Fearful, to perk him by the Eagle's side: The speedy post of Ganymede replied - The Fly craved pity; still the Eagle frown'd: Ready to die, Disgraced, displaced, fell groveling to the ground: And with a royal mind said to the Fly - I scorn by me the meanest creature die : SWEET CONTENT WEET are the thoughts that savour of content; SWEE The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown: The homely house that harbours quiet rest, MENAPHON'S SONG OME say SOME Foolish Love, Love, Doth rule and govern all the Gods : I say - Love, Inconstant Love, Sets men's senses far at odds. Some swear - Love, Smooth-faced Love, Is sweetest sweet that man can have : Sour Love, Makes Virtue yield as Beauty's slave : Love is sweet: Wherein sweet? In fading pleasures that do pain? Nowhere but where repentance grows. Labour for me! love rest in prince's bower! MICHAEL DRAYTON WHAT LOVE IS WHAT IS LOVE but the desire Of that thing the fancy pleaseth? A holy and resistless fire Weak and strong alike that seizeth: Which not Heaven hath power to let, Nor wise Nature can not smother; Whereby Phoebus doth beget On the Universal Mother: Which together all things tied, When the cunning hand doth strike, Whereas every amorous sound Sweetly marries with the like. The tender cattle scarcely take From their dams, the fields to prove, As Nature every thing doth pair- Doth dislike and will not bear. Nor let it remove from me! ROWLAND'S ROUNDELAY To whom Her Swain, unworthy though he were, ROWLAND CHORUS Of her pure eyes, that now is seen, Come, let us sing, ye faithful swains! ROWLANDO She alone the Shepherds' Queen, CHORUS Her flock that leads : The Goddess of these meads, These mountains, and these plains. ROWLAND Those eyes of hers that are more clear CHORUS―Than can poor shepherd's song express. ROWLAND-Than be his beams that rules the year : CHORUS — Fie on that praise In striving things to raise That doth but make them less! ROWLAND-That do the flowery Spring prolong, CHORUS So all things in her sight do joy, ROWLAND - And keep the plenteous Summer young, CHORUS And do assuage ROWLAND ROWLAND The wrathful Winter's rage That would our flocks annoy. Jove saw her breast that naked lay, And swore it was the Milky Way: CHORUS Of all most pure The path, we us assure, To his bright court to be. ROWLAND - He saw her tresses hanging down, CHORUS - That moved with the gentle air, ROWLAND - And said that Ariadne's Crown CHORUS - With those compared The Gods should not regard, Nor Berenice's Hair. ROWLAND When She hath watch'd my flocks by night, ROWLAND Amazed with her grace That did attend thy sheep. Above, where heaven's high glories are, CHORUS When She is placed in the skies, ROWLAND She shall be call'd the Shepherds' Star : CHORUS And evermore We shepherds will adore Her setting and her rise. |