The Arbor of Amitie wherin is comprised pleasant Pohems and pretie Poesies, set foorth by Thomas Howell |
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Iacke showes his qualities and great good will to Ione.
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Iacke showes his qualities and great good will to Ione.
Mine owne zweet Ione, let me not mone,no more I thee require:
But as I craue, so let me haue,
the thing I doe desire.
And ich shall still, euen at thy will,
be readie at thy hande:
To fling to spring and runne at ring,
whilst ich am able stande.
With cap and knee, ich will serue thee,
what should ich more declare:
Thy minde to please, and bodie ease,
is onely all my care.
Though icham not, zo zeemlie chwot,
as bene the Courtnoles gay:
Yet chaue a flaile, that will not faile,
to thrashe both night and day.
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vor all our Towne can zay:
How stout ich stood, with Robart Whood,
when Baldoone Uoke vetcht may.
And eke ich pas, both more and las,
in dauncing Dountoones rounde:
To trip to skip and handle a whip,
cham zure my peers not vound.
To cloute a shooe, ich ma tell you,
veowe cunnigare there bee:
And eke to theatch, whare can ye veatch,
another like to mee.
In husbandry, icham truely,
ycounted to excell:
Yee and ich can, if neede be than,
waight at the table well.
For once ich went, vp into Kent,
with the headman of our Towne:
Where ich did waite, at euerye baite,
thee vore tha cham no clowne.
Why for my manner, ich beare the banner,
before my Lorde of May:
No Countrie man, there is that can,
teach me tho I doe zay.
And further more, thou knowest gay store
of good will fall to mee:
Uor vather zed, when he is dead,
that all mine owne shall bee.
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that viftene Pigges did varro:
Euen at one tyme shall then be mine,
and eke our newe wheelbarro.
Beside all this, ich shall not mis
of red ones to haue store:
That zawe no zunne, nor yet the moone,
of yeres cham zewer a score.
And all my Ione, shalt thou alone,
at thy commaundment haue:
If thou wilt let, me friscoles vet,
in place where ich doe craue.
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