SYRINX. AN'S Syrinx was a girl indeed, PAN'S Though now she's turned into a reed ; From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come, A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb; S SONG TO APOLLO. ING to Apollo, god of day, Whose golden beams with morning play, And make her eyes so brightly shine, Aurora's face is called divine; Sing to Phoebus and that throne To Physic's and to Poesy's king! Crown all his altars with bright fire, To the glittering Delian king! Omnes. I. From JOHN LYLY'S Mother IO, BACCHUS ! O, Bacchus! To thy table 1% Thou call'st every drunken rabble; Then seal us for thy jolly skinkers.1 O juice divine, How dost thou the nowle2 refine! With sparkling carbuncle. I. Now lion-like to roar, 1 Drawers, tapsters. 2 Head, wits. 12 JOHN LYLY. LOVE'S COLLEGE. CUPID! monarch over kings, It is to show how swift thou art, When thou woundest a tender heart! It is all one in Venus' wanton school, Have far more knowledge To read a woman over, Than a neat prating lover : Nay, 'tis confessed, That fools please women best. Arraignment of Paris, 1584. FAIR AND FAIR, AND TWICE SO FAIR. Enone. Paris. En. FAIR AIR and fair, and twice so fair, The fairest shepherd on our green, Fair and fair and twice so fair, As fair as any may be ; Thy love is fair for thee alone, My love is fair, my love is gay, My merry, merry, merry roundelay, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods they change for worse! Ambo simul. They that do change, &c. En. My love can pipe, my love can sing, Amen to Cupid's curse, Par. Ambo. Fair and fair, &c. |