PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.* In the merrie moneth of Maye, Where anon by a wood side, Much adoe there was, God wot; He sayde hee had lovde her longe : She sayes maids must kisse no men, Tyll they doe for good and all. Then with many a prettie othe, Yea, and naye, and faithe and trothe; Such as seelie shepperdes use When they will not love abuse; "The Honorable Entertainement given to the Queenes Majestie (Queen Elizabeth) in Progresse at Elvetham, in Hampshire, by the R. H. the Earle of Hertford, 1591: "The thirde daies Entertainement. "On Wednesday morning, about 9 o'clock, as her Majestie opened a casement of her gallerie window, ther were three excellent musitians, who, being disguised in auncient country attire, did greete her with a pleasant song of Corydon and Phillida, made in three parts, of purpose. The song, as well for the worth of the dittie, as the aptnesse of the note thereto applied, it pleased her Highnesse after it had been once sung, to command it againe, and highly to grace it with her cheerefull acceptaunce and commendation." Love that had bene long deluded N. BRETON SHEARING TIME. FROM THE FLEECE." If verdant elder spreads Her silver flowers; if humble daisies yield And plunge them one by one into the flood. His lifted head above the limpid stream, While the full, clammy fleece the other laves And then resigns him to the sunny bank, Where, bleating loud, he shakes his dripping locks. Now to the other hemisphere, my muse! Happy the voyage o'er the Atlantic brine, Opening her bays, and figuring her capes, Thither affliction, thither poverty, Who views those shores in every culture dressed; The comforts taught, and various new desires Of mulberries, and in whose watered fields Who, for your crimes, have fled your native land; Seek easy habitations, void of care: The sons of Nature with astonishment And detestation mark your evil deeds, And view, no longer aw'd, your nerveless arms, Unfit to cultivate Ohio's banks. See the bold emigrants of Acadie And Massachuset, happy in those arts |