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Another of the same, by Firmius the Sheepheard.
If that the gentle winde
dooth mooue the leaues with pleasant sound,
If that the Kid behind
Is left, that cannot find
her dam, runnes bleating vp and downe:
The Bagpipe, Reede, or Flute,
onely with ayre if that they touched be,
With pitty all salute,
And full of loue doo brute
thy name, and sound Diana, seeing thee:
A faire Mayde wed to prying Iealousie.
dooth mooue the leaues with pleasant sound,
If that the Kid behind
Is left, that cannot find
her dam, runnes bleating vp and downe:
The Bagpipe, Reede, or Flute,
onely with ayre if that they touched be,
With pitty all salute,
And full of loue doo brute
thy name, and sound Diana, seeing thee:
A faire Mayde wed to prying Iealousie.
The fierce and sauage beasts
(beyond their kind and nature yet)
With pitteous voyce and brest,
In mountaines without rest
the selfe same Song doo not forget.
If that they stay'd at (Faire)
and had not passed to prying Iealousie:
With plaints of such despaire
As moou'd the gentle ayre
to teares: The Song that they did sing, should be
One of the fayrest as euer I did see.
(beyond their kind and nature yet)
With pitteous voyce and brest,
In mountaines without rest
the selfe same Song doo not forget.
and had not passed to prying Iealousie:
With plaints of such despaire
As moou'd the gentle ayre
to teares: The Song that they did sing, should be
One of the fayrest as euer I did see.
Mishap, and fortunes play,
ill did they place in Beauties brest:
For since so much to say,
There was of beauties sway,
they had done well to leaue the rest.
They had enough to doo,
if in her praise their wits they did awake:
But yet so must they too,
And all thy loue that woo,
thee not too coy, nor too too proude to make,
If that thou wilt a secret Louer take.
ill did they place in Beauties brest:
For since so much to say,
There was of beauties sway,
they had done well to leaue the rest.
They had enough to doo,
if in her praise their wits they did awake:
But yet so must they too,
And all thy loue that woo,
thee not too coy, nor too too proude to make,
If that thou wilt a secret Louer take.
For if thou hadst but knowne
the beauty, that they heere doo touch,
Thou woul'dst then loue alone
Thy selfe, not any one,
onely thy selfe accounting much
But if thou doo'st conceaue
this beauty, that I will not publique make,
And mean'st not to bereaue
The world of it, but leaue
the same to some (which neuer peere did take,)
(Sweet life) doo not my secret loue forsake.
the beauty, that they heere doo touch,
Thou woul'dst then loue alone
Thy selfe, not any one,
onely thy selfe accounting much
But if thou doo'st conceaue
this beauty, that I will not publique make,
And mean'st not to bereaue
The world of it, but leaue
the same to some (which neuer peere did take,)
(Sweet life) doo not my secret loue forsake.
FINIS.
Bar. Yong.
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