More Lyrics from the Song-books of the Elizabethan Age

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Arthur Henry Bullen
J. C. Nimmo, 1888 - 164 страници

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Страница 145 - Yet if His Majesty our sovereign lord Should of his own accord Friendly himself invite, And say "I'll be your guest to-morrow night," How should we stir ourselves, call and command All hands to work! "Let no man idle stand. "Set me fine Spanish tables in the hall, See they be fitted all; Let there be room to eat, And order taken that there want no meat. See every sconce and candlestick made bright, That without tapers they may give a light. "Look to the presence: are the carpets spread, The dazie...
Страница 16 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Страница xiii - I'll be your guest to-morrow night,' How should we stir ourselves, call and command All hands to work ! ' Let no man idle stand. ' Set me fine Spanish tables in the hall, See they be fitted all ; Let there be room to eat, And order taken that there want no meat. See every sconce and candlestick made bright, That without tapers they may give a light. ' Look to the presence : are the carpets spread, The...
Страница 18 - Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of CERVANTES by JOHN G. LOCKHART. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and'Works of PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX by HENRI VAN LAUN.
Страница 136 - When to her lute Corinna sings, Her voice revives the leaden strings, And doth in highest notes appear As any challenged echo clear. But when she doth of mourning speak, E'en with her sighs the strings do break.
Страница 108 - THE sea hath many thousand sands, The sun hath motes as many; The sky is full of stars, and Love As full of woes as any : Believe me, that do know the elf, And make no trial by thyself. It is in truth a pretty toy For babes to play withal; But O ! the...
Страница 36 - FOLLOW thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. Though thou be black as night, And she made all of light, Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
Страница 37 - Though here thou liv'st disgraced, And she in heaven is placed, Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth ! Follow those pure beams, whose beauty burneth ! That so have scorched thee As thou still black must be, Till her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth. Follow her, while yet her glory shineth! There comes a luckless night That will dim all her light; And this the black unhappy shade divineth. Follow still, since so thy fates ordained ! The sun must have his shade, Till both at once...
Страница xiii - The dazie o'er the head, The cushions in the chairs, And all the candles lighted on the stairs? Perfume the chambers, and in any case Let each man give attendance in his place.
Страница 49 - But when we come where comfort is, She never will say

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