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All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet

Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted

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[Now bright fac'd Sminthus, with faire Flora meets]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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[Now bright fac'd Sminthus, with faire Flora meets]

The 12. of May the Sunne enters into Gemini, or the Twinnes.

Gemini, May.
Now bright fac'd Sminthus, with faire Flora meets,
Adorning her with Natures best attire:
Trees, plants, hearbs, flowres, & odoriferous sweets,
With Birds all chaunting in their feathered quire.
Now countrie Tom and Tyb haue their desire,
And rowle and tumble freely on the grasse,
The Milke-maide gets a greene gowne for her hire,
And all in sport the time away doe passe,
The bird, the beast, the lusty lad, the lasse:
Doe sing, doe friske, doe clip, doe coll, doe kisse,
Not thinking how the time must be, or was,
But making pleasant vse of time as tis,
Till Sminthus leaues his lodging at the twinnes,
And to a hotter race his course beginnes.