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PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.

From "The Theatre of Compliments, or New Academy. Lond. 1689." 12mo. It is mentioned by the milkwoman in Waltons Compleat Angler. Lond. 1653. 8vo." What Song was it, I pray? was it, Come Shepherds deck your heads: or, As at noon Dulcina rested: or, PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME?"-and is probably much older.

The answer is modern; by A. Bradley.

"Dulcina" is printed both by D'urfey and Percy.

herds, &c." is not known.

OH! what a plague is love!

I cannot bear it;

She will unconstant prove,

I greatly fear it ;

It so torments my mind,

That my heart faileth;
She wavers with the wind,

As a ship saileth :
Please her the best I may,
She loves still to gainsay;
Alack, and well-a-day!

Phillida flouts me.

At the fair, th' other day,
As she pass'd by me,
She look'd another way,

And would not spy me.

"Come Shep

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Fair maiden, have a care,
And in time take me;
I can have those as fair,
If you forsake me:
There's Dol, the dairy-maid,
Smil'd on me lately,

And wanton Winnifred

Favours me greatly:

One throws milk on my cloaths,
Th' other plays with my nose;

What pretty toys are those!
Phillida flouts me.

She has a cloth of mine,

Wrought with blue Coventry,
Which she keeps as a sign
Of my fidelity;

But if she frowns on me,

She ne'er shall wear it;

I'll give it my maid Joan,

And she shall tear it. Since 't will no better be, I'll bear it patiently;

Yet all the world may see

Phillida flouts me.

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XI.

A WORSHIPPER OF CRUELTY.

From a MS. in the Harleian library, No. 3511, written in the time of K. Charles the second.

You may use common shepherds so,

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My sighs, at last, to stormes will grow,
And blow such scornes upon your' pride
Will blast all I have deified:

You are not faire whe[n] love you lacke,
Ingratitude makes all things blacke!

Oh! doe not, for a flocke of sheepe,

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A golden shower when as you sleepe,'
Or for the tales 'Ambition' tells,

Forsake the house where Honour dwells!

In 'Damons' pallace you'le ne're shine
So bright as in that bower of mine.

[V. 8. sheepe.] [V. 9. albition.]

[V. 11. Daman's.]

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