Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan AgeArthur Henry Bullen |
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... thou monarch of the vine , ” ) and that softest of invocations to " Care - charming Sleep . " Massinger , an admirable dramatist , had little lyrical power - in fact , none at all - for his few at- tempts at a song are flat and insipid ...
... thou monarch of the vine , ” ) and that softest of invocations to " Care - charming Sleep . " Massinger , an admirable dramatist , had little lyrical power - in fact , none at all - for his few at- tempts at a song are flat and insipid ...
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... thou monarch of the vine ( Shakespeare ) • 53 Come unto these yellow sands ( Shakespeare ) . 55 Come , you whose loves are dead ( Beaumont and Fletcher ) 91 Comforts lasting , loves increasing ( John Ford ) . 144 Cupid all his arts did ...
... thou monarch of the vine ( Shakespeare ) • 53 Come unto these yellow sands ( Shakespeare ) . 55 Come , you whose loves are dead ( Beaumont and Fletcher ) 91 Comforts lasting , loves increasing ( John Ford ) . 144 Cupid all his arts did ...
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... thou shalt lie ( John Fletcher ) God Lyaus , ever young ( John Fletcher ) Golden slumbers kiss your eyes ( Dekker ) Hail , beauteous Dian , queen of shades ( Heywood ) . Happy times we live to see ( Middleton and Rowley ) Hark ! hark ...
... thou shalt lie ( John Fletcher ) God Lyaus , ever young ( John Fletcher ) Golden slumbers kiss your eyes ( Dekker ) Hail , beauteous Dian , queen of shades ( Heywood ) . Happy times we live to see ( Middleton and Rowley ) Hark ! hark ...
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... thou dwell ? ( Samuel Rowley ? ) O stay , O turn , O pity me ( William Rowley ) O that joy so soon should waste ( Ben Jonson ) . O the month of May , the merry month of May ( Dekker ) O'er the smooth enamelled green ( Milton ) . 4I 174 ...
... thou dwell ? ( Samuel Rowley ? ) O stay , O turn , O pity me ( William Rowley ) O that joy so soon should waste ( Ben Jonson ) . O the month of May , the merry month of May ( Dekker ) O'er the smooth enamelled green ( Milton ) . 4I 174 ...
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... Thou deity , swift - winged Love ( John Fletcher ) Thou divinest , fairest , brightest ( John Fletcher ) Thou more than most sweet glove ( Ben Jonson ) . Though I am young and cannot tell ( Ben Jonson ) Though little be the god of love ...
... Thou deity , swift - winged Love ( John Fletcher ) Thou divinest , fairest , brightest ( John Fletcher ) Thou more than most sweet glove ( Ben Jonson ) . Though I am young and cannot tell ( Ben Jonson ) Though little be the god of love ...
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Apollo arrows beauty Ben Jonson birds bless bright Careless Shepherdess charm Chorus cold crown Cuckoo Cupid dance dead death delight ding dong doth drink eyes fair fairy fear fire flowers fool Gipsy give golden grave green grow Hark haste hath head heart heaven heaven's gate Hecate heigh Hesperus hither holiday holy honour Hymen JAMES SHIRLEY'S JOHN FLETCHER'S JONSON'S keep king kiss lady lips live Love's lovers lusty Lyly's lyrical maid Maid's Tragedy Masque Melampus merrily merry MISTRESS mortal ne'er never Nice Valour night nonny Nymph o'er play praise pretty queen Richard Brome Robin Hood rose satyrs shepherds shine sigh sing sleep songs sorrow soul spring stay Strow sweet tears thee Thetis thing THOMAS THOMAS MIDDLETON thou art unto Venus virgin wanton weep Whilst William Rowley wind Witch youth
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Page 34 - Philomel with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby. Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby. Never harm Nor spell nor charm Come our lovely lady nigh. So good night, with lullaby.
Page 44 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen. Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then, heigh ho! the holly! This life is most jolly.
Page 217 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance; Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have. Listen and save!
Page 52 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 31 - When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 142 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Page 56 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 69 - Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth! Do but look on her hair, it is bright As love's star when it riseth! Do but mark, her...
Page 47 - In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding. Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 43 - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE' UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...