#English #XVICentury #XVIICentury
The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup; I’ll drink to the garlands around… But first unto those Whose hands did compose
IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed,
Please your Grace, from out your… Give an alms to one that’s poor, That your mickle may have more. Black I’m grown for want of meat, Give me then an ant to eat,
Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can… Speak grief in you, Who were but born just as the modest morn Teem’d her refreshing dew?
What conscience, say, is it in the… When I a heart had one, [won] To take away that heart from me, And to retain thy own? For shame or pity, now incline
Though frankincense the deities re… We must not give all to the hallow… Such be our gifts, and such be our… As for ourselves to leave some fra…
Rare is the voice itself: but whe… To th’ lute or viol, then ’tis rav…
When words we want, Love teacheth… And what we blush to speak, she bi…
Here we securely live, and eat The cream of meat; And keep eternal fires, By which we sit, and do divine, As wine
Love is a circle, that doth restle… In the same sweet eternity of Lov…
In man, ambition is the common’st… Each one by nature loves to be a k…
1 Among thy fancies, tell me this… What is the thing we call a kiss? 2 I shall resolve ye what it is:— It is a creature born and bred Between the lips, all cherry-red,
No man such rare parts hath, that… If favour or occasion help not him…
When I thy singing next shall hea… I’ll wish I might turn all to ear… To drink-in notes and numbers, suc… As blessed souls can’t hear too mu… Then melted down, there let me lie
Pardon my trespass, Silvia! I co… My kiss out-went the bounds of sha… None is discreet at all times; no,… Himself, at one time, can be wise…
