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Poems in The passionate pilgrime by W. Shakespeare

Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627)

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[If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree]
 
[My flocks feede not, my Ewes breed not]

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[My flocks feede not, my Ewes breed not]

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

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This poem was previously attributed to Barnfield but is no longer believed to be by him.

My flocks feede not, my Ewes breed not,
My Rams speed not, all is amis:
Loue is dying, Faithes defying,
Harts nenying, causer of this,
All my merry Iigges are quite forgot,
All my Ladies loue is lost (god wot)
Where her faith was firmely fixt in loue,
There a nay is plac't without remoue.
One silly crosse, wrought all my losse,
O frowning fortune cursed fickle dame,
For now I see, inconstancy,
More in wowen then in men remaine.
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