The wintry blast was fierce and co… And the lassie’s coat was thin and… Her little brother by her side Shivered and pitifully cried. ‘Come underneath my coat,’ said sh…

O WHAT a plague is love!    How shall I bear it? She will inconstant prove,    I greatly fear it. She so torments my mind

ON a time the amorous Silvy Said to her shepherd, 'Sweet, how… Kiss me this once and then God be…    My sweetest dear! Kiss me this once and then God be…

Phyllida. CORYDON, arise, my C…    Titan shineth clear. Corydon. Who is it that calleth C…    Who is it that I hear? Phyl. Phyllida, thy true love, ca…

HERE lies a poor woman who was a… She lived in a house where help wa… Her last words on earth were: 'De… To where there’s no cooking, or wa… For everything there is exact to m…

O HAPPY dames! that may embrace    The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the woful case    And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice

God and the soldier All men adore In time of trouble, And no more; For when war is over

SISTER, awake! close not your e…    The day her light discloses, And the bright morning doth arise    Out of her bed of roses. See the clear sun, the world’s bri…

BALOW, my babe, lie still and sl… It grieves me sore to see thee wee… Wouldst thou be quiet I’se be gla… Thy mourning makes my sorrow sad: Balow my boy, thy mother’s joy,

LATE at een, drinkin’ the wine,    And ere they paid the lawin’, They set a combat them between,    To fight it in the dawin’. ‘O stay at hame, my noble lord!

QUHEN Flora had o’erfret the fi…    In May of every moneth queen; Quhen merle and mavis singis with…    Sweet melling in the shawis she…    Quhen all luvaris rejoicit bene

“The wind doth blow today, my love… And a few small drops of rain; I never had but one true-love, In cold grave she was lain. ”I’ll do as much for my true-love

AS ye came from the holy land    Of Walsinghame, Met you not with my true love    By the way as you came? How should I know your true love,

He. BE it right or wrong, these m…    On women do complain; Affirming this, how that it is    A labour spent in vain To love them wele; for never a del…