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HARK, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise,

His steeds to water at those springs

On chaliced flowers that lies;

And winking mary-buds begin

To ope their golden eyes :

With every thing that pretty_is,
My Lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise!

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II

FANCY

ELL me where is Fancy bred,

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Or in the heart or in the head?

How begot, how nourished?

-Reply, reply.

It is engender'd in the eyes,

With gazing fed; and Fancy dies

In the cradle where it lies.

Let us all ring Fancy's knell :

I'll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell :-
Ding, dong, bell.

III

SILVIA

HO is Silvia? what is She

WHO

That all our swains commend her?

Holy, fair and wise is she;

The heaven 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 help'd, 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.

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