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ODE 2.
[Speake Eccho tell]
Speake Eccho tell;
With Lillyes, Columbines, and Roses,
What their Parthenophe, composes? Eccho, poses
Oh sacred smell!
For those (which in her lappe she closes)
The goddes please well.
With Lillyes, Columbines, and Roses,
What their Parthenophe, composes? Eccho, poses
Oh sacred smell!
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The goddes please well.
Speake Eccho tell:
With Daffadilles what doth she plette,
Which in such order she doth sette
For loue to dwell:
As she should Floraes Chappell let? Eccho, Chapplet
This loue likes well.
With Daffadilles what doth she plette,
Which in such order she doth sette
For loue to dwell:
As she should Floraes Chappell let? Eccho, Chapplet
This loue likes well.
Speake Eccho tell:
Why Lillyes, and red Roses like her? Eccho, like her.
No pittie with remorse will strike her,
Did nature well?
Which did from fairest graces pike her
To be mine hell:
Why Lillyes, and red Roses like her? Eccho, like her.
No pittie with remorse will strike her,
Did nature well?
Which did from fairest graces pike her
To be mine hell:
Speake Eccho tell:
Why Columbynes she entertaines?
Because the prouerbe (watchet) faines
True loues like well?
And do these therfore like her vaines? Ecch her vaines
There Cupid's dwell.
Why Columbynes she entertaines?
Because the prouerbe (watchet) faines
True loues like well?
And do these therfore like her vaines? Ecch her vaines
There Cupid's dwell.
Speake Eccho tell:
Wherefore her Chaplets yellow were like,
When others here, were more her like? Eccho, hearelike:
Yet I know well,
Her hart is Tygre-like, or Beare-like:
To rockes it sell.
Wherefore her Chaplets yellow were like,
When others here, were more her like? Eccho, hearelike:
Yet I know well,
Her hart is Tygre-like, or Beare-like:
To rockes it sell.
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