Will you buy any tape (Shakespeare) PAGE 55 148 178 Ye little birds that sit and sing (Heywood) 145 89 34 182 REE LYRICS FROM THE DRAMATISTS. From JOHN LYLY'S Alexander and Campaspe, 1584.1 CARDS AND KISSES. CUPID and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses-Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, 1 Lyly's songs are not found in the original editions of his plays. They first appeared in the collective edition of 1632. B 1 " WHAT bird so sings, yet so does wail? O'tis the ravished nightingale. “Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu," she cries, 'Harmony written or pricked down in opposition to plainsong, where the descant rested with the will of the singer."Chappell. (The nightingale's song, being full of rich variety, is often termed prick-song by old writers. So they speak of the cuckoo's plain-song.) 2 Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings." Cymbeline, iii. 2. From JOHN LYLY's Sappho and O CRUEL LOVE! CRUEL Love, on thee I lay My curse, which shall strike blind the day; Never may sleep with velvet hand Charm thine eyes with sacred wand; Thy jailors shall be hopes and fears, Thy prison-mates groans, sighs, and tears, The bed thou liest on be1 despair, Thy sleep fond dreams, thy dreams long care. Mock' thee till madness strike thee dead, 1 Old ed. "by." 2 Old ed. "mockes." MY VULCAN'S SONG. Y shag-hair Cyclops, come, let's ply By my wife's sparrows, I swear these arrows Shall singing fly Through many a wanton's eye. These headed are with golden blisses, Strikes a clown dead, He falls in a trance, To see his black-brow lass not buss him, |