Another of the same, by Firmius the Shepheard.
IF that the gentle winde
doth moue the leaues with pleasant sound,
If that the Kid behinde
Is left, that cannot finde
her Dam, runnes bleating vp and downe:
Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.
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- Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.
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- 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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The Bagpipe, Reede, or Flute,
onely with ayre if that they touched be,
With pitty all salute,
And full of loue do•• brute
thy name, and sound Diana, seeing thee:
A faire Mayd wed to prying Ielousie.
The fierce and sauage beasts
(beyond their kinde and nature yet)
With pitteous voyce and brest,
In mountaines without rest
the selfe same Song doe not forget.
If that they stay'd at (Faire)
and had not passed to prying Iealousie,
With plaints of such despaire
As moou'd the gentle ayre
to teares: The Song that they did sing, should bee
One of the fairest as euer I did see.
Mishap, and fortunes play,
ill did they place in Beauties brest:
For since so much to say,
There was of beautie sway,
they had done well to leaue the rest.
They had enough to doe,
if in her praise their wits they did awake:
But yet so must they too,
And all thy loue that woe,
thee not too coy, nor too too proud to make,
If that thou wilt a secret Louer take.
For if thou hadst but knowne
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the beautie, that they heere doe touch,
Thou would'st then loue alone
Thy selfe, nor any one,
onely thy selfe accounting much.
But if thou do'st conceaue
this beauty, that I will not publique make,
And mean'st not to bereaue
The world of it, but leaue
the same to some (which neuer peere did take,)
(Sweet life) doe not my secret loue forsake.
FINIS.
Bar. Yong.