I REVEILLEZ 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, II FANCY TELL me where is Fancy bred, 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 :- III SILVIA WHO is Silvia? what is She 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. IV YOUTH AND LOVE Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true-love's coming That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is Love? 'tis not hereafter; In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and-twenty Youth's a stuff will not endure. V IT VER ET VENUS T was a Lover and his Lass, IT With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring. Between the acres of the rye These pretty country folks would lie. This carol they began that hour, How that a life was but a flower : And therefore take the present time, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring. |