.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Say, mighty Love, and teach my song<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To whom thy sweetest joys belong,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And who the happy pairs<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose yielding hearts, and joining hands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Find blessings twisted with their bands<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To soften all their cares.<br /></span>
+</div>
+<hr style='width: 35%;' />
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Two kindest souls alone must meet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis friendship makes the bondage sweet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And feeds their mutual loves:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bright Venus on her rolling throne<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is drawn by gentlest birds alone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And Cupids yoke the doves.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Dr. Isaac Watts.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>DORINDA'S CONQUEST.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">The God of Love her charms to view;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To wound th' unwary maid he thought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But soon became her conquest too.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He dropp'd half-drawn his feeble bow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">He look'd, he raved, and sighing pined;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wish'd in vain he had been now,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">As painters falsely draw him, blind.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Disarm'd, he to his mother flies;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Help, Venus, help thy wretched son!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who now will pay us sacrifice?<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">For Love himself's, alas! undone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To Cupid now no lover's prayer<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Shall be address'd in suppliant sighs;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My darts are gone, but, oh! beware,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Fond mortals, of Dorinda's eyes!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>John Hughes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>LOVERS IN DISGUISE.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">How bless'd are lovers in disguise!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Like gods, they see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As I do thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unseen by human eyes.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Exposed to view,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I'm hid from view,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'm altered, yet the same:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The dark conceals me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Love reveals me:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love, which lights me by its flame.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Were you not false, you would me know;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For though your eyes<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Could not devise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your heart had told you so.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Your heart would beat<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With eager heat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And me by sympathy would find:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">True love might see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">One changed like me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">False love is only blind.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>George Farquhar.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span></p>
+<p class='heading'>WHEN THY BEAUTY APPEARS.</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When thy beauty appears<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In its graces and airs,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At a distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">So strangely you dazzle my eye!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But then, without art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your kind thought you impart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">When your love runs in blushes through every vein;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Then I know you're a woman again.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There's a passion and pride<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In our sex, she replied,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And thus, might I gratify both, would I do:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still an angel appear to each lover beside,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">But still be a woman to you.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='author'>Thomas Parnell.</p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p>
+<h2>INDEX OF FIRST LINES.</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+Accept, my love, as true a heart. <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ah! I remember well (and how can I. <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ah! my sweet sweeting! <a href="#Page_5">5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Amarantha, sweet and fair. <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Amid my bale I bathe in bliss. <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Amyntas, go! Thou art undone. <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.<br />
+<br />
+And wilt thou leave me thus? <a href="#Page_2">2</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Away with these self-loving lads. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou. <a href="#Page_118">118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry. <a href="#Page_91">91</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Come live with me, and be my love. <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cupid and my Campaspe played. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly. <a href="#Page_46">46</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes. <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Drink to me only with thine eyes. <a href="#Page_74">74</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dry those fair, those crystal eyes. <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Fain would I change that note. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.<br />
+<br />
+False though she be to me and love. <a href="#Page_129">129</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought. <a href="#Page_133">133</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Farewell! my joy. <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Faustina hath the fairest face. <a href="#Page_66">66</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Foolish love is only folly. <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Go, lovely Rose. <a href="#Page_98">98</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.<br />
+<br />
+He that loves a rosy cheek. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.<br />
+<br />
+He that loves and fears to try. <a href="#Page_30">30</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Help me to seek! For I lost it there. <a href="#Page_1">1</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>Here end my chains, and thraldom cease, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.<br />
+<br />
+How bless'd are lovers in disguise! <a href="#Page_134">134</a>.<br />
+<br />
+How long shall I pine for love? <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+I cannot change, as others do. <a href="#Page_122">122</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I dare not ask a kiss. <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair. <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I have a mistress, for perfections rare. <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste. <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I lov'd thee once, I'll love no more. <a href="#Page_69">69</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I pr'ythee send me back my heart. <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I smile at Love, and all its arts. <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.<br />
+<br />
+I wonder what those lovers mean, who say. <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.<br />
+<br />
+If all the world and Love were young. <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.<br />
+<br />
+If women could be fair, and yet not fond. <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.<br />
+<br />
+In a maiden-time profess'd. <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.<br />
+<br />
+In petticoat of green. <a href="#Page_78">78</a>.<br />
+<br />
+In the merry month of May. <a href="#Page_35">35</a>.<br />
+<br />
+It is not Beauty I demand. <a href="#Page_59">59</a>.<br />
+<br />
+It was a beauty that I saw. <a href="#Page_73">73</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Ladies, though to your conquering eyes. <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Like to Diana in her summer weed. <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Like to the clear in highest sphere. <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love guards the roses of thy lips. <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love is a sickness full of woes. <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love me little, love me long. <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love me not for comely grace. <a href="#Page_61">61</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love mistress is of many minds. <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid. <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Man is for woman made. <a href="#Page_123">123</a>.<br />
+<br />
+My dear mistress has a heart. <a href="#Page_121">121</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span>My girl, thou gazest much. <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+My Phyllis hath the morning sun. <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Naked Love did to thine eye. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Not an angel dwells above. <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Now fie on foolish love, it not befits. <a href="#Page_82">82</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Now thou hast loved me one whole day. <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed! <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.<br />
+<br />
+O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm. <a href="#Page_77">77</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Oh, what a plague is love! <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Once I loved a maiden fair. <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Over the mountains. <a href="#Page_62">62</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Phylida was a fair maid. <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Pretty twinkling starry eyes. <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread. <a href="#Page_28">28</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Rise, Lady Mistress! rise! <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Say, mighty Love, and teach my song. <a href="#Page_132">132</a>.<br />
+<br />
+See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes! <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green. <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee. <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Shall I like a hermit dwell. <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Shall I, wasting in despair. <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell! <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Since first I saw your face I resolved. <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Some asked me where the rubies grew. <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sweetest love, I do not go. <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Take, O, take those lips away. <a href="#Page_79">79</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tell me, dearest, what is love? <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span>The air which thy smooth voice doth break. <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest. <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.<br />
+<br />
+There is a garden in her face. <a href="#Page_38">38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Thou pretty bird, how do I see. <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.<br />
+<br />
+'Tis true I never was in love. <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Too late, alas! I must confess. <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tune on my pipe the praises of my love. <a href="#Page_83">83</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Two lines shall teach you how. <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Two lines shall tell the grief. <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Weep eyes, break heart! <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Were I as base as is the lowly plain. <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.<br />
+<br />
+What shepherd can express. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+When love, with unconfined wings. <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+When thy beauty appears. <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose! <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.<br />
+<br />
+While that the sun with his beams hot. <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Who is Sylvia? What is she. <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Why so pale and wan, fond lover? <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Why we love, and why we hate. <a href="#Page_130">130</a>.<br />
+<br />
+With fragrant flowers we strew the way. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wonder not, though I am blind. <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Ye blushing Virgins happy are. <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span></p>
+<h2>INDEX OF AUTHORS.</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+Alexander, W., Earl of Stirling. <a href="#Page_77">77</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Anonymous. <a href="#Page_5">5</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>,
+<a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>,
+<a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>,
+<a href="#Page_66">66</a>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>,
+<a href="#Page_105">105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Aytoun, Sir Robert. <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Beaumont, Francis. <a href="#Page_80">80</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Beaumont and Fletcher. <a href="#Page_79">79</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Breton, Richard. <a href="#Page_35">35</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Brome, Alexander. <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Brooke, Lord. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Campion, Thomas. <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Carew, Thomas. <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Congreve, William. <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Constable, Henry. <a href="#Page_46">46</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cowley, Abraham, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Daniel, John. <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Daniel, Samuel. <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Davenant, Sir William. <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Donne, Dr. John. <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dowland, John. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Drayton, Michael. <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Drummond, William. <a href="#Page_78">78</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dyer, Sir Edward. <a href="#Page_16">16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Etherege, Sir George. <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Farquhar, George. <a href="#Page_134">134</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Field, Nathaniel. <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Fletcher, <i>see</i> Beaumont and F.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Gascoigne, George. <a href="#Page_14">14</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Googe, Barnaby. <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gould, Robert. <a href="#Page_118">118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Granville, George. <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Greene, Robert. <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Habington, William. <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Harrington, Sir John. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Herrick, Robert. <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hughes, John. <a href="#Page_133">133</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hume, Capt. Tobias. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Jonson, Ben. <a href="#Page_73">73</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+King, Bp. Henry. <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Lodge, Thomas. <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lovelace, Richard. <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lyly, John. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Marlowe, Christopher. <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Middleton, Thomas. <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Motteux, Peter Anthony. <a href="#Page_123">123</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Oldmixon, John. <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Oxford, Earl of. <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Parnell, Thomas. <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Peele, George. <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Philips, Ambrose. <a href="#Page_130">130</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Prior, Matthew. <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Raleigh, Sir Walter. <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Randolph, Thomas, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Rochester, Earl of. <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span>
+Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset. <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sedley, Sir Charles, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Shakespeare, William. <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sherburne, Sir Edmund. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sidney, Sir Philip. <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Southwell, Robert. <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Stanley, Thomas. <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Stirling, Earl of. <a href="#Page_77">77</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Suckling, Sir John. <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Surrey, Earl of. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sylvester, J. <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Turberville, George. <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Vanbrugh, Sir John. <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Vaughan, Henry. <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Vere, E., Earl of Oxford, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Waller, Edmund. <a href="#Page_98">98</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Watson, Thomas. <a href="#Page_34">34</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Watts, Dr. Isaac. <a href="#Page_132">132</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Weelkes, Thomas. <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wilmot, John. <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wither, George. <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wootton, John. <a href="#Page_83">83</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wyatt, Sir Thomas. <a href="#Page_1">1</a>.
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 128px;">
+<img src="images/fig004.jpg" width="128" height="150" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.<br />
+Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+***** This file should be named 26398-h.htm or 26398-h.zip *****
+This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
+ https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/9/26398/
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
+will be renamed.
+
+Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
+one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
+(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
+permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
+set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
+copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
+protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
+Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
+charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
+do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
+rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
+such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
+research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
+practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
+subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
+redistribution.
+
+
+
+*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
+
+THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
+PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
+
+To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
+distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
+(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at
+https://gutenberg.org/license).
+
+
+Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic works
+
+1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to
+and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
+(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all
+the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
+all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession.
+If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
+terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
+entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.
+
+1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be
+used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who
+agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few
+things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
+even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See
+paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
+and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works. See paragraph 1.E below.
+
+1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
+or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the
+collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an
+individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
+located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
+copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
+works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
+are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project
+Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by
+freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of
+this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with
+the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
+keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
+
+1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern
+what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in
+a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check
+the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement
+before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or
+creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
+Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning
+the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
+States.
+
+1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg:
+
+1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate
+access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently
+whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the
+phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed,
+copied or distributed:
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
+from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
+posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
+and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
+or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
+with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
+work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1
+through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
+Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or
+1.E.9.
+
+1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
+with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
+must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional
+terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked
+to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
+permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
+
+1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
+work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
+
+1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
+electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
+prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with
+active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm License.
+
+1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
+compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
+word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or
+distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
+"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version
+posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org),
+you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
+copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
+request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
+form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1.
+
+1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
+performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
+unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.
+
+1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing
+access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided
+that
+
+- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from
+ the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method
+ you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is
+ owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
+ has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
+ Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments
+ must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
+ prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
+ returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
+ sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
+ address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
+ the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation."
+
+- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies
+ you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he
+ does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+ License. You must require such a user to return or
+ destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
+ and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
+ Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any
+ money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
+ electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
+ of receipt of the work.
+
+- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
+ distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
+forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
+both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
+Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the
+Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below.
+
+1.F.
+
+1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
+effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
+public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
+collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
+"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
+corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
+property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
+computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
+your equipment.
+
+1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
+of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
+liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
+fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
+LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
+PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
+TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
+LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
+INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
+DAMAGE.
+
+1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
+defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
+receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
+written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you
+received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with
+your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with
+the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
+refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
+providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
+receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy
+is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further
+opportunities to fix the problem.
+
+1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
+in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
+WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
+
+1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
+warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
+If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
+law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
+interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
+the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
+provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
+
+1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the
+trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone
+providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance
+with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production,
+promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works,
+harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
+that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do
+or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm
+work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any
+Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause.
+
+
+Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
+electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
+including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists
+because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
+people in all walks of life.
+
+Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
+assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
+goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
+remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
+and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
+To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
+and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
+and the Foundation web page at https://www.pglaf.org.
+
+
+Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
+Foundation
+
+The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
+501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
+state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
+Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification
+number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at
+https://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
+permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws.
+
+The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S.
+Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered
+throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at
+809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
+business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact
+information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official
+page at https://pglaf.org
+
+For additional contact information:
+ Dr. Gregory B. Newby
+ Chief Executive and Director
+ gbnewby@pglaf.org
+
+
+Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
+spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
+increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
+freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest
+array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations
+($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt
+status with the IRS.
+
+The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
+charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
+States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
+considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
+with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations
+where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To
+SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
+particular state visit https://pglaf.org
+
+While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
+have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
+against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
+approach us with offers to donate.
+
+International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
+any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
+outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
+
+Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation
+methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other
+ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
+donations. To donate, please visit: https://pglaf.org/donate
+
+
+Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works.
+
+Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
+concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
+with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
+Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
+
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
+editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S.
+unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily
+keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.
+
+
+Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility:
+
+ https://www.gutenberg.org
+
+This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm,
+including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary
+Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to
+subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.
+
+
+</pre>
+
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig001.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig001.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34b7332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig001.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig001th.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig001th.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4672762
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig001th.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig002.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig002.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92937a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig002.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig002th.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig002th.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..025d56d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig002th.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig003.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig003.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d7f504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig003.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-h/images/fig004.jpg b/26398-h/images/fig004.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..589a107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-h/images/fig004.jpg
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/c0001-image1.png b/26398-page-images/c0001-image1.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6f1ed0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/c0001-image1.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0001-image1.png b/26398-page-images/f0001-image1.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd46443
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0001-image1.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0001.png b/26398-page-images/f0001.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..411ad89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0001.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0005-image1.png b/26398-page-images/f0005-image1.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d404266
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0005-image1.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0007.png b/26398-page-images/f0007.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a75dfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0007.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0008.png b/26398-page-images/f0008.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f034bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0008.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0009.png b/26398-page-images/f0009.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6f762b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0009.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0010.png b/26398-page-images/f0010.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96efc23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0010.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0011.png b/26398-page-images/f0011.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc3fa69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0011.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0012.png b/26398-page-images/f0012.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80b1a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0012.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0013.png b/26398-page-images/f0013.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d00ba97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0013.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0014.png b/26398-page-images/f0014.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72d8f02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0014.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/f0015.png b/26398-page-images/f0015.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce76cb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/f0015.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0001.png b/26398-page-images/p0001.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6949f8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0001.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0002.png b/26398-page-images/p0002.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f006a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0002.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0003.png b/26398-page-images/p0003.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b702b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0003.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0004.png b/26398-page-images/p0004.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1a4d80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0004.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0005.png b/26398-page-images/p0005.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4131fbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0005.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0006.png b/26398-page-images/p0006.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f66603b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0006.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0007.png b/26398-page-images/p0007.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c9017c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0007.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0008.png b/26398-page-images/p0008.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9eddde1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0008.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0009.png b/26398-page-images/p0009.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11fd735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0009.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0010.png b/26398-page-images/p0010.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5879ea1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0010.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0011.png b/26398-page-images/p0011.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b11c078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0011.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0012.png b/26398-page-images/p0012.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de92858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0012.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0013.png b/26398-page-images/p0013.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b488c15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0013.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0014.png b/26398-page-images/p0014.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..099fd2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0014.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0015.png b/26398-page-images/p0015.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..368d0b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0015.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0016.png b/26398-page-images/p0016.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bb9aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0016.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0017.png b/26398-page-images/p0017.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b006875
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0017.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0018.png b/26398-page-images/p0018.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de46615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0018.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0019.png b/26398-page-images/p0019.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b520f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0019.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0020.png b/26398-page-images/p0020.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bdfa71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0020.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0021.png b/26398-page-images/p0021.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ca7cfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0021.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0022.png b/26398-page-images/p0022.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1b09a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0022.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0023.png b/26398-page-images/p0023.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..daaf22f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0023.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0024.png b/26398-page-images/p0024.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..defc0b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0024.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0025.png b/26398-page-images/p0025.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b3055c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0025.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0026.png b/26398-page-images/p0026.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80a901b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0026.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0027.png b/26398-page-images/p0027.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f48920e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0027.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0028.png b/26398-page-images/p0028.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cd7387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0028.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0029.png b/26398-page-images/p0029.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3b3a60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0029.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0030.png b/26398-page-images/p0030.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b15e61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0030.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0031.png b/26398-page-images/p0031.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf3be23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0031.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0032.png b/26398-page-images/p0032.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b6fc84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0032.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0033.png b/26398-page-images/p0033.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd7bed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0033.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0034.png b/26398-page-images/p0034.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e3cb23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0034.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0035.png b/26398-page-images/p0035.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32c76bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0035.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0036.png b/26398-page-images/p0036.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fbcec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0036.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0037.png b/26398-page-images/p0037.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c6ebf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0037.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0038.png b/26398-page-images/p0038.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b134692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0038.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0039.png b/26398-page-images/p0039.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2cf6dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0039.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0040.png b/26398-page-images/p0040.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9573634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0040.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0041.png b/26398-page-images/p0041.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d08549
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0041.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0042.png b/26398-page-images/p0042.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4166193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0042.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0043.png b/26398-page-images/p0043.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..907eaca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0043.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0044.png b/26398-page-images/p0044.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9898a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0044.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0045.png b/26398-page-images/p0045.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..73a2e71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0045.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0046.png b/26398-page-images/p0046.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c464bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0046.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0047.png b/26398-page-images/p0047.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbcfa85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0047.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0048.png b/26398-page-images/p0048.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a07810a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0048.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0049.png b/26398-page-images/p0049.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e63a34b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0049.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0050.png b/26398-page-images/p0050.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a8bb27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0050.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0051.png b/26398-page-images/p0051.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f9b265
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0051.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0052.png b/26398-page-images/p0052.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfd2ad3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0052.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0053.png b/26398-page-images/p0053.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f78e7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0053.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0054.png b/26398-page-images/p0054.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a188b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0054.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0055.png b/26398-page-images/p0055.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adddc83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0055.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0056.png b/26398-page-images/p0056.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc565ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0056.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0057.png b/26398-page-images/p0057.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99b2800
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0057.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0058.png b/26398-page-images/p0058.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c840f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0058.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0059.png b/26398-page-images/p0059.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..708bb98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0059.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0060.png b/26398-page-images/p0060.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39fbb2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0060.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0061.png b/26398-page-images/p0061.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77228c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0061.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0062.png b/26398-page-images/p0062.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..740a304
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0062.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0063.png b/26398-page-images/p0063.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e1ea59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0063.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0064.png b/26398-page-images/p0064.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..01a101c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0064.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0065.png b/26398-page-images/p0065.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b42d48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0065.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0066.png b/26398-page-images/p0066.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41db711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0066.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0067.png b/26398-page-images/p0067.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78925d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0067.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0068.png b/26398-page-images/p0068.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..188c35f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0068.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0069.png b/26398-page-images/p0069.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e34aa2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0069.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0070.png b/26398-page-images/p0070.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..039f043
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0070.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0071.png b/26398-page-images/p0071.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5dbd8e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0071.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0072.png b/26398-page-images/p0072.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aafbedd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0072.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0073.png b/26398-page-images/p0073.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d2cefb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0073.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0074.png b/26398-page-images/p0074.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d12d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0074.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0075.png b/26398-page-images/p0075.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c556e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0075.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0076.png b/26398-page-images/p0076.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca8cd85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0076.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0077.png b/26398-page-images/p0077.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93c4c3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0077.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0078.png b/26398-page-images/p0078.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..236c4ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0078.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0079.png b/26398-page-images/p0079.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0561a3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0079.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0080.png b/26398-page-images/p0080.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92c5be5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0080.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0081.png b/26398-page-images/p0081.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5fba9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0081.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0082.png b/26398-page-images/p0082.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e94bcf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0082.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0083.png b/26398-page-images/p0083.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f95049c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0083.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0084.png b/26398-page-images/p0084.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6a7f1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0084.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0085.png b/26398-page-images/p0085.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f17c28c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0085.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0086.png b/26398-page-images/p0086.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f329e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0086.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0087.png b/26398-page-images/p0087.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9cec22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0087.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0088.png b/26398-page-images/p0088.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9380a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0088.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0089.png b/26398-page-images/p0089.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f33de01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0089.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0090.png b/26398-page-images/p0090.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfd08e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0090.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0091.png b/26398-page-images/p0091.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf35786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0091.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0092.png b/26398-page-images/p0092.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8864418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0092.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0093.png b/26398-page-images/p0093.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5af900d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0093.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0094.png b/26398-page-images/p0094.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f50c44b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0094.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0095.png b/26398-page-images/p0095.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa24b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0095.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0096.png b/26398-page-images/p0096.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94d9c64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0096.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0097.png b/26398-page-images/p0097.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0062a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0097.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0098.png b/26398-page-images/p0098.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5a81fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0098.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0099.png b/26398-page-images/p0099.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee3ba99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0099.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0100.png b/26398-page-images/p0100.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc2dec2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0100.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0101.png b/26398-page-images/p0101.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2226cf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0101.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0102.png b/26398-page-images/p0102.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef7f08e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0102.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0103.png b/26398-page-images/p0103.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b799fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0103.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0104.png b/26398-page-images/p0104.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3a2b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0104.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0105.png b/26398-page-images/p0105.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..805f400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0105.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0106.png b/26398-page-images/p0106.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db895d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0106.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0107.png b/26398-page-images/p0107.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99e3948
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0107.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0108.png b/26398-page-images/p0108.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4133449
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0108.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0109.png b/26398-page-images/p0109.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5613982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0109.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0110.png b/26398-page-images/p0110.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0eeb7ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0110.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0111.png b/26398-page-images/p0111.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17e6b18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0111.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0112.png b/26398-page-images/p0112.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40df45b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0112.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0113.png b/26398-page-images/p0113.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..053ff9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0113.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0114.png b/26398-page-images/p0114.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48fa29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0114.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0115.png b/26398-page-images/p0115.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fddcd11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0115.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0116.png b/26398-page-images/p0116.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8937c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0116.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0117.png b/26398-page-images/p0117.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd01317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0117.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0118.png b/26398-page-images/p0118.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..507d292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0118.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0119.png b/26398-page-images/p0119.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f57c734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0119.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0120.png b/26398-page-images/p0120.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6380e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0120.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0121.png b/26398-page-images/p0121.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d2f847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0121.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0122.png b/26398-page-images/p0122.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb218f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0122.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0123.png b/26398-page-images/p0123.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..204e3ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0123.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0124.png b/26398-page-images/p0124.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40ec8e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0124.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0125.png b/26398-page-images/p0125.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80c4d71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0125.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0126.png b/26398-page-images/p0126.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1432678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0126.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0127.png b/26398-page-images/p0127.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8b1dfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0127.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0128.png b/26398-page-images/p0128.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11a9e2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0128.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0129.png b/26398-page-images/p0129.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b75f0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0129.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0130.png b/26398-page-images/p0130.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b461812
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0130.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0131.png b/26398-page-images/p0131.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aee9de0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0131.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0132.png b/26398-page-images/p0132.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d9a2af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0132.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0133.png b/26398-page-images/p0133.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9734fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0133.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0134.png b/26398-page-images/p0134.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41d555f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0134.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0135.png b/26398-page-images/p0135.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7292c5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0135.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0136.png b/26398-page-images/p0136.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..024d96e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0136.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0137.png b/26398-page-images/p0137.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..615365a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0137.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0138.png b/26398-page-images/p0138.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a41a1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0138.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0139.png b/26398-page-images/p0139.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e26fd49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0139.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0140.png b/26398-page-images/p0140.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5a99b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0140.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0141.png b/26398-page-images/p0141.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c2d4a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0141.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/p0142.png b/26398-page-images/p0142.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..508d425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/p0142.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398-page-images/q0001.png b/26398-page-images/q0001.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..421ca49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398-page-images/q0001.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/26398.txt b/26398.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c4edb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4502 @@
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
+
+Author: Various
+
+Editor: J. Potter Briscoe
+
+Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26398]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +--------------------------------------------------------+
+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES |
+ | |
+ | Small discrepancies in punctuation between the Table |
+ | of Contents and poem titles have been retained. |
+ | |
+ | "Cherry Ripe" and "Julia" are on pages 91 and 90 |
+ | respectively, rather than on pages 90 and 91 as listed |
+ | in the Table of Contents. |
+ | |
+ | John Dowland's poem is titled "True till death" in the |
+ | Table of Contents, but is titled "Love's constancy" |
+ | on page 95. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------------+
+
+_[Illustration]_
+
+[Illustration: TUDOR
+AND
+STUART
+LOVE
+SONGS
+
+COLLECTED BY
+J. POTTER BRISCOE]
+
+
+
+
+TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS
+
+SELECTED AND EDITED BY
+
+J. POTTER BRISCOE, F.R.S.L.
+Editor of "The Bibelots"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+E. P. DUTTON AND CO.
+31 W. 23^RD STREET
+NEW YORK
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the
+sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of
+means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of
+making themselves acquainted with the politics, social life, literature,
+art, science, and commerce of the various nations of the same,
+especially of France, Spain, and Italy. These young Englishmen on their
+return introduced into the society in which they mixed not only the
+politenesses of these countries, but the wit of Italy, and the character
+of the poetry which was then in vogue in Southern Europe. Among these
+travellers during the reign of Henry the Eighth were Sir Thomas Wyatt
+and the Earl of Surrey. These courtiers possessed the poetical faculty,
+and therefore paid special attention to literary form. As a result they
+introduced the Sonnet of the Petrarchan type into England. The amorous
+verse of the inhabitants of these sunny climes took hold of the young
+Englishmen. Many men of rank and education, who did not regard
+themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it
+being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. During
+the reign of "Good Queen Bess" England was full of song. Of the writers
+of love verses William Watson occupied a very high, probably the
+highest, position during the time of Elizabeth. A glance at the Table of
+Contents of this volume will show that some of the best poets who were
+born between the years 1503 and 1679 have handed down to us poetical
+contributions of this character.
+
+Of the Elizabethan amatory verses only a small portion has been
+transmitted to us. That which possessed least literary merit did not
+long survive, and, no doubt, some of considerable merit has been lost
+too. The best has been preserved. Selections from these, arranged in
+chronological order, appear in this anthology. Richard Tottel printed
+his "Miscellany" in 1557. It is to this work, and to Richard Edwards'
+"Paradise of Dainty Devices," issued nineteen years later, that much of
+the best poetical literature of the sixteenth century has come down to
+us. The first-named passed through eight editions during thirty years:
+the last issue being dated 1587.
+
+From the amatory verses produced by seventy-one writers during the reign
+of Henry the Eighth and down to those of the early Georges one hundred
+and thirteen appear in this love anthology. The limitation of space
+prevents further biographical particulars being given than the years of
+birth and death, which will be found in the Table of Contents. As
+writers do not always agree in this respect, "The Dictionary of National
+Biography" has been taken as the authority.
+
+Whatever labour has been bestowed on the preparation of this anthology
+has not been in bulking it out to its present dimensions, but rather in
+keeping it within the prescribed limits; and, at the same time,
+furnishing these best examples of the love verses of the numerous
+authors who have been requisitioned for the purpose of this volume of
+"Tudor and Stuart Love Songs."
+
+J. P. B.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+ Page
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).
+ The lost heart 1
+ The lover's appeal 2
+
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547).
+ A sonnet--"Love that liveth," etc. 3
+ A vow to love faithfully 4
+
+
+Anon., _circa_ 1530.
+ My sweet sweeting 5
+
+
+George Turberville (1540?-1610?).
+ The lover to his lady 6
+ Master George: his sonnet 7
+ Turberville's answer and distich 8
+
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
+ The shepherd's commendation of his nymph 9
+ A renunciation 11
+
+
+Barnaby Googe (?) (1535?-1594).
+ The complaint of Harpalus 12
+
+
+George Gascoigne (1525-1577).
+ A strange passion of a lover 14
+
+
+Sir Edward Dyer ( -1607).
+ To Phyllis, the fair shepherdess 16
+
+
+George Peele (1558?-1596-1597?).
+ The enamoured shepherd 17
+
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618).
+ His love admits no rival 18
+ The shepherd's description of love 20
+ The shepherdess' reply 22
+
+
+Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628).
+ Love for love 24
+
+
+John Lyly (1554?-1606).
+ Cupid and Campaspe: Apelles' song 26
+
+
+Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
+ A ditty--"My true love," etc. 27
+ Love is dead 28
+ He that loves 30
+
+
+Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625).
+ Love's wantonness 31
+ Rosaline 32
+
+
+Thomas Watson (1557?-1592?).
+ The May Queen 34
+
+
+Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626?).
+ Phillida and Corydon 35
+
+
+Thomas Campion (_circa_ 1619).
+ Shall I come, sweet love, to thee? 37
+ Cherry-ripe 38
+
+
+Robert Greene (1560?-1592).
+ Fair Samela 39
+ Kinds of love 41
+ Love and beauty 42
+
+
+Robert Southwell (1561?-1595).
+ Love's servile lot 43
+
+
+Sir John Harrington (1561-1612).
+ The heart of stone 45
+
+
+Henry Constable (1561-1613).
+ A shepherd's song to his love 46
+
+
+Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
+ Love now, for roses fade 47
+ Early love 48
+ Love is a sickness 49
+
+
+Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).
+ The passionate shepherd to his love 50
+
+
+Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).
+ Love's omnipresence 52
+
+
+Michael Drayton (1563-1631).
+ A parting, or Love's last chance 53
+
+
+William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
+ Who is Silvia? 54
+ Sigh no more, ladies 55
+ A morning song for Imogen 56
+
+
+Anon. (_circa_ 1564).
+ The unfaithful shepherdess 57
+
+
+Anon.
+ True loveliness 59
+ A woman's reason 61
+ Love will find out the way 62
+ Phillida flouts me 64
+ In praise of two 66
+
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638).
+ To his forsaken mistress 67
+ On women's inconstancy 69
+
+
+Thomas Middleton (1570?-1627).
+ The three states of women 71
+ My love and I must part 72
+
+
+Ben Jonson (1573?-1637).
+ Perfect beauty 73
+ To Celia 74
+
+
+Dr. John Donne (1573-1631).
+ A woman's constancy 75
+ Sweetest love 76
+
+
+William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640).
+ To Aurora 77
+
+
+William Drummond (1585-1649).
+ Phillis 78
+
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher (1584-1616; 1579-1625).
+ Take those lips away 79
+
+
+Francis Beaumont (1584-1616).
+ Tell me what is love 80
+ Pining for love 81
+ Fie on love 82
+
+
+John Wootton (_circa_ 1600).
+ Damoetas' praise of his Daphnis 83
+
+
+George Wither (1588-1667).
+ Shall I, wasting in despair 85
+
+
+Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?).
+ To one who, when I praised my mistress'
+ beauty, said I was blind 87
+ He that loves a rosy cheek 88
+
+
+Nathaniel Field (1587- ).
+ Matin song 89
+
+
+Robert Herrick (1591-1674).
+ Cherry ripe 90
+ Julia 91
+ To the virgins 92
+ To Electra 93
+
+
+Bp. Henry King (1592-1669).
+ Dry those eyes 94
+
+
+John Dowland (ed.) (1563?-1626?).
+ True till death 95
+
+
+Thomas Weelkes (ed.) (1597- ?).
+ Farewell, my joy 96
+
+
+Sir William Davenant (1605-1606-1668).
+ The lark now leaves 97
+
+
+Edmund Waller (1606-1687).
+ Go, lovely rose! 98
+
+
+Thomas Randolph (1605-1635).
+ His mistress 99
+
+
+Henry Vaughan (1622-1695).
+ Chloris 100
+
+
+Anon. (_circa_ 1610).
+ Love me little, love me long 101
+
+
+Capt. Tobias Hume (musical composer).
+ Fain would I change that note 102
+
+
+William Habington.
+ To roses in Castara's breast 103
+
+
+John Danyel (1604?-1625?).
+ Thou pretty bird 104
+
+
+Anon. (_temp._ James I.).
+ Once I lov'd a maiden fair 105
+
+
+Sir John Suckling (1609-1642).
+ I pr'ythee send me back my heart 106
+ Orsame's song--"Why so pale," etc. 107
+
+
+Thomas Ford, composer (1607?-1648).
+ Since first I saw your face 108
+
+
+Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).
+ The given heart 110
+
+
+Sir Edward Sherburne (1618-1702).
+ Ice and fire 111
+
+
+Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).
+ Amarantha 112
+ To Althea, from prison 113
+
+
+Alexander Brome (1620-1666).
+ A mock song 114
+
+
+Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).
+ Speaking and kissing 115
+
+
+Sir George Etherege (1635?-1691).
+ Ladies' conquering eyes 116
+
+
+Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706).
+ Dorinda 117
+
+
+Robert Gould ( -1709?).
+ Celia and Sylvia 118
+
+
+Sir Charles Sedley (1639?-1701).
+ True love 119
+
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).
+ Too late! 120
+ My mistress' heart 121
+ Constancy 122
+
+
+Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718).
+ Man and woman 123
+
+
+Matthew Prior (1664-1721).
+ Accept my heart 124
+
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).
+ An angelic woman 125
+ I smile at love 126
+
+
+George Granville (1667-1735).
+ Adieu l'amour 127
+
+
+William Congreve (1670-1729).
+ Sabina wakes 128
+ Inconstancy 129
+
+
+Ambrose Philips (1675?-1709).
+ Love and hate 130
+
+
+John Oldmixon (1673-1742).
+ I lately vowed 131
+
+
+Dr. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
+ Few happy matches 132
+
+
+John Hughes (1677-1720).
+ Dorinda's conquest 133
+
+
+George Farquhar (1678-1707).
+ Lovers in disguise 134
+
+
+Thomas Parnell (1679-1718).
+ When thy beauty appears 135
+
+
+
+
+LOVE VERSES
+ OF THE TUDOR &
+ STUART PERIODS.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOST HEART.
+
+
+ Help me to seek! For I lost it there;
+ And, if that ye have found it, ye that be here,
+ And seek to convey it secretly,
+ Handle it soft and treat it tenderly,
+ Or else it will 'plain, and then appair.
+ But pray restore it mannerly,
+ Since that I do ask it thus honestly;
+ For to lose it, it sitteth me near;
+ Help me to seek!
+
+ Alas, and is there no remedy?
+ But have I thus lost it wilfully?
+ I-wis, it was a thing all too dear
+ To be bestowed, and wist not where!
+ It was mine heart! I pray you heartily
+ Help me to seek!
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOVER'S APPEAL.
+
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay! for shame,
+ To save thee from the blame
+ Of all my grief and grame.
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ That hath loved thee so long
+ In wealth and woe among:
+ And is thy heart so strong
+ As for to leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ That hath given thee my heart
+ Never for to depart
+ Neither for pain nor smart:
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+ And wilt thou leave me thus,
+ And have no more pity
+ Of him that loveth thee?
+ Alas! thy cruelty!
+ And wilt thou leave me thus?
+ Say nay! say nay!
+
+Sir Thomas Wyatt.
+
+
+
+
+A SONNET.
+
+
+ Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought,
+ That built his seat within my captive breast,
+ Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought,
+ Oft in my face he doth his banner rest:
+ She that me taught to love and suffer pain,
+ My doubtful hope and eke my hot desire
+ With shamefaced cloak to shadow and restrain,
+ Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire:
+ And coward Love then to the heart apace
+ Taketh his flight, whereas he lurks and plains
+ His purpose lost, and dare not show his face.
+ For my lord's guilt, thus faultless, bide I pains:
+ Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove;
+ Sweet is his death that takes his end by love!
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
+
+
+
+
+A VOW TO LOVE FAITHFULLY HOWSOEVER HE BE REWARDED.
+
+
+ Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green,
+ Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice,
+ In temperate heat where he is felt and seen,
+ In presence pressed of people mad or wise,
+ Set me in high, or yet in low degree,
+ In longest night, or in the shortest day,
+ In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be,
+ In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray,
+ Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell,
+ In hill or dale, or in the foaming flood,
+ Thrall, or at large, alive whereso I dwell,
+ Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good:
+ Hers will I be, and only with this thought
+ Content myself, although my chance be nought.
+
+Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
+
+
+
+
+MY SWEET SWEETING.
+
+
+ Ah, my sweet sweeting!
+ My little pretty sweeting,
+ My sweeting will I love wherever I go:
+ She is so proper and pure,
+ Full steadfast, stable, and demure,
+ There is none such, you may be sure,
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+ In all this world, as thinketh me,
+ Is none so pleasant to my eye,
+ That I am glad so oft to see
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+ When I behold my sweeting sweet,
+ Her face, her hands, her mignon feet,
+ They seem to me there is none so sweet
+ As my sweet sweeting.
+
+Anon., circa 1530.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOVER TO HIS LADY.
+
+
+ My girl, thou gazest much
+ Upon the golden skies:
+ Would _I_ were Heaven! I would behold
+ Thee then with all mine eyes!
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+MASTER GEORGE: HIS SONNET OF THE PAINS OF LOVE.
+
+
+ Two lines shall tell the grief
+ That I by love sustain:
+ I burn, I flame, I faint, I freeze,
+ Of Hell I feel the pain.
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+TURBERVILLE'S ANSWER AND DISTICH TO THE SAME.
+
+
+ Two lines shall teach you how
+ To purchase love anew:
+ Let reason rule, where Love did reign,
+ And idle thoughts eschew.
+
+George Turberville.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S COMMENDATION OF HIS NYMPH.
+
+
+ What shepherd can express
+ The favour of her face
+ To whom, in this distress,
+ I do appeal for grace?
+ A thousand Cupids fly
+ About her gentle eye;
+
+ From which each throws a dart,
+ That kindleth soft sweet fire
+ Within my sighing heart,
+ Possessed by desire:
+ No sweeter life I try
+ Than in her love to die!
+
+ The lily in the field,
+ That glories in his white,
+ For pureness now must yield
+ And render up his right;
+ Heaven pictured in her face
+ Doth promise joy and grace.
+
+ Fair Cynthia's silver light,
+ That beats on running streams,
+ Compares not with her white,
+ Whose hairs are all sunbeams:
+ So bright my Nymph doth shine
+ As day unto my eyne!
+
+ With this, there is a red,
+ Exceeds the damask-rose,
+ Which in her cheeks is spread,
+ Where every favour grows;
+ In sky there is no star,
+ But she surmounts it far.
+
+ When Phoebus from the bed
+ Of Thetis doth arise,
+ The morning, blushing red,
+ In fair carnation-wise,
+ He shows in my Nymph's face,
+ As Queen of every grace.
+
+ This pleasant lily-white,
+ This taint of roseate red,
+ This Cynthia's silver light,
+ This sweet fair Dea spread,
+ These sunbeams in mine eye,
+ These beauties, make me die!
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.
+
+
+
+
+A RENUNCIATION.
+
+
+ If women could be fair, and yet not fond,
+ Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
+ I would not marvel that they make men bond
+ By service long to purchase their good will;
+ But when I see how frail those creatures are,
+ I muse that men forget themselves so far.
+
+ To mark the choice they make, and how they change,
+ How oft from Phoebus they do flee to Pan;
+ Unsettled still, like haggards wild they range,
+ These gentle birds that fly from man to man;
+ Who would not scorn and shake them from the fist,
+ And let them fly, fair fools, which way they list?
+
+ Yet for disport we fawn and flatter both,
+ To pass the time when nothing else can please,
+ And train them to our lure with subtle oath,
+ Till, weary of their wiles, ourselves we ease;
+ And then we say when we their fancy try,
+ To play with fools, O what a fool was I!
+
+Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford.
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLAINT OF HARPALUS.
+
+
+ Phylida was a fair maid
+ And fresh as any flower,
+ Whom Harpalus the herdman prayed
+ To be his paramour.
+ Harpalus and eke Corin
+ Were herdmen, both yfere;
+ And Phylida could twist and spin,
+ And thereto sing full clear.
+ But Phylida was all too coy
+ For Harpalus to win;
+ For Corin was her only joy,
+ Who forced her not a pin.
+ How often would she flowers twine,
+ How often garlands make,
+ Of cowslips and of columbine,
+ And all for Corin's sake!
+ But Corin, he had hawks to lure,
+ And forced more the field;
+ Of lovers' law he took no cure,
+ For once he was beguiled.
+ Harpalus prevailed nought;
+ His labour all was lost;
+ For he was farthest from her thoughts,
+ And yet he loved her most.
+ Therefore waxed he both pale and lean,
+ And dry as clot of clay;
+ His flesh it was consumed clean,
+ His colour gone away....
+ His beasts he kept upon the hill,
+ And he sate in the dale;
+ And thus, with sighs and sorrows shrill,
+ He gan to tell his tale.
+ "O Harpalus,"--thus would he say--
+ "Unhappiest under sun,
+ The cause of thine unhappy day
+ By love was first begun!...
+ O Cupid, grant this my request,
+ And do not stop thine ears,
+ That she may feel within her breast
+ The pains of my despairs!
+ Of Corin that is careless,
+ That she may crave her fee,
+ As I have done in great distress,
+ That loved her faithfully!" ...
+
+Barnaby Googe (?).
+
+
+
+
+A STRANGE PASSION OF A LOVER.
+
+
+ Amid my bale I bathe in bliss,
+ I swim in Heaven, I sink in hell:
+ I find amends for every miss,
+ And yet my moan no tongue can tell.
+ I live and love (what would you more?)
+ As never lover lived before.
+
+ I laugh sometimes with little lust,
+ So jest I oft and feel no joy;
+ Mine eye is builded all on trust,
+ And yet mistrust breeds mine annoy.
+ I live and lack, I lack and have;
+ I have and miss the thing I crave.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Then like the lark that passed the night
+ In heavy sleep with cares oppressed;
+ Yet when she spies the pleasant light,
+ She sends sweet notes from out her breast;
+ So sing I now because I think
+ How joys approach when sorrows shrink.
+
+ And as fair Philomene again
+ Can watch and sing when others sleep;
+ And taketh pleasure in her pain,
+ To wray the woe that makes her weep;
+ So sing I now for to bewray
+ The loathsome life I lead alway.
+
+ The which to thee, dear wench, I write,
+ Thou know'st my mirth but not my moan;
+ I pray God grant thee deep delight,
+ To live in joys when I am gone.
+ I cannot live; it will not be:
+ I die to think to part from thee.
+
+George Gascoigne.
+
+
+
+
+TO PHYLLIS, THE FAIR SHEPHERDESS.
+
+
+ My Phyllis hath the morning sun
+ At first to look upon her:
+ And Phyllis hath morn-waking birds
+ Her rising still to honour.
+ My Phyllis hath prime feathered flowers
+ That smile when she treads on them:
+ And Phyllis hath a gallant flock
+ That leaps since she doth own them.
+ But Phyllis hath too hard a heart,
+ Alas, that she should have it!
+ It yields no mercy to desert
+ Nor peace to those that crave it.
+ Sweet Sun, when thou look'st on,
+ Pray her regard my moan!
+ Sweet birds, when you sing to her,
+ To yield some pity woo her!
+ Sweet flowers, that she treads on,
+ Tell her, her beauty dreads one;
+ And if in life her love she'll not agree me,
+ Pray her before I die, she will come see me.
+
+Sir Edward Dyer.
+
+
+
+
+THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD.
+
+
+ O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed!
+ Thou mak'st my heart
+ A bloody mark,
+ With piercing shot to bleed.
+
+ Shoot soft, sweet Love! for fear thou shoot amiss,
+ For fear too keen
+ Thy arrows been,
+ And hit the heart where my Beloved is.
+
+ Too fair that fortune were, nor never I
+ Shall be so blest,
+ Among the rest,
+ That Love shall seize on her by sympathy.
+
+ Then since with Love my prayers bear no boot,
+ This doth remain
+ To cease my pain:
+ I take the wound, and die at Venus' foot.
+
+George Peele.
+
+
+
+
+HIS LOVE ADMITS NO RIVAL.
+
+
+ Shall I like a hermit dwell,
+ On a rock, or in a cell,
+ Calling home the smallest part
+ That is missing of my heart,
+ To bestow it where I may
+ Meet a rival every day?
+ If she undervalue me,
+ What care I how fair she be?
+
+ Were her tresses angel gold,
+ If a stranger may be bold,
+ Unrebuked, unafraid,
+ To convert them to a braid,
+ And with little more ado
+ Work them into bracelets too?
+ If the mine be grown so free,
+ What care I how rich it be?
+
+ Were her hand as rich a prize
+ As her hairs, or precious eyes,
+ If she lay them out to take
+ Kisses, for good manners' sake:
+ And let every lover skip
+ From her hand unto her lip;
+ If she seem not chaste to me,
+ What care I how chaste she be?
+
+ No; she must be perfect snow,
+ In effect as well as show;
+ Warming, but as snowballs do,
+ Not like fire, by burning too;
+ But when she by change hath got
+ To her heart a second lot,
+ Then if others share with me,
+ Farewell her, whate'er she be!
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE.
+
+
+ "Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell!"--
+ It is that fountain, and that well,
+ Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
+ It is, perhaps, that passing bell
+ That tolls us all to heaven or hell;
+ And this is love, as I heard tell.
+
+ "Yet, what is love? good shepherd, saine!"--
+ It is a sunshine mix'd with rain;
+ It is a toothache, or like pain;
+ It is a game where none doth gain:
+ The lass saith No, and would full fain!
+ And this is love, as I hear saine.
+
+ "Yet, shepherd, what is love, I pray?"--
+ It is a "Yea," it is a "Nay,"
+ A pretty kind of sporting fray;
+ It is a thing will soon away;
+ Then, nymphs, take vantage while ye may,
+ And this is love, as I hear say.
+
+ "Yet what is love? good shepherd, show!"--
+ A thing that creeps, it cannot go,
+ A prize that passeth to and fro,
+ A thing for one, a thing for moe;
+ And he that proves shall find it so;
+ And, shepherd, this is love, I trow.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+
+
+
+THE SHEPHERDESS'S REPLY TO THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD.
+
+
+ If all 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.
+
+ But time drives flocks from field to fold,
+ When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold;
+ Then Philomel becometh dumb,
+ The rest complains of cares to come.
+
+ The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
+ To wayward winter reckoning yields;
+ A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
+ Is fancy's spring: but sorrow's fall.
+
+ Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses,
+ Thy cup, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
+ Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten;--
+ In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
+
+ The belt of straw and ivy-buds,
+ Thy coral clasps and amber studs,--
+ All these in me no means can move,
+ To come to thee, and be thy love.
+
+ What should we talk of dainties, then,
+ Of better meat than's fit for men?
+ These are but vain: that's only good
+ Which God hath bless'd and sent for food.
+
+ But could youth last, and love still breed;
+ Had joys no date, nor age no need;
+ Then those delights my mind might move,
+ To live with thee, and be thy love.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh.
+
+[See "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," page 50.]
+
+
+
+
+LOVE FOR LOVE.
+
+
+ Away with these self-loving lads
+ Whom Cupid's arrow never glads!
+ Away, poor souls, that sigh and weep,
+ In love of them that lie and sleep!
+ For Cupid is a merry god,
+ And forceth none to kiss the rod.
+
+ Sweet Cupid's shafts, like Destiny,
+ Do causeless good or ill decree;
+ Desert is borne out of his bow,
+ Reward upon his wing doth go:
+ What fools are they that have not known
+ That Love likes no laws but his own!
+
+ My songs, they be of Cynthia's praise:
+ I wear her rings on holy days;
+ On every tree I write her name,
+ And every day I read the same:
+ Where Honour Cupid's rival is,
+ There miracles are seen of his.
+
+ If Cynthia crave her ring of me,
+ I blot her name out of the tree;
+ If doubt do darken things held dear,
+ Then "farewell nothing," once a year:
+ For many run, but one must win;
+ Fools only hedge the cuckoo in.
+
+ The worth that worthiness should move
+ Is love, which is the due of love;
+ And love as well the shepherd can
+ As can the mighty nobleman:--
+ Sweet nymph, 'tis true, you worthy be;
+ Yet, without love, nought worth to me.
+
+Fulke-Greville, Lord Brooke.
+
+
+
+
+CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE: APELLES' SONG.
+
+
+ Cupid and my Campaspe played
+ At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.
+ He stakes his quiver, bows and arrows,
+ His mother's doves and team of sparrows;
+ Loses them too; then down he throws
+ The coral of his lip, the rose
+ Growing on 's cheek, but none knows how;
+ With these the crystal of his brow,
+ And then the dimple of his chin--
+ All these did my Campaspe win.
+ At last he set her both his eyes.--
+ She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
+ O Love, has she done this to thee?
+ What shall, alas! become of me?
+
+John Lyly.
+
+
+
+
+A DITTY.
+
+
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
+ By just exchange one to the other given:
+ I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
+ There never was a better bargain driven:
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
+
+ His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
+ My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
+ He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
+ I cherish his because in me it bides:
+ My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE IS DEAD.
+
+
+ Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread;
+ For Love is dead:
+ All Love is dead, infected
+ With plague of deep disdain:
+ Worth, as nought worth, rejected,
+ And Faith fair scorn doth gain.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Weep, neighbours, weep; do you not hear it said
+ That Love is dead?
+ His death-bed, peacock's folly;
+ His winding-sheet is shame;
+ His will, false-seeming holy;
+ His sole executor, blame.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Let dirge be sung, and trentals rightly read,
+ For Love is dead;
+ Sir Wrong his tomb ordaineth
+ My mistress' marble heart;
+ Which epitaph containeth,
+ _Her eyes were once his dart_.
+ From so ungrateful fancy,
+ From such a female franzy,
+ From them that use men thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+ Alas, I lie; rage hath this error bred;
+ Love is not dead;
+ Love is not dead, but sleepeth
+ In his unmatched mind,
+ Where she his counsel keepeth,
+ Till due deserts she find:
+ Therefore from so vile fancy,
+ To call such wit a franzy,
+ Who Love can temper thus,
+ Good Lord, deliver us!
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+HE THAT LOVES.
+
+
+ He that loves and fears to try,
+ Learns his mistress to deny.
+ Doth she chide thee? 'tis to show it
+ That thy coldness makes her do it.
+ Is she silent, is she mute?
+ Silence fully grants thy suit.
+ Doth she pout and leave the room?
+ Then she goes to bid thee come.
+
+ Is she sick? why then be sure
+ She invites thee to the cure.
+ Doth she cross thy suit with "No"?
+ Tush! she loves to hear thee woo.
+ Doth she call the faith of men
+ In question? nay, she loves thee then,
+ And if e'er she makes a blot,
+ She's lost if that thou hit'st her not.
+
+ He that after ten denials
+ Doth attempt no further trials,
+ Hath no warrant to acquire
+ The dainties of his chaste desire.
+
+Sir Philip Sidney.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S WANTONNESS.
+
+
+ Love guards the roses of thy lips,
+ And flies about them like a bee:
+ If I approach, he forward skips,
+ And if I kiss, he stingeth me.
+ Love in thine eyes doth build his bower,
+ And sleeps within their pretty shine;
+ And if I look, the boy will lower,
+ And from their orbs shoot shafts divine.
+ Love works thy heart within his fire,
+ And in my tears doth firm the same;
+ And if I tempt, it will retire,
+ And of my plaints doth make a game.
+ Love, let me cull her choicest flowers,
+ And pity me, and calm her eye;
+ Make soft her heart, dissolve her lowers,
+ Then will I praise thy deity,
+ But if thou do not, Love, I'll truly serve her
+ In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her.
+
+Thomas Lodge.
+
+
+
+
+ROSALINE.
+
+
+ Like to the clear in highest sphere
+ Where all imperial glory shines,
+ Of selfsame colour is her hair
+ Whether unfolded, or in twines:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Her eyes are sapphires set in snow,
+ Resembling heaven by every wink;
+ The Gods do fear whenas they glow,
+ And I do tremble when I think
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
+ That beautifies Aurora's face,
+ Or like the silver crimson shroud
+ That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace;
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Her lips are like two budded roses
+ Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh,
+ Within which bounds she balm encloses
+ Apt to entice a deity:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Her neck is like a stately tower
+ Where Love himself imprison'd lies,
+ To watch for glances every hour
+ From her divine and sacred eyes:
+ Heigh ho, for Rosaline!
+ Her paps are centres of delight,
+ Her breasts are orbs of heavenly frame,
+ Where Nature moulds the dew of light
+ To feed perfection with the same:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ With orient pearl, with ruby red,
+ With marble white, with sapphire blue
+ Her body every way is fed,
+ Yet soft in touch and sweet in view:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
+ Nature herself her shape admires;
+ The Gods are wounded in her sight;
+ And Love forsakes his heavenly fires
+ And at her eyes his brand doth light:
+ Heigh ho, would she were mine!
+
+ Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan
+ The absence of fair Rosaline,
+ Since for a fair there's fairer none,
+ Nor for her virtues so divine:
+ Heigh ho, fair Rosaline;
+ Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!
+
+Thomas Lodge.
+
+
+
+
+THE MAY QUEEN.
+
+
+ With fragrant flowers we strew the way,
+ And make this our chief holiday;
+ For though this clime were blest of yore,
+ Yet was it never proud before.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeigned joy!
+
+ Now th' air is sweeter than sweet balm,
+ And satyrs dance about the palm;
+ Now earth, with verdure newly dight,
+ Gives perfect signs of her delight.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeigned joy!
+
+ Now birds recall new harmony,
+ And trees do whistle melody;
+ Now everything that nature breeds,
+ Doth clad itself in pleasant weeds.
+ O beauteous Queen of second Troy,
+ Accept of our unfeigned joy!
+
+Thomas Watson.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.
+
+
+ In the merry month of May,
+ In a morn by break of day,
+ With a troop of damsels playing,
+ Forth I rode, forsooth, a-maying,
+ When anon by a woodside,
+ Where as May was in his pride,
+ I espied, all alone,
+ Phillida and Corydon.
+
+ Much ado there was, God wot!
+ He would love, and she would not:
+ She said, never man was true:
+ He said, none was false to you.
+ He said, he had loved her long:
+ She said, love should have no wrong.
+
+ Corydon would kiss her then,
+ She said, maids must kiss no men,
+ Till they do for good and all;
+ Then she made the shepherd call
+ All the heavens to witness truth,
+ Never loved a truer youth.
+
+ Thus with many a pretty oath,
+ Yea, and nay, and faith and troth,
+ Such as silly shepherds use
+ When they will not love abuse;
+ Love, which had been long deluded,
+ Was with kisses sweet concluded:
+ And Phillida with garlands gay,
+ Was made the lady of the May.
+
+Richard Breton.
+
+
+
+
+SHALL I COME, SWEET LOVE?
+
+
+ Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee
+ When the evening beams are set?
+ Shall I not excluded be,
+ Will you find no feigned let?
+ Let me not, for pity, more
+ Tell the long hours at your door.
+
+ Who can tell what thief or foe,
+ In the covert of the night,
+ For his prey will work my woe,
+ Or through wicked foul despite?
+ So may I die unredrest
+ Ere my long love be possest.
+
+ But to let such dangers pass,
+ Which a lover's thoughts disdain,
+ 'Tis enough in such a place
+ To attend love's joys in vain:
+ Do not mock me in thy bed,
+ While these cold nights freeze me dead.
+
+Thomas Campion.
+
+
+
+
+CHERRY-RIPE.
+
+
+ There is a garden in her face
+ Where roses and white lilies blow;
+ A heavenly paradise that place,
+ Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
+ There cherries grow that none may buy,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+ Those cherries fairly do enclose
+ Of orient pearl a double row,
+ Which when her lovely laughter shows,
+ They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow.
+ Yet them no peer nor prince may buy,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+ Her eyes like angels watch them still;
+ Her brows like bended bows do stand,
+ Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
+ All that approach with eye or hand
+ These sacred cherries to come nigh,
+ Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
+
+Thomas Campion.
+
+
+
+
+FAIR SAMELA.
+
+
+ Like to Diana in her summer weed,
+ Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
+ Goes fair Samela;
+
+ Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed,
+ When wash'd by Arethusa's fount they lie,
+ Is fair Samela;
+
+ As fair Aurora in her morning gray,
+ Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love,
+ Is fair Samela;
+
+ Like lovely Thetis on a calmed day,
+ Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move,
+ Shines fair Samela;
+
+ Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams,
+ Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory
+ Of fair Samela;
+
+ Her cheeks, like rose and lily, yield forth gleams,
+ Her brows, bright arches fram'd of ebony;
+ Thus fair Samela
+
+ Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue,
+ And Juno in the show of majesty,
+ (For she's Samela!)
+
+ Pallas in wit,--all three, if you well view,
+ For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity
+ Yield to Samela.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+KINDS OF LOVE.
+
+
+ Foolish love is only folly;
+ Wanton love is too unholy;
+ Greedy love is covetous;
+ Idle love is frivolous;
+ But the gracious love is it
+ That doth prove the work of wit.
+
+ Beauty but deceives the eye;
+ Flattery leads the ear awry;
+ Wealth doth but enchant the wit;
+ Want, the overthrow of it;
+ While in Wisdom's worthy grace,
+ Virtue sees the sweetest face.
+
+ There hath Love found out his life,
+ Peace without all thought of strife;
+ Kindness in Discretion's care;
+ Truth, that clearly doth declare
+ Faith doth in true fancy prove,
+ Lust the excrements of Love.
+
+ Then in faith may fancy see
+ How my love may construed be;
+ How it grows and what it seeks;
+ How it lives and what it likes;
+ So in highest grace regard it,
+ Or in lowest scorn discard it.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE AND BEAUTY.
+
+
+ Pretty twinkling starry eyes,
+ How did Nature first devise
+ Such a sparkling in your sight
+ As to give Love such delight,
+ As to make him like a fly,
+ Play with looks until he die?
+
+ Sure ye were not made at first
+ For such mischief to be curst;
+ As to kill Affection's care
+ That doth only truth declare;
+ Where worth's wonders never wither,
+ Love and Beauty live together.
+
+ Blessed eyes, then give your blessing,
+ That in passion's best expressing;
+ Love that only lives to grace ye,
+ May not suffer pride deface ye;
+ But in gentle thought's directions
+ Show the power of your perfections.
+
+Robert Greene.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S SERVILE LOT.
+
+
+ Love mistress is of many minds,
+ Yet few know whom they serve;
+ They reckon least how little hope
+ Their service doth deserve.
+
+ The will she robbeth from the wit,
+ The sense from reason's lore;
+ She is delightful in the rind,
+ Corrupted in the core.
+
+ May never was the month of love,
+ For May is full of flowers;
+ But rather April, wet by kind;
+ For love is full of showers.
+
+ With soothing words inthralled souls
+ She chains in servile bands!
+ Her eye in silence hath a speech
+ Which eye best understands.
+
+ Her little sweet hath many sours,
+ Short hap, immortal harms;
+ Her loving looks are murdering darts,
+ Her songs bewitching charms.
+
+ Like winter rose, and summer ice,
+ Her joys are still untimely;
+ Before her hope, behind remorse,
+ Fair first, in fine unseemly.
+
+ Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,
+ Leave off your idle pain;
+ Seek other mistress for your minds,
+ Love's service is in vain.
+
+Robert Southwell.
+
+
+
+
+THE HEART OF STONE.
+
+
+ Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose!
+ It was from cheeks that shame the rose,
+ From lips that spoil the ruby's praise,
+ From eyes that mock the diamond's blaze:
+ Whence comes my woe? as freely own;
+ Ah me! 'twas from a heart like stone.
+
+ The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,
+ The lips befitting words most kind,
+ The eye does tempt to love's desire,
+ And seems to say, "'Tis Cupid's fire;"
+ Yet all so fair but speak my moan,
+ Since nought doth say the heart of stone.
+
+ Why thus, my love, so kind bespeak
+ Sweet eye, sweet lip, sweet blushing cheek,--
+ Yet not a heart to save my pain?
+ O Venus, take thy gifts again!
+ Make not so fair to cause our moan,
+ Or make a heart that's like your own.
+
+John Harrington.
+
+
+
+
+A SHEPHERD'S SONG TO HIS LOVE.
+
+
+ Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly,
+ White as the sun, fair as the lily,
+ Heigh-ho, how I do love thee!
+ I do love thee as my lambs
+ Are beloved of their dams:
+ How blest I were if thou would'st prove me!
+
+ Diaphenia, like the spreading roses,
+ That in thy sweets all sweets encloses,
+ Fair sweet, how I do love thee!
+ I do love thee as each flower
+ Loves the sun's life-giving power;
+ For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.
+
+ Diaphenia, like to all things blessed,
+ When all thy praises are expressed,
+ Dear joy, how I do love thee!
+ As the birds do love the spring,
+ Or the bees their careful king:
+ Then, in requite, sweet virgin, love me!
+
+Henry Constable.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE NOW, FOR ROSES FADE.
+
+
+ Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose,
+ The image of thy blush, and summer's honour!
+ Whilst yet her tender bud doth undisclose
+ That full of beauty Time bestows upon her:
+ No sooner spreads her glory in the air,
+ But straight her wide-blown pomp comes to decline;
+ She then is scorn'd, that late adorn'd the fair.
+ So fade the roses of those cheeks of thine!
+
+ No April can revive thy withered flowers,
+ Whose springing grace adorns thy glory now:
+ Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
+ Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
+ Then do not thou such treasure waste in vain,
+ But love now, whilst thou may'st be loved again.
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+EARLY LOVE.
+
+
+ Ah! I remember well (and how can I
+ But evermore remember well) when first
+ Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was
+ The flame we felt; when as we sat and sigh'd
+ And look'd upon each other, and conceived
+ Not what we ail'd--yet something we did ail;
+ And yet were well, and yet we were not well,
+ And what was our disease we could not tell.
+ Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look; and thus
+ In that first garden of our simpleness
+ We spent our childhood. But when years began
+ To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then
+ Would she with graver looks, with sweet, stern brow,
+ Check my presumption and my forwardness;
+ Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show
+ What she would have me, yet not have me know.
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE IS A SICKNESS.
+
+
+ Love is a sickness full of woes,
+ All remedies refusing;
+ A plant that most with cutting grows,
+ Most barren with best using.
+ Why so?
+ More we enjoy it, more it dies,
+ If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
+ Heigh-ho!
+
+ Love is a torment of the mind,
+ A tempest everlasting;
+ And Jove hath made it of a kind
+ Not well, nor full nor fasting.
+ Why so?
+ More we enjoy it, more it dies,
+ If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
+ Heigh-ho!
+
+Samuel Daniel.
+
+
+
+
+THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.
+
+
+ Come live with me, and be my love,
+ And we will all the pleasures prove
+ That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields,
+ 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 a thousand fragrant posies:
+ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,
+ Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
+
+ A gown made of the finest wool,
+ Which from our pretty lambs we'll pull;
+ Fair lined slippers for the cold,
+ With buckles of the purest gold.
+
+ A belt of straw and ivy buds,
+ With coral clasps and amber studs:
+ And if these pleasures may thee move,
+ Come live with me and be my love.
+
+ The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
+ For thy delight each May morning.
+ If these delights thy mind may move,
+ Come live with me and be my love.
+
+Christopher Marlowe.
+
+[See "The Shepherdess's Reply to The Passionate Pilgrim," page 22.]
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE.
+
+
+ Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
+ And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
+ Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain
+ Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
+
+ Were I as high as heaven above the plain,
+ And you, my Love, as humble and as low
+ As are the deepest bottoms of the main,
+ Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go.
+
+ Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies,
+ My love should shine on you like to the sun,
+ And look upon you with ten thousand eyes
+ Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
+
+ Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you,
+ Whereso'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.
+
+J. Sylvester.
+
+
+
+
+A PARTING; OR, LOVE'S LAST CHANCE.
+
+
+ Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part:
+ Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
+ And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
+ That thus so clearly I myself can free.
+ Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
+ And, when we meet at any time again,
+ Be it not seen in either of our brows
+ That we one jot of former love retain.
+ Now, at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
+ When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
+ When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
+ And Innocence is closing up his eyes;
+ Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
+ From death to life thou mightst him yet recover.
+
+Michael Drayton.
+
+
+
+
+WHO IS SILVIA?
+
+
+ Who is Silvia? What is she,
+ That all our swains commend her?
+ Holy, fair, and wise is she:
+ The heavens such grace did lend her,
+ That she might admired be.
+
+ Is she kind as she is fair?
+ For beauty lives with kindness.
+ Love doth to her eyes repair
+ To help him of his blindness,
+ And, being helped, inhabits there.
+
+ Then to Silvia let us sing,
+ That Silvia is excelling;
+ She excels each mortal thing
+ Upon the dull earth dwelling:
+ To her let us garlands bring.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+SIGH NO MORE, LADIES.
+
+
+ Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
+ Men were deceivers ever,
+ One foot in sea and one on shore,
+ To one thing constant never:
+ Then sigh not so,
+ But let them go,
+ And be you blithe and bonny,
+ Converting all your sounds of woe
+ Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+ Sing no more ditties, sing no moe
+ Of dumps so dull and heavy;
+ The fraud of men was ever so,
+ Since summer first was leafy.
+ Then sigh not so,
+ But let them go,
+ And be you blithe and bonny,
+ Converting all your sounds of woe
+ Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN.
+
+
+ Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
+ And Phoebus 'gins arise';
+ His steeds to water at those springs
+ On chalic'd flowers that lies;
+ And winking Mary-buds begin
+ To ope their golden eyes:
+ With everything that pretty is,
+ My lady sweet arise:
+ Arise, arise.
+
+William Shakespeare.
+
+
+
+
+THE UNFAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.
+
+
+ While that the sun with his beams hot
+ Scorched the fruits in vale and mountain,
+ Philon the shepherd, late forgot,
+ Sitting beside a crystal fountain,
+ In shadow of a green oak tree
+ Upon his pipe this song play'd he:
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ So long as I was in your sight
+ I was your heart, your soul, and treasure;
+ And evermore you sobb'd and sigh'd
+ Burning in flames beyond all measure:
+ --Three days endured your love to me,
+ And it was lost in other three!
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ Another Shepherd you did see
+ To whom your heart was soon enchained;
+ Full soon your love was leapt from me,
+ Full soon my place he had obtained.
+ Soon came a third, your love to win,
+ And we were out and he was in.
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+ Sure you have made me passing glad
+ That you your mind so soon removed,
+ Before that I the leisure had
+ To choose you for my best beloved:
+ For all your love was past and done
+ Two days before it was begun:--
+ Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
+ Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love;
+ Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.
+
+Anon., circa 1564.
+
+
+
+
+TRUE LOVELINESS.
+
+
+ It is not Beauty I demand,
+ A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
+ Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
+ Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair:
+
+ Tell me not of your starry eyes,
+ Your lips that seem on roses fed,
+ Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies,
+ Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed:--
+
+ A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks,
+ Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours,
+ A breath that softer music speaks
+ Than summer winds a-wooing flowers,
+
+ These are but gauds: nay, what are lips?
+ Coral beneath the ocean-stream,
+ Whose brink when your adventurer slips,
+ Full oft he perisheth on them.
+
+ And what are cheeks, but ensigns oft
+ That wave hot youth to fields of blood?
+ Did Helen's breast, though ne'er so soft,
+ Do Greece or Ilium any good?
+
+ Eyes can with baleful ardour burn;
+ Poison can breathe, that erst perfumed;
+ There's many a white hand holds an urn
+ With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.
+
+ For crystal brows there's nought within,
+ They are but empty cells for pride;
+ He who the Siren's hair would win
+ Is mostly strangled in the tide.
+
+ Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,
+ A tender heart, a loyal mind,
+ Which with temptation I would trust,
+ Yet never link'd with error find,--
+
+ One in whose gentle bosom I
+ Could pour my secret heart of woes,
+ Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly
+ That hides his murmurs in the rose,--
+
+ My earthly Comforter! whose love
+ So indefeasible might be,
+ That when my spirit wonn'd above,
+ Hers could not stay, for sympathy.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+A WOMAN'S REASON.
+
+
+ Love me not for comely grace,
+ For my pleasing eye or face,
+ Nor for any outward part;
+ No! nor for my constant heart,--
+ For these may fail, or turn to ill;
+ So thou and I shall sever:
+ Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
+ And love me well, but know not why.
+ So hast thou the same reason still
+ To dote upon me ever!
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY.
+
+
+ Over the mountains
+ And over the waves,
+ Under the fountains
+ And under the graves;
+ Under floods that are deepest,
+ Which Neptune obey;
+ Over rocks that are steepest,
+ Love will find out the way.
+
+ Where there is no place
+ For the glow-worm to lie;
+ Where there is no space
+ For receipt of a fly;
+ Where the midge dares not venture,
+ Lest herself fast she lay;
+ If love come, he will enter
+ And soon find out his way.
+
+ You may esteem him
+ A child for his might;
+ Or you may deem him
+ A coward for his flight;
+ But if she whom Love doth honour
+ Be concealed from the day,
+ Set a thousand guards upon her,
+ Love will find out the way.
+
+ Some think to lose him
+ By having him confin'd,
+ And some do suppose him,
+ Poor thing, to be blind;
+ But if ne'er so close you wall him,
+ Do the best that you may;
+ Blind Love, if so ye call him,
+ Will find out his way.
+
+ You may train the eagle
+ To stoop to your fist;
+ Or you may inveigle
+ The Phoenix of the East;
+ The lioness, you may move her
+ To give o'er her prey;
+ But you will never stop a lover--
+ He will find out his way.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.
+
+
+ Oh, what a plague is love!
+ I cannot bear it,
+ She will inconstant prove,
+ I greatly fear it;
+ It so torments my mind,
+ That my heart faileth,
+ She wavers with the wind,
+ As a ship saileth;
+ Please her the best I may,
+ She looks another way;
+ Alack and well a-day!
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+ I often heard her say
+ That she loved posies:
+ In the last month of May
+ I gave her roses,
+ Cowslips and gillyflow'rs
+ And the sweet lily,
+ I got to deck the bow'rs
+ Of my dear Philly;
+ She did them all disdain,
+ And threw them back again;
+ Therefore, 'tis flat and plain
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+ Which way soe'er I go,
+ She still torments me;
+ And whatsoe'er I do,
+ Nothing contents me:
+ I fade, and pine away
+ With grief and sorrow;
+ I fall quite to decay,
+ Like any shadow;
+ Since 'twill no better be,
+ I'll bear it patiently;
+ Yet all the world may see
+ Phillida flouts me.
+
+Circa 1610.
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF TWO.
+
+
+ Faustina hath the fairest face,
+ And Phillida the better grace;
+ Both have mine eye enriched:
+ This sings full sweetly with her voice;
+ Her fingers make so sweet a noise:
+ Both have mine ear bewitched.
+ Ah me! sith Fates have so provided,
+ My heart, alas! must be divided.
+
+Anon.
+
+
+
+
+TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS.
+
+
+ I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair,
+ And I might have gone near to love thee,
+ Had I not found the slightest prayer
+ That lips could speak, had power to move thee;
+ But I can let thee now alone,
+ As worthy to be loved by none.
+
+ I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find
+ Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets,
+ Thy favours are but like the wind,
+ That kisses everything it meets;
+ And since thou can with more than one,
+ Thou'rt worthy to be kiss'd by none.
+
+ The morning rose that untouch'd stands,
+ Arm'd with her briars, how sweetly smells;
+ But, pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands,
+ Her sweet no longer with her dwells.
+ But scent and beauty both are gone,
+ And leaves fall from her, one by one.
+
+ Such fate ere long will thee betide,
+ When thou hast handled been a while;
+ Like sere flowers to be thrown aside;--
+ And I will sigh, while some will smile,
+ To see thy love for more than one
+ Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun.
+
+
+
+
+ON WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY.
+
+
+ I Lov'd thee once, I'll love no more,
+ Thine be the grief as is the blame;
+ Thou art not what thou wert before,
+ What reason I should be the same?
+ He that can love unlov'd again,
+ Hath better store of love than brain:
+ God send me love my debts to pay,
+ While unthrifts fool their love away.
+
+ Nothing could have my love o'erthrown,
+ If thou hadst still continued mine;
+ Yea, if thou hadst remain'd thy own,
+ I might perchance have yet been thine.
+ But thou thy freedom did recall,
+ That if thou might elsewhere inthral;
+ And then how could I but disdain
+ A captive's captive to remain?
+
+ When new desires had conquer'd thee,
+ And chang'd the object of thy will,
+ It had been lethargy in me,
+ Not constancy to love thee still.
+ Yea it had been a sin to go
+ And prostitute affection so,
+ Since we are taught no prayers to say
+ To such as must to others pray.
+
+ Yet do thou glory in thy choice,
+ Thy choice of his good fortune's boast;
+ I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice
+ To see him gain what I have lost;
+ The height of my disdain shall be,
+ To laugh at him, to blush for thee;
+ To love thee still, but go no more
+ A-begging to a beggar's door.
+
+Sir Robert Aytoun.
+
+
+
+
+THE THREE STATES OF WOMAN.
+
+
+ In a maiden-time profess'd,
+ Then we say that life is bless'd;
+ Tasting once the married life,
+ Then we only praise the wife;
+ There's but one state more to try,
+ Which makes women laugh or cry--
+ Widow, widow: of these three
+ The middle's best, and that give me.
+
+Thomas Middleton.
+
+
+
+
+MY LOVE AND I MUST PART.
+
+
+ Weep eyes, break heart!
+ My love and I must part.
+ Cruel fates true love do soonest sever;
+ O, I shall see thee never, never, never!
+ O, happy is the maid whose life takes end
+ Ere it knows parent's frown or loss of friend!
+ Weep eyes, break heart!
+ My love and I must part.
+
+Thomas Middleton.
+
+
+
+
+PERFECT BEAUTY.
+
+
+ It was a beauty that I saw,
+ So pure, so perfect, as the frame
+ Of all the universe was lame,
+ To that one figure, could I draw,
+ Or give least line of it a law!
+ A skein of silk without a knot,
+ A fair march made without a halt,
+ A curious form without a fault,
+ A printed book without a blot,
+ All beauty, and without a spot!
+
+Ben Jonson.
+
+
+
+
+TO CELIA.
+
+
+ Drink to me only with thine eyes,
+ And I will pledge with mine;
+ Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
+ And I'll not look for wine.
+ The thirst that from the soul doth rise
+ Doth ask a drink divine;
+ But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
+ I would not change for thine.
+
+ I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
+ Not so much honouring thee
+ As giving it a hope that there
+ It could not withered be:
+ But thou thereon didst only breathe
+ And sent'st it back to me;
+ Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
+ Not of itself, but thee!
+
+Ben Jonson.
+
+
+
+
+A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
+ To-morrow, when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?
+ Wilt thou then ante-date some new-made vow?
+ Or say, that now
+ We are not just those persons which we were?
+ Or, that oaths made in reverential fear
+ Of Love and his wrath any may forswear?
+ Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,
+ So lovers' contracts, images of those,
+ Bind but till Sleep, Death's image, them unloose?
+ Or, your own end to justify
+ For having purposed change and falsehood, you
+ Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
+ Vain lunatic! Against these scapes I could
+ Dispute and conquer if I would;
+ Which I abstain to do;
+ For, by to-morrow, I may think so too.
+
+Dr. John Donne.
+
+
+
+
+SWEETEST LOVE.
+
+
+ Sweetest love, I do not go
+ For weariness of thee,
+ Nor in hope the world can show
+ A fitter love for me.
+ But since that I
+ Must die at last, 'tis best
+ Thus to use myself in jest
+ By feigned death to die.
+
+ Yester-night the sun went hence,
+ And yet is here to-day;
+ He hath no desire nor sense,
+ Nor half so short a way:
+ Then fear not me,
+ But believe that I shall make
+ Hastier journeys, since I take
+ More wings and spurs than he.
+
+Dr. John Donne.
+
+
+
+
+TO AURORA.
+
+
+ O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm,
+ And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest;
+ Then would'st thou melt the ice out of thy breast,
+ And thy relenting heart would kindly warm.
+ O, if thy pride did not our joys control,
+ What world of loving wonders should'st thou see!
+ For if I saw thee once transform'd in me,
+ Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;
+ Then all my thoughts should in thy visage shine,
+ And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan
+ Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone:
+ No, I would have my share in what were thine:
+ And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one,
+ This happy harmony would make them none.
+
+W. Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIS.
+
+
+ In petticoat of green,
+ Her hair about her eyne,
+ Phillis, beneath an oak,
+ Sat milking her fair flock.
+ 'Mongst that sweet-strained moisture, rare delight!
+ Her hand seem'd milk, in milk it was so white.
+
+William Drummond.
+
+
+
+
+TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY.
+
+
+ Take, O, take those lips away,
+ That so sweetly were forsworn;
+ And those eyes, the break of day,
+ Lights that do mislead the morn:
+ But my kisses bring again, bring again;
+ Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
+
+ Hide, O, hide those hills of snow,
+ Which thy frozen bosom bears,
+ On whose tops the pinks that grow
+ Are of those that April wears;
+ But first set my poor heart free,
+ Bound in icy chains by thee.
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher.
+
+
+
+
+TELL ME, WHAT IS LOVE?
+
+
+ Tell me, dearest, what is love?
+ 'Tis a lightning from above,
+ 'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire,
+ 'Tis a boy they call Desire.
+ 'Tis a grave
+ Gapes to have
+ Those poor fools that long to prove.
+
+ Tell me more, are women true?
+ Yes, some are, and some as you;
+ Some are willing, some are strange,
+ Since you men first taught to change.
+ And till truth
+ Be in both
+ All shall love to love anew.
+
+ Tell me more yet, can they grieve?
+ Yes, and sicken sore, but live:
+ And be wise and delay,
+ When you men are as wise as they.
+ Then I see
+ Faith will be
+ Never till they both believe.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+PINING FOR LOVE.
+
+
+ How long shall I pine for love?
+ How long shall I sue in vain?
+ How long like the turtle-dove,
+ Shall I heartily thus complain?
+ Shall the sails of my heart stand still?
+ Shall the grists of my hope be unground?
+ Oh fie, oh fie, oh fie,
+ Let the mill, let the mill go round.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+FIE ON LOVE.
+
+
+ Now fie on foolish love, it not befits
+ Or man or woman know it.
+ Love was not meant for people in their wits,
+ And they that fondly show it
+ Betray the straw, and features in their brain,
+ And shall have Bedlam for their pain:
+ If simple love be such a curse,
+ To marry is to make it ten times worse.
+
+Francis Beaumont.
+
+
+
+
+DAMOETAS' PRAISE OF HIS DAPHNIS.
+
+
+ Tune on my pipe the praises of my love,
+ Love fair and bright;
+ Fill earth with sound, and airy heavens above,
+ Heavens Jove's delight,
+ With Daphnis' praise.
+
+ Her tresses are like wires of beaten gold,
+ Gold bright and sheen;
+ Like Nisus' golden hair that Scylla poll'd,
+ Scyll o'erseen
+ Through Minos' love.
+
+ Her eyes like shining lamps in midst of night,
+ Night dark and dead:
+ Or as the stars that give the seamen light,
+ Light for to lead
+ Their wandering ships.
+
+ Amidst her cheeks the rose and lily strive,
+ Lily snow-white:
+ When their contest doth make their colour thrive,
+ Colour too bright
+ For shepherds' eyes.
+
+ Her lips like scarlet of the finest dye,
+ Scarlet blood-red:
+ Teeth white as snow, which on the hills do lie,
+ Hills overspread
+ By winter's force.
+
+ Her skin as soft as is the finest silk,
+ Silk soft and fine:
+ Of colour like unto the whitest milk,
+ Milk of the kine
+ Of Daphnis' herd.
+
+ As swift of foot as is the pretty roe,
+ Roe swift of pace:
+ When yelping hounds pursue her to and fro,
+ Hounds fierce in chase
+ To reave her life.
+
+ Cease to tell of any more compare,
+ Compares too rude,
+ Daphnis' deserts and beauty are too rare:
+ Then here conclude
+ Fair Daphnis' praise.
+
+John Wootton.
+
+
+
+
+SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?
+
+
+ Shall I, wasting in despair,
+ Die because a woman's fair?
+ Or my cheeks make pale with care,
+ 'Cause another's rosy are?
+ Be she fairer than the day,
+ Or the flowery meads in May,
+ If she be not so to me,
+ What care I how fair she be?
+
+ Shall my foolish heart be pined
+ 'Cause I see a woman kind;
+ Or a well-disposed nature
+ Joined with a lovely feature?
+ Be she meeker, kinder, than
+ Turtle-dove or pelican,
+ If she be not so to me,
+ What care I how kind she be?
+
+ Shall a woman's virtues move
+ Me to perish for her love?
+ Or her merit's value known,
+ Make me quite forget mine own?
+ Be she with that goodness blest
+ Which may gain her name of Best;
+ If she seem not such to me,
+ What care I how good she be?
+
+ 'Cause her fortune seems too high,
+ Shall I play the fool and die?
+ Those that bear a noble mind,
+ Where they want, of riches find.
+ Think what with them they would do
+ Who without them dare to woo:
+ And unless that mind I see,
+ What care I tho' great she be?
+
+ Great or good, or kind or fair,
+ I will ne'er the more despair;
+ If she love me, this believe,
+ I will die ere she shall grieve;
+ If she slight me when I woo,
+ I can scorn and let her go;
+ For if she be not for me,
+ What care I for whom she be?
+
+George Wither.
+
+
+
+
+TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAISED MY MISTRESS'S BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND.
+
+
+ Wonder not, though I am blind,
+ For you must be
+ Dark in your eyes, or in your mind,
+ If, when you see
+ Her face, you prove not blind like me;
+ If the powerful beams that fly
+ From her eye,
+ And those amorous sweets that lie
+ Scatter'd in each neighbouring part,
+ Find a passage to your heart,
+ Then you'll confess your mortal sight
+ Too weak for such a glorious light:
+ For if her graces you discover,
+ You grow, like me, a dazzled lover;
+ But if those beauties you not spy,
+ Then are you blinder far than I.
+
+Thomas Carew.
+
+
+
+
+HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK
+
+
+ He that loves a rosy cheek,
+ Or a coral lip admires,
+ Or from star-like eyes doth seek
+ Fuel to maintain his fires;
+ As old Time makes these decay,
+ So his flames must waste away.
+
+ But a smooth and steadfast mind,
+ Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
+ Hearts with equal love combined,
+ Kindle never-dying fires;
+ Where these are not, I despise
+ Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
+
+Thomas Carew.
+
+
+
+
+MATIN SONG.
+
+
+ Rise, Lady Mistress! rise!
+ The night hath tedious been;
+ No sleep hath fallen into mine eyes,
+ Nor slumbers made me sin.
+ Is not she a saint, then, say!
+ Thought of whom keeps sin away?
+
+ Rise, madam! rise, and give me light,
+ Whom darkness still will cover,
+ And ignorance, more dark than night,
+ Till thou smile on thy lover.
+ All want day till thy beauty rise,
+ For the gray morn breaks from thine eyes.
+
+Nathaniel Field.
+
+
+
+
+JULIA.
+
+
+ Some asked me where the rubies grew,
+ And nothing did I say,
+ But with my finger pointed to
+ The lips of Julia.
+
+ Some asked how pearls did grow, and where;
+ Then spake I to my girl,
+ To part her lips and show me there
+ The quarelets of pearl.
+
+ One asked me where the roses grew;
+ I bade him not go seek,
+ But forthwith bade my Julia show
+ A bud in either cheek.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+CHERRY RIPE.
+
+
+ "Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe," I cry,
+ "Full and fair ones--come and buy;"
+ If so be you ask me where
+ They do grow? I answer, "There,
+ Where my Julia's lips do smile;"
+ There's the land, or cherry-isle,
+ Whose plantations fully show
+ All the year where cherries grow!
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+TO THE VIRGINS.
+
+
+ Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
+ Old Time is still a-flying;
+ And this same flower that smiles to-day,
+ To-morrow will be dying.
+
+ The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
+ The higher he's a-getting,
+ The sooner will his race be run,
+ And nearer he's to setting.
+
+ That age is best which is the first,
+ When youth and blood are warmer;
+ But being spent, the worse and worst
+ Times still succeed the former.
+
+ Then be not coy, but use your time,
+ And while ye may, go marry;
+ For having lost but once your prime,
+ You may for ever tarry.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+TO ELECTRA.
+
+
+ I dare not ask a kiss;
+ I dare not beg a smile;
+ Lest having that or this,
+ I might grow proud the while.
+
+ No, no, the utmost share
+ Of my desire shall be,
+ Only to kiss that air
+ That lately kissed thee.
+
+Robert Herrick.
+
+
+
+
+DRY THOSE EYES.
+
+
+ Dry those fair, those crystal eyes,
+ Which like growing fountains rise
+ To drown their banks! Grief's sullen brooks
+ Would better flow in furrow'd looks:
+ Thy lovely face was never meant
+ To be the shore of discontent.
+
+ Then clear those waterish stars again,
+ Which else portend a lasting rain;
+ Lest the clouds which settle there
+ Prolong my winter all the year,
+ And thy example others make
+ In love with sorrow, for thy sake.
+
+Dr. Henry King.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE'S CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again;
+ Sweet, if you shrink, I'll never think of love;
+ Fair, if you fail, I'll judge all beauty vain;
+ Wise, if too weak, more wits I'll never prove.
+ Dear, sweet, fair, wise,--change, shrink, nor be not weak;
+ And, on my faith, my faith shall never break.
+
+ Earth with her flowers shall sooner heaven adorn;
+ Heaven her bright stars through earth's dim globe shall move;
+ Fire heat shall lose, and frosts of flames be born;
+ Air, made to shine, as black as hell shall prove:
+ Earth, heaven, fire, air, the world transformed shall view,
+ Ere I prove false to faith, or strange to you.
+
+John Dowland.
+
+
+
+
+FAREWELL, MY JOY.
+
+
+ Farewell! my joy!
+ Adieu! my love and pleasure!
+ To sport and toy
+ We have no longer leisure.
+ Fa la la!
+
+ Farewell! adieu!
+ Until our next consorting!
+ Sweet love, be true!
+ And thus we end our sporting.
+ Fa la la!
+
+Thomas Weelkes.
+
+
+
+
+THE LARK NOW LEAVES HIS WAT'RY NEST.
+
+
+ The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest,
+ And climbing, shakes his dewy wings,
+ He takes your window for the east,
+ And to implore your light, he sings;
+ Awake, awake, the morn will never rise
+ Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes.
+
+ The merchant bows unto the seaman's star,
+ The ploughman from the sun his season takes;
+ But still the lover wonders what they are,
+ Who look for day before his mistress wakes.
+ Awake, awake, break through your veils of lawn,
+ Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn.
+
+Sir William Davenant.
+
+
+
+
+GO, LOVELY ROSE.
+
+
+ Go, lovely Rose,
+ Tell her that wastes her time and me,
+ That now she knows
+ When I resemble her to thee,
+ How sweet and fair she seems to be.
+
+ Tell her that's young,
+ And shuns to have her graces spied,
+ That had'st thou sprung
+ In deserts where no men abide,
+ Thou must have uncommended died.
+
+ Small is the worth
+ Of beauty from the light retired;
+ Bid her come forth,
+ Suffer herself to be desired,
+ And not blush so to be admired.
+
+ Then die, that she
+ The common fate of all things rare
+ May read in thee,
+ How small a part of time they share
+ Who are so wondrous sweet and fair!
+
+Edmund Waller.
+
+
+
+
+HIS MISTRESS.
+
+
+ I have a mistress, for perfections rare
+ In every eye, but in my thoughts most fair.
+ Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes;
+ Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice.
+ And wheresoe'er my fancy would begin,
+ Still her perfection lets religion in.
+ We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours
+ As chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers.
+ I touch her, like my beads, with devout care,
+ And come unto my courtship as my prayer.
+
+Thomas Randolph.
+
+
+
+
+CHLORIS.
+
+
+ Amyntas, go! Thou art undone,
+ Thy faithful heart is crossed by fate;
+ That love is better not begun,
+ Where love is come to love too late.
+
+ Yet who that saw fair Chloris weep
+ Such sacred dew, with such pure grace,
+ Durst think them feigned tears, or seek
+ For treason in an angel's face.
+
+Henry Vaughan.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG.
+
+
+ Love me little, love me long,
+ Is the burden of my song;
+ Love that is too hot and strong
+ Burneth soon to waste;
+ Still I would not have thee cold,
+ Or backward, or too bold,
+ For love that lasteth till 'tis old
+ Fadeth not in haste.
+
+ Winter's cold, or summer's heat,
+ Autumn tempests on it beat,
+ It can never know defeat,
+ Never can rebel;
+ Such the love that I would gain,
+ Such love, I tell thee plain,
+ That thou must give or love in vain,
+ So to thee farewell.
+
+Circa 1610.
+
+
+
+
+FAIN WOULD I CHANGE THAT NOTE.
+
+
+ Fain would I change that note
+ To which fond love hath charm'd me,
+ Long, long to sing by rote,
+ Fancying that that harm'd me:
+ Yet when this thought doth come,
+ "Love is the perfect sum
+ Of all delight,"
+ I have no other choice
+ Either for pen or voice
+ To sing or write.
+
+ O Love, they wrong thee much
+ That say thy sweet is bitter,
+ When thy rich fruit is such
+ As nothing can be sweeter.
+ Fair house of joy and bliss
+ Where truest pleasure is,
+ I do adore thee;
+ I know thee what thou art,
+ I serve thee with my heart,
+ And fall before thee.
+
+Captain Tobias Hume.
+
+
+
+
+TO ROSES IN CASTARA'S BREAST.
+
+
+ Ye blushing Virgins happy are
+ In the chaste Nunn'ry of her breasts,
+ For he'd profane so chaste a fair,
+ Whoe'er should call them Cupid's nests.
+
+ Transplanted thus how bright ye grow,
+ How rich a perfume do ye yield?
+ In some close garden, cowslips so
+ Are sweeter than in th' open field.
+
+ In those white Cloisters live secure
+ From the rude blasts of wanton breath,
+ Each hour more innocent and pure,
+ Till you shall wither into death.
+
+ Then that which living gave you room,
+ Your glorious sepulchre shall be;
+ There wants no marble for a tomb,
+ Whose breast hath marble been to me.
+
+William Habington.
+
+
+
+
+THOU PRETTY BIRD.
+
+
+ Thou pretty bird, how do I see
+ Thy silly state and mine agree!
+ For thou a prisoner art;
+ So is my heart.
+ Thou sing'st to her, and so do I address
+ My music to her ear that's merciless;
+ But herein doth the difference lie,--
+ That thou art graced; so am not I;
+ Thou singing livest, and I must singing die.
+
+John Danyel.
+
+
+
+
+ONCE I LOV'D A MAIDEN FAIR.
+
+
+ Once I lov'd a maiden fair,
+ But she did deceive me;
+ She with Venus might compare,
+ In my mind, believe me:
+ She was young, and among
+ All our maids the sweetest.
+ Now I say, ah! well-a-day!
+ Brightest hopes are fleetest.
+
+ I the wedding ring had got,
+ Wedding clothes provided,
+ Sure the church would bind a knot
+ Ne'er to be divided:
+ Married we straight must be,
+ She her vows had plighted;
+ Vows, alas! as frail as glass:
+ All my hopes are blighted.
+
+ Maidens wav'ring and untrue,
+ Many a heart have broken;
+ Sweetest lips the world e'er knew,
+ Falsest words have spoken.
+ Fare thee well, faithless girl,
+ I'll not sorrow for thee;
+ Once I held thee dear as pearl,
+ Now I do abhor thee.
+
+Temp. Jas. I. (condensed by T. Oxenford).
+
+
+
+
+I PR'YTHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.
+
+
+ I pr'ythee send me back my heart,
+ Since I cannot have thine;
+ For if from yours you will not part,
+ Why then shouldst thou have mine?
+
+ Yet now I think on't, let it lie;
+ To find it were in vain,
+ For thou'st a thief in either eye
+ Would steal it back again.
+
+ Why should two hearts in one breast lie,
+ And yet not lodge together?
+ O love! where is thy sympathy,
+ If thus our breasts you sever?
+
+ But love is such a mystery,
+ I cannot find it out;
+ For when I think I'm best resolved,
+ I then am most in doubt.
+
+ Then farewell love, and farewell woe,
+ I will no longer pine;
+ For I'll believe I have her heart
+ As much as she hath mine.
+
+Sir John Suckling.
+
+
+
+
+ORSAMES' SONG.
+
+
+ Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
+ Prithee, why so pale?
+ Will, when looking well can't move her,
+ Looking ill prevail?
+ Prithee, why so pale?
+
+ Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
+ Prithee, why so mute?
+ Will, when speaking well can't win her,
+ Saying nothing do't?
+ Prithee, why so mute?
+
+ Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,
+ This cannot take her;
+ If of herself she will not love,
+ Nothing can make her:
+ The devil take her!
+
+Sir John Suckling.
+
+
+
+
+SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE.
+
+
+ Since first I saw your face I resolved
+ To honour and renown you;
+ If now I be disdained
+ I wish my heart had never known you.
+ What! I that loved, and you that liked,
+ Shall we begin to wrangle?
+ No, no, no, my heart is fast
+ And cannot disentangle.
+
+ The sun whose beams most glorious are,
+ Rejecteth no beholder,
+ And your sweet beauty past compare,
+ Made my poor eyes the bolder.
+ Where beauty moves, and wit delights
+ And signs of kindness bind me,
+ There, oh! there, where'er I go
+ I leave my heart behind me.
+
+ If I admire or praise you too much,
+ That fault you may forgive me,
+ Or if my hands had strayed but a touch,
+ Then justly might you leave me.
+ I asked you leave, you bade me love;
+ Is't now a time to chide me?
+ No, no, no, I'll love you still,
+ What fortune e'er betide me.
+
+Circa 1617.
+
+
+
+
+THE GIVEN HEART.
+
+
+ I Wonder what those lovers mean, who say
+ They've given their hearts away.
+ Some good, kind lover, tell me how:
+ For mine is but a torment to me now.
+
+ If so it be one place both hearts contain,
+ For what do they complain?
+ What courtesy can Love do more,
+ Than to join hearts that parted were before?
+
+ Woe to her stubborn heart, if once mine come
+ Into the self-same room;
+ 'Twill tear and blow up all within
+ Like a grenade shot into a magazine.
+
+ Then shall Love keep the ashes and torn parts
+ Of both our broken hearts;
+ Shall out of both one new one make,
+ From hers th' alloy, from mine the metal take.
+
+ For of her heart he from the flames will find
+ But little left behind:
+ Mine only will remain entire,
+ No dross was there to perish in the fire.
+
+Abraham Cowley.
+
+
+
+
+ICE AND FIRE.
+
+
+ Naked Love did to thine eye,
+ Chloris, once to warm him, fly;
+ But its subtle flame, and light,
+ Scorch'd his wings, and spoiled his sight.
+
+ Forc'd from thence he went to rest
+ In the soft couch of thy breast:
+ But there met a frost so great,
+ As his torch extinguish'd straight.
+
+ When poor Cupid (thus constrain'd
+ His cold bed to leave) complain'd:
+ "'Las! what lodging's here for me,
+ If all ice and fire she be."
+
+Sir Edmund Sherburne.
+
+
+
+
+AMARANTHA.
+
+
+ Amarantha, sweet and fair,
+ Forbear to braid that shining hair;
+ As my curious hand or eye,
+ Hovering round thee, let it fly:
+
+ Let it fly as unconfined
+ As its ravisher the wind,
+ Who has left his darling east
+ To wanton o'er this spicy nest.
+
+ Every tress must be confess'd
+ But neatly tangled at the best,
+ Like a clew of golden thread,
+ Most excellently ravelled.
+
+ Do not then wind up that light
+ In ribands, and o'ercloud the night;
+ Like the sun in his early ray,
+ But shake your head and scatter day.
+
+Richard Lovelace.
+
+
+
+
+TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON.
+
+
+ When love, with unconfined wings,
+ Hovers within my gates,
+ And my divine Althea brings
+ To whisper at the grates;
+ When I lie tangled in her hair,
+ And fetter'd to her eye--
+ The birds that wanton in the air,
+ Know no such liberty.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Stone walls do not a prison make,
+ Nor iron bars a cage;
+ Minds innocent and quiet take
+ That for an hermitage.
+ If I have freedom in my love,
+ And in my soul am free,--
+ Angels alone, that soar above,
+ Enjoy such liberty.
+
+Richard Lovelace.
+
+
+
+
+A MOCK SONG.
+
+
+ Tis true I never was in love:
+ But now I mean to be,
+ For there's no art
+ Can shield a heart
+ From love's supremacy.
+
+ Though in my nonage I have seen
+ A world of taking faces,
+ I had not age or wit to ken
+ Their several hidden graces.
+
+ Those virtues which, though thinly set,
+ In others are admired,
+ In thee are altogether met,
+ Which make thee so desired.
+
+ That though I never was in love,
+ Nor never meant to be,
+ Thyself and parts
+ Above my arts
+ Have drawn my heart to thee.
+
+Alexander Brome.
+
+
+
+
+SPEAKING AND KISSING.
+
+
+ The air which thy smooth voice doth break,
+ Into my soul like lightning flies;
+ My life retires while thou dost speak,
+ And thy soft breath its room supplies.
+
+ Lost in this pleasing ecstasy,
+ I join my trembling lips to thine,
+ And back receive that life from thee
+ Which I so gladly did resign.
+
+ Forbear, Platonic fools! t' inquire
+ What numbers do the soul compose;
+ No harmony can life inspire
+ But that which from these accents flows.
+
+Thomas Stanley.
+
+
+
+
+LADIES' CONQUERING EYES.
+
+
+ Ladies, though to your conquering eyes
+ Love owes its chiefest victories,
+ And borrows those bright arms from you
+ With which he does the world subdue;
+ Yet you yourselves are not above
+ The empire nor the griefs of love.
+
+ Then rack not lovers with disdain,
+ Lest love on you revenge their pain:
+ You are not free because you're fair,
+ The Boy did not his mother spare:
+ Though beauty be a killing dart,
+ It is no armour for the heart.
+
+George Etherege.
+
+
+
+
+DORINDA.
+
+
+ Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes,
+ United, cast too fierce a light,
+ Which blazes high, but quickly dies,
+ Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight.
+
+ Love is a calmer, gentler joy,
+ Smooth are his looks and soft his pace;
+ Her Cupid is a blackguard boy
+ That runs his link full in your face.
+
+Charles Sackville.
+
+
+
+
+CELIA AND SYLVIA.
+
+
+ Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou,
+ I must confess art kind;
+ But in her cruelty, I vow,
+ I more repose can find.
+ For, oh! thy fancy at all games does fly,
+ Fond of address, and willing to comply.
+
+ Thus he that loves must be undone,
+ Each way on rocks we fall;
+ Either you will be kind to none,
+ Or worse, be kind to all.
+ Vain are our hopes, and endless is our care;
+ We must be jealous, or we must despair.
+
+Robert Gould.
+
+
+
+
+TRUE LOVE.
+
+
+ Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid
+ Of sighs, nor aches, to make it known,
+ And to convince the cruellest maid,
+ Lovers should use their love alone.
+
+ Into their very looks 'twill steal,
+ And he that most would hide his flame,
+ Does in that case his pain reveal:
+ Silence itself can love proclaim.
+
+Sir Charles Sedley.
+
+
+
+
+TOO LATE!
+
+
+ Too late, alas! I must confess,
+ You need not arts to move me;
+ Such charms by nature you possess,
+ 'Twere madness not to love ye.
+
+ Then spare a heart you may surprise,
+ And give my tongue the glory
+ To boast, though my unfaithful eyes
+ Betray a tender story.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+MY MISTRESS' HEART.
+
+
+ My dear mistress has a heart
+ Soft as those kind looks she gave me;
+ When with Love's resistless art,
+ And her eyes, she did enslave me.
+ But her constancy's so weak,
+ She's so wild and apt to wander;
+ That my jealous heart would break
+ Should we live one day asunder.
+
+ Melting joys about her move,
+ Killing pleasures, wounding blisses;
+ She can dress her eyes in love,
+ And her lips can arm with kisses.
+ Angels listen when she speaks,
+ She's my delight, all mankind wonder;
+ But my jealous heart would break
+ Should we live one day asunder.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+CONSTANCY.
+
+
+ I cannot change, as others do,
+ Though you unjustly scorn;
+ Since the poor swain that sighs for you,
+ For you alone was born.
+ No, Phillis, no, your heart to move
+ A surer way I'll try;
+ And to revenge my slighted love,
+ Will still love on and die.
+
+ When, killed with grief, Amyntas lies,
+ And you to mind shall call
+ The sighs that now unpitied rise,
+ The tears that vainly fall;
+ That welcome hour that ends his smart,
+ Will then begin your pain;
+ For such a faithful tender heart
+ Can never break in vain.
+
+John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
+
+
+
+
+MAN AND WOMAN.
+
+
+ Man is for woman made,
+ And woman made for man;
+ As the spur is for the jade,
+ As the scabbard for the blade,
+ As for liquor is the can,
+ So man's for woman made,
+ And woman made for man.
+
+ As the sceptre to be sway'd,
+ As to night the serenade,
+ As for pudding is the pan,
+ As to cool us is the fan,
+ So man's for woman made,
+ And woman made for man.
+
+Peter Antony Motteux.
+
+
+
+
+ACCEPT MY HEART.
+
+
+ Accept, my love, as true a heart
+ As ever lover gave:
+ 'Tis free, it vows, from any art,
+ And proud to be your slave.
+
+ Then take it kindly, as 'twas meant,
+ And let the giver live,
+ Who, with it, would the world have sent
+ Had it been his to give.
+
+ And, that Dorinda may not fear
+ I e'er will prove untrue,
+ My vow shall, ending with the year,
+ With it begin anew.
+
+Matthew Prior.
+
+
+
+
+AN ANGELIC WOMAN.
+
+
+ Not an angel dwells above
+ Half so fair as her I love.
+ Heaven knows how she'll receive me:
+ If she smiles I'm blest indeed;
+ If she frowns I'm quickly freed;
+ Heaven knows she ne'er can grieve me.
+
+ None can love her more than I,
+ Yet she ne'er shall make me die,
+ If my flame can never warm her:
+ Lasting beauty I'll adore,
+ I shall never love her more,
+ Cruelty will so deform her.
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh.
+
+
+
+
+I SMILE AT LOVE.
+
+
+ I smile at Love, and all its arts,
+ The charming Cynthia cried:
+ Take heed, for Love has piercing darts,
+ A wounded swain replied.
+ Once free and blest as you are now,
+ I trifled with his charms,
+ I pointed at his little bow,
+ And sported with his arms,
+ Till urged too far, Revenge! he cries,
+ A fatal shaft he drew,
+ It took its passage through your eyes,
+ And to my heart it flew.
+
+ To tear it thence I tried in vain;
+ To strive, I quickly found
+ Was only to increase the pain,
+ And to enlarge the wound.
+ Ah! much too well, I fear, you know
+ What pain I'm to endure,
+ Since what your eyes alone can do
+ Your heart alone can cure.
+ And that (grant Heaven, I may mistake!)
+ I doubt is doom'd to bear
+ A burden for another's sake,
+ Who ill rewards its care.
+
+Sir John Vanbrugh.
+
+
+
+
+ADIEU L'AMOUR.
+
+
+ Here end my chains, and thraldom cease,
+ If not in joy, I'll live at least in peace;
+ Since for the pleasures of an hour,
+ We must endure an age of pain;
+ I'll be this abject thing no more,
+ Love, give me back my heart again.
+
+ Despair tormented first my breast,
+ Now falsehood, a more cruel guest;
+ O! for the peace of human kind,
+ Make women longer true, or sooner kind:
+ With justice, or with mercy reign,
+ O Love! or give me back my heart again.
+
+George Granville.
+
+
+
+
+SABINA WAKES.
+
+
+ See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes!
+ And now the sun begins to rise;
+ Less glorious is the morn that breaks
+ From his bright beams, than her fair eyes.
+
+ With light united, day they give,
+ But different fates ere night fulfil;
+ How many by his warmth will live!
+ How many will her coldness kill!
+
+William Congreve.
+
+
+
+
+FALSE! OR INCONSTANCY.
+
+
+ False though she be to me and love,
+ I'll ne'er pursue revenge;
+ For still the charmer I approve,
+ Though I deplore her change.
+
+ In hours of bliss we oft have met,
+ They could not always last;
+ And though the present I regret,
+ I'm grateful for the past.
+
+William Congreve.
+
+
+
+
+LOVE AND HATE.
+
+
+ Why we love, and why we hate,
+ Is not granted us to know:
+ Random chance, or wilful fate,
+ Guides the shaft from Cupid's bow.
+
+ If on me Zelinda frown,
+ Madness 'tis in me to grieve:
+ Since her will is not her own,
+ Why should I uneasy live?
+
+ If I for Zelinda die,
+ Deaf to poor Mizella's cries,
+ Ask not me the reason why:
+ Seek the riddle in the skies.
+
+Ambrose Philips.
+
+
+
+
+I LATELY VOWED.
+
+
+ I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste,
+ That I no more would court
+ The joys that seem when they are past
+ As dull as they are short.
+
+ I oft to hate my mistress swear,
+ But soon my weakness find;
+ I make my oaths when she's severe,
+ But break them when she's kind.
+
+John Oldmixon.
+
+
+
+
+FEW HAPPY MATCHES.
+
+
+ Say, mighty Love, and teach my song
+ To whom thy sweetest joys belong,
+ And who the happy pairs
+ Whose yielding hearts, and joining hands,
+ Find blessings twisted with their bands
+ To soften all their cares.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Two kindest souls alone must meet,
+ 'Tis friendship makes the bondage sweet,
+ And feeds their mutual loves:
+ Bright Venus on her rolling throne
+ Is drawn by gentlest birds alone,
+ And Cupids yoke the doves.
+
+Dr. Isaac Watts.
+
+
+
+
+DORINDA'S CONQUEST.
+
+
+ Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought
+ The God of Love her charms to view;
+ To wound th' unwary maid he thought,
+ But soon became her conquest too.
+
+ He dropp'd half-drawn his feeble bow,
+ He look'd, he raved, and sighing pined;
+ And wish'd in vain he had been now,
+ As painters falsely draw him, blind.
+
+ Disarm'd, he to his mother flies;
+ Help, Venus, help thy wretched son!
+ Who now will pay us sacrifice?
+ For Love himself's, alas! undone.
+
+ To Cupid now no lover's prayer
+ Shall be address'd in suppliant sighs;
+ My darts are gone, but, oh! beware,
+ Fond mortals, of Dorinda's eyes!
+
+John Hughes.
+
+
+
+
+LOVERS IN DISGUISE.
+
+
+ How bless'd are lovers in disguise!
+ Like gods, they see,
+ As I do thee,
+ Unseen by human eyes.
+ Exposed to view,
+ I'm hid from view,
+ I'm altered, yet the same:
+ The dark conceals me,
+ Love reveals me:
+ Love, which lights me by its flame.
+
+ Were you not false, you would me know;
+ For though your eyes
+ Could not devise,
+ Your heart had told you so.
+ Your heart would beat
+ With eager heat,
+ And me by sympathy would find:
+ True love might see,
+ One changed like me,
+ False love is only blind.
+
+George Farquhar.
+
+
+
+
+WHEN THY BEAUTY APPEARS.
+
+
+ When thy beauty appears
+ In its graces and airs,
+ All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky;
+ At a distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears,
+ So strangely you dazzle my eye!
+
+ But then, without art,
+ Your kind thought you impart,
+ When your love runs in blushes through every vein;
+ When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,
+ Then I know you're a woman again.
+
+ There's a passion and pride
+ In our sex, she replied,
+ And thus, might I gratify both, would I do:
+ Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
+ But still be a woman to you.
+
+Thomas Parnell.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
+
+
+Accept, my love, as true a heart. 124.
+
+Ah! I remember well (and how can I. 48.
+
+Ah! my sweet sweeting! 5.
+
+Amarantha, sweet and fair. 112.
+
+Amid my bale I bathe in bliss. 14.
+
+Amyntas, go! Thou art undone. 100.
+
+And wilt thou leave me thus? 2.
+
+Away with these self-loving lads. 24.
+
+
+Celia is cruel. Sylvia, thou. 118.
+
+Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry. 91.
+
+Come live with me, and be my love. 50.
+
+Cupid and my Campaspe played. 26.
+
+
+Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again. 95.
+
+Diaphenia, like the daffa-down-dilly. 46.
+
+Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes. 117.
+
+Drink to me only with thine eyes. 74.
+
+Dry those fair, those crystal eyes. 94.
+
+
+Fain would I change that note. 102.
+
+False though she be to me and love. 129.
+
+Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought. 133.
+
+Farewell! my joy. 96.
+
+Faustina hath the fairest face. 66.
+
+Foolish love is only folly. 41.
+
+
+Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. 92.
+
+Go, lovely Rose. 98.
+
+
+Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 56.
+
+He that loves a rosy cheek. 88.
+
+He that loves and fears to try. 30.
+
+Help me to seek! For I lost it there. 1.
+
+Here end my chains, and thraldom cease, 127.
+
+How bless'd are lovers in disguise! 134.
+
+How long shall I pine for love? 81.
+
+
+I cannot change, as others do. 122.
+
+I dare not ask a kiss. 93.
+
+I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair. 67.
+
+I have a mistress, for perfections rare. 99.
+
+I lately vow'd, but 'twas in haste. 131.
+
+I lov'd thee once, I'll love no more. 69.
+
+I pr'ythee send me back my heart. 106.
+
+I smile at Love, and all its arts. 126.
+
+I wonder what those lovers mean, who say. 110.
+
+If all the world and Love were young. 22.
+
+If women could be fair, and yet not fond. 11.
+
+In a maiden-time profess'd. 71.
+
+In petticoat of green. 78.
+
+In the merry month of May. 35.
+
+It is not Beauty I demand. 59.
+
+It was a beauty that I saw. 73.
+
+
+Ladies, though to your conquering eyes. 116.
+
+Like to Diana in her summer weed. 39.
+
+Like to the clear in highest sphere. 32.
+
+Look, Delia, how we esteem the half-blown rose. 47.
+
+Love guards the roses of thy lips. 31.
+
+Love is a sickness full of woes. 49.
+
+Love me little, love me long. 101.
+
+Love me not for comely grace. 61.
+
+Love mistress is of many minds. 43.
+
+Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought. 3.
+
+Love, when 'tis true, needs not the aid. 119.
+
+
+Man is for woman made. 123.
+
+My dear mistress has a heart. 121.
+
+My girl, thou gazest much. 6.
+
+My Phyllis hath the morning sun. 16.
+
+My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. 27.
+
+
+Naked Love did to thine eye. 111.
+
+Not an angel dwells above. 125.
+
+Now fie on foolish love, it not befits. 82.
+
+Now thou hast loved me one whole day. 75.
+
+
+O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed! 17.
+
+O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm. 77.
+
+Oh, what a plague is love! 64.
+
+Once I loved a maiden fair. 105.
+
+Over the mountains. 62.
+
+
+Phylida was a fair maid. 12.
+
+Pretty twinkling starry eyes. 42.
+
+
+Ring out your bells, let mourning shews be spread. 28.
+
+Rise, Lady Mistress! rise! 89.
+
+
+Say, mighty Love, and teach my song. 132.
+
+See, see, she wakes! Sabina wakes! 128.
+
+Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green. 4.
+
+Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee. 37.
+
+Shall I like a hermit dwell. 18.
+
+Shall I, wasting in despair. 85.
+
+Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell! 20.
+
+Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. 55.
+
+Since first I saw your face I resolved. 108.
+
+Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. 53.
+
+Some asked me where the rubies grew. 90.
+
+Sweetest love, I do not go. 76.
+
+
+Take, O, take those lips away. 79.
+
+Tell me, dearest, what is love? 80.
+
+The air which thy smooth voice doth break. 115.
+
+The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest. 97.
+
+There is a garden in her face. 38.
+
+Thou pretty bird, how do I see. 104.
+
+'Tis true I never was in love. 114.
+
+Too late, alas! I must confess. 120.
+
+Tune on my pipe the praises of my love. 83.
+
+Two lines shall teach you how. 8.
+
+Two lines shall tell the grief. 7.
+
+
+Weep eyes, break heart! 72.
+
+Were I as base as is the lowly plain. 52.
+
+What shepherd can express. 9.
+
+When love, with unconfined wings. 113.
+
+When thy beauty appears. 135.
+
+Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose! 45.
+
+While that the sun with his beams hot. 57.
+
+Who is Sylvia? What is she. 54.
+
+Why so pale and wan, fond lover? 107.
+
+Why we love, and why we hate. 130.
+
+With fragrant flowers we strew the way. 34.
+
+Wonder not, though I am blind. 87.
+
+
+Ye blushing Virgins happy are. 103.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF AUTHORS.
+
+
+Alexander, W., Earl of Stirling. 77.
+
+Anonymous. 5, 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 101, 105.
+
+Aytoun, Sir Robert. 67.
+
+
+Beaumont, Francis. 80.
+
+Beaumont and Fletcher. 79.
+
+Breton, Richard. 35.
+
+Brome, Alexander. 114.
+
+Brooke, Lord. 24.
+
+
+Campion, Thomas. 37.
+
+Carew, Thomas. 87.
+
+Congreve, William. 128.
+
+Constable, Henry. 46.
+
+Cowley, Abraham, 110.
+
+
+Daniel, John. 104.
+
+Daniel, Samuel. 47.
+
+Davenant, Sir William. 97.
+
+Donne, Dr. John. 75.
+
+Dowland, John. 95.
+
+Drayton, Michael. 53.
+
+Drummond, William. 78.
+
+Dyer, Sir Edward. 16.
+
+
+Etherege, Sir George. 116.
+
+
+Farquhar, George. 134.
+
+Field, Nathaniel. 89.
+
+Fletcher, _see_ Beaumont and F.
+
+
+Gascoigne, George. 14.
+
+Googe, Barnaby. 12.
+
+Gould, Robert. 118.
+
+Granville, George. 127.
+
+Greene, Robert. 39.
+
+Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke. 24.
+
+
+Habington, William. 103.
+
+Harrington, Sir John. 45.
+
+Herrick, Robert. 90.
+
+Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. 3.
+
+Hughes, John. 133.
+
+Hume, Capt. Tobias. 102.
+
+
+Jonson, Ben. 73.
+
+
+King, Bp. Henry. 94.
+
+
+Lodge, Thomas. 31.
+
+Lovelace, Richard. 112.
+
+Lyly, John. 26.
+
+
+Marlowe, Christopher. 50.
+
+Middleton, Thomas. 71.
+
+Motteux, Peter Anthony. 123.
+
+
+Oldmixon, John. 131.
+
+Oxford, Earl of. 9.
+
+
+Parnell, Thomas. 135.
+
+Peele, George. 17.
+
+Philips, Ambrose. 130.
+
+Prior, Matthew. 124.
+
+
+Raleigh, Sir Walter. 18.
+
+Randolph, Thomas, 99.
+
+Rochester, Earl of. 120.
+
+
+Sackville, Charles, Earl of Dorset. 117.
+
+Sedley, Sir Charles, 119.
+
+Shakespeare, William. 54.
+
+Sherburne, Sir Edmund. 111.
+
+Sidney, Sir Philip. 27.
+
+Southwell, Robert. 43.
+
+Stanley, Thomas. 115.
+
+Stirling, Earl of. 77.
+
+Suckling, Sir John. 106.
+
+Surrey, Earl of. 3.
+
+Sylvester, J. 52.
+
+
+Turberville, George. 6.
+
+
+Vanbrugh, Sir John. 125.
+
+Vaughan, Henry. 100.
+
+Vere, E., Earl of Oxford, 9.
+
+
+Waller, Edmund. 98.
+
+Watson, Thomas. 34.
+
+Watts, Dr. Isaac. 132.
+
+Weelkes, Thomas. 96.
+
+Wilmot, John. 120.
+
+Wither, George. 85.
+
+Wootton, John. 83.
+
+Wyatt, Sir Thomas. 1.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co.
+Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tudor and Stuart Love Songs, by Various
+
+*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUDOR AND STUART LOVE SONGS ***
+
+***** This file should be named 26398.txt or 26398.zip *****
+This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
+ https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/9/26398/
+
+Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
+will be renamed.
+
+Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
+one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
+(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
+permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
+set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
+copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
+protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
+Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
+charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
+do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
+rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
+such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
+research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
+practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
+subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
+redistribution.
+
+
+
+*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
+
+THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
+PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
+
+To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
+distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
+(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at
+https://gutenberg.org/license).
+
+
+Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic works
+
+1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to
+and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
+(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all
+the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
+all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession.
+If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
+terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
+entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.
+
+1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be
+used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who
+agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few
+things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
+even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See
+paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
+and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works. See paragraph 1.E below.
+
+1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
+or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the
+collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an
+individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
+located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
+copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
+works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
+are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project
+Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by
+freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of
+this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with
+the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
+keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
+
+1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern
+what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in
+a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check
+the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement
+before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or
+creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
+Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning
+the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
+States.
+
+1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg:
+
+1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate
+access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently
+whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the
+phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed,
+copied or distributed:
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
+from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
+posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
+and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
+or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
+with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
+work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1
+through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
+Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or
+1.E.9.
+
+1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
+with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
+must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional
+terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked
+to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
+permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
+
+1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
+work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
+
+1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
+electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
+prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with
+active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm License.
+
+1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
+compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
+word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or
+distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
+"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version
+posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org),
+you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
+copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
+request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
+form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1.
+
+1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
+performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
+unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.
+
+1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing
+access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided
+that
+
+- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from
+ the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method
+ you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is
+ owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
+ has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
+ Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments
+ must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
+ prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
+ returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
+ sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
+ address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
+ the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation."
+
+- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies
+ you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he
+ does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+ License. You must require such a user to return or
+ destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
+ and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
+ Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any
+ money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
+ electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
+ of receipt of the work.
+
+- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
+ distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
+forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
+both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
+Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the
+Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below.
+
+1.F.
+
+1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
+effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
+public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
+collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
+"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
+corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
+property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
+computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
+your equipment.
+
+1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
+of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
+liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
+fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
+LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
+PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
+TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
+LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
+INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
+DAMAGE.
+
+1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
+defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
+receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
+written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you
+received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with
+your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with
+the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
+refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
+providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
+receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy
+is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further
+opportunities to fix the problem.
+
+1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
+in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
+WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
+
+1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
+warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
+If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
+law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
+interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
+the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
+provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
+
+1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the
+trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone
+providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance
+with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production,
+promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works,
+harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
+that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do
+or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm
+work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any
+Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause.
+
+
+Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
+electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
+including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists
+because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
+people in all walks of life.
+
+Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
+assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
+goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
+remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
+and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
+To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
+and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
+and the Foundation web page at https://www.pglaf.org.
+
+
+Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
+Foundation
+
+The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
+501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
+state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
+Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification
+number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at
+https://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
+permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws.
+
+The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S.
+Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered
+throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at
+809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
+business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact
+information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official
+page at https://pglaf.org
+
+For additional contact information:
+ Dr. Gregory B. Newby
+ Chief Executive and Director
+ gbnewby@pglaf.org
+
+
+Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
+spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
+increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
+freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest
+array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations
+($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt
+status with the IRS.
+
+The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
+charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
+States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
+considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
+with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations
+where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To
+SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
+particular state visit https://pglaf.org
+
+While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
+have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
+against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
+approach us with offers to donate.
+
+International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
+any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
+outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
+
+Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation
+methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other
+ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
+donations. To donate, please visit: https://pglaf.org/donate
+
+
+Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works.
+
+Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
+concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
+with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
+Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
+
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
+editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S.
+unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily
+keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.
+
+
+Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility:
+
+ https://www.gutenberg.org
+
+This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm,
+including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary
+Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to
+subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.
diff --git a/26398.zip b/26398.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5856206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26398.zip
Binary files differ
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6312041
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements,
+metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be
+in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+Procedures for determining public domain status are described in
+the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org.
+
+No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in
+jurisdictions other than the United States. Anyone seeking to utilize
+this eBook outside of the United States should confirm copyright
+status under the laws that apply to them.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ffb210
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) public repository for
+eBook #26398 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26398)