Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.

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Title
Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.
Publication
London :: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for Richard More, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard,
1614.
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Pastoral poetry, English.
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"Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16274.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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¶Phillida and Coridon.

IN the merry month of May, In a morne by breake of day, Forth I walked by the Wood-side, When as May was in his pride: There I spied all alone, Phillida and Coridon. Much a-doo there was God wot, He would loue, and she would not. She said neuer man was true, He said, none was false to you. He said, he had lou'd her long, She said, Loue should haue no wrong. Coridon would kisse her then, She said, Maides must kisse no men, Till they did for good and all. Then she made the Shepheard call All the heauens to witnesse truth: Neuer lou'd a truer Youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troath,

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Such as silly Shepheards vse, When they will not Loue abuse; Loue, which had beene long deluded, Was with kisses sweet concluded. And Phillida with garlands gay: Was made the Lady of the May.
FINIS.

N. Breton.

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