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 7, 2024.
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¶The Shepheard Syluanus his Song.
MY life (young Shepheardesse) for theeOf needes to death must post:But yet my griefe must stay with me,After my life is lost.
The grieuous ill, by death that cured is,Continually hath remedy at hand:But not that torment that is like to this,That in slow time, and Fortunes meanes doth stand.
And if this sorrow cannot beEnded with life (at most:)
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What then doth this thing profit me)A sorrow wonne or lost?
Yet all is one to me, as now I triea flattering hope, or that that had not beene yet:For if to day for want of it I die,Next day I doe no lesse for hauing seene it.
Faine would I die, to end and freeThis grieefe, that kills me most:If that it might be lost with me,Or die when life is lost.
FINIS.
Bar. Yong.
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