Category: Poetry
Go, little Book! thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him that is the President Of Nobleness and Chivalry: And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee Under the shadow of his wing. And, asked who thee forth did bring, A shepheard's swain, s...
Go, little Book! thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him that is the President Of Nobleness and Chivalry: And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for su...
2. Part 2"You naked trees, whose shady leaves are lost, Wherein the birds were wont to build their bower, And now are cloth'd with moss and hoary frost, Instead of blossoms, wherewith yo...
3. Part 3"Pan may be proud that ever he begot Such a bellibone; And Syrinx rejoice, that ever was her lot To bear such an one. Soon as my younglings crying for the dam, To her will I off...
4. Part 4HOB. O! careful Colin, I lament thy case; Thy tears would make the hardest flint to flow! Ah! faithless Rosalind, and void of grace, That art the root of all this ruthful woe! B...
5. Part 5HOBBINOL. Diggon Davie! I bid her good-day; Or Diggon her is, or I missay. DIG. Her was her, while it was day-light, But now her is a most wretched wight: For day, that was, is...
6. Part 6"O thou great shepheard, Lobbin, how great is thy grief? Where be the nosegays that she dight for thee? The coloured chaplets wrought with a chief,[20] The knotted rush-rings, a...
7. Part 7Sale, _wicker net_. Sam, _together_. Sample, _example_. Saye, _silk_. Scope, _mark aimed at_. Seely, _simple_. Sheen, _bright_. Shend, _disgrace_. Shepheard, _Abel_, _p. 56_; _E...