Else I with roses every day, Will whip you hence, And bind you when you long to play, For your offence; I'll shut my eyes to keep you in, I'll make you fast it for your sin, I'll count your power not worth a pin, Alas! what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me! What if I beat the wanton boy, With many a rod, Because a god; Spare not, but play thee. A CHARACTER OF LOVE. SAMUEL DANYELL, born 1562, died 1619. Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing, Why so? Hey ho ! ! Love is a torment of the mind, A tempest everlasting, Why so? Hey ho! SIGH NO MORE LADIES. Men were deceivers ever ; Then sigh not so, But let them go, Into, Hey nonny, nonny. Of dumps so dull and heavy; Then sigh not so, But let them go, Into, Hey nonny, nonny. From “Much Ado About Nothing," Act II., Scene iii. This song is sung by Balthazar and affirmed by Don Pedro to be “ By my troth, a good song.' HARK! HARK! THE LARK ! WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, As Phæbus 'gins arise, On chaliced flowers that lies, To ope their golden eyes ; Arise,-arise. From Cymbeline-sung by Cloten's musicians under the windows of Imogen's TAKE, OH TAKE, THOSE LIPS AWAY! chamber. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. TAKE, oh take, those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ! Lights that do mislead the morn; Hide, oh hide, those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears ! Are of those that April wears ; * There is some doubt as to the authorship of this exquisite song. The first stanza is quoted in “ Measure for Measure." Both of the stanzas appear in the “Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy," by Beaumont and Fletcher. It does not follow, however, that any part of it is Shakspeare's because it is introduced in one of his plays. A note on this passage in Knight's edition of Shakspeare's plays says, “ The question arises, is this, song to be attributed to Shakspeare or Fletcher? Malone justly observes that all the songs introduced in our author's plays appear to have been his own composition. The idea in the line * Seals of love, but sealed in vain,' is found in the 142d sonnet. The image is also repeated in 'Venus and Adonis' Weber, the editor of Beaumont and Fletcher, is of opinion that the first stanza was Shakspeare's and that Fletchor added the second. There is no evidence, we apprehend, internal or external, by which the question can be settled." THE FOLLY OF LOVE. From John DowLAND's Second Book of Songs, 1600. What poor astronomers are they, Take women's eyes for stars, To fight such idle wars ; 'Tis but a jest drawn, out of love. And love itself is but a jest, Devised by idle heads, And lay it in fools' beds ; How wit will run on wheels; With that which reason feels- I cannot clear their sight, To look where is no light; They study false astronomy. "John Dowland,” says a note in the Rev. Alexander Dyce's edition of the Poems of Shakspeare, “was a famous latinist." In a sonnet often attributed to Shakspeare, because inserted in his “ Passionate Pilgrim," but published by Richard Barnefield, a year belore the “Passionate Pilgrim " was given to the world, occur the lines ; “ Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE. From “An Houre's Recreation in Musicke.” RICHARD ALLISON, 1606. THERE is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow; Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow; Those cherries fairly do inclose, Of orient pearl a double row, They look like rose-buds felld with snow ; Her eyes like angels watch them still, Her brows like bended bows do stand, All that approach with eye or hand This song is apparently the original which suggested to Herrick the lines entitled “ Cherry Ripe.” Having been somewhat altered and adapted to a pleasing melody by Mr. Charles Horn, the song of “Cherry Ripe" became very popular about the year 1825. CHERRY RIPE Cherry ripe, ripe, I cry, Cherry ripe, ripe, I cry SYMPTOMS OF LOVE. From “ The Muses' Gardens," 1610. ONCE did my thoughts both ebb and flow, As passion did them move ; And then I was in love. Once did I waking spend the night, And told how many minutes move ; And then I was in love. |