In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain masque, Content though blind, had I no better guide. MILTON. L Co [FAIRY SONG.] HOME, follow, follow me, When mortals are at rest, Through key-holes we do glide; And, if the house be foul, There we pinch their arms and thighes; None escapes, nor none espies. But if the house be swept, For we use before we goe Upon a mushroome's head The grasshopper, gnat, and fly And if the moon doth hide her head, On tops of dewie grasse So nimbly do we passe, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends when we do walk: Yet in the morning may be seen Where we the night before have been. SING SONNET. [A PARTING.] INCE there's no help, come let us kiss and Nay, I have done : you get no more of me : Be it not seen in either of our brows .. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, [NOSE VERSUS EYES.] REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND B IN ANY OF THE BOOKS. ETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong; The point in dispute was, as well the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning: While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. Then holding the spectacles up to the courtYour lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short, Again, would your lordship a moment suppose ('Tis a case that has happen'd, and may be again,) That the visage or countenance had not a nose, Pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then ? On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them. Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how), So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, FROM En. CUPID'S CURSE. [SUNG BY CENONE AND PARIS. THE ARRAIGNMENT OF PARIS:" A DRAMATIC FA PASTORAL-1584.] AIRE, and faire, and twice so faire, The fairest shepherd on our greene, Paris. Faire, and faire, and twice so faire, Thy Love is fair for thee alone, En. My Love is faire, my Love is gay, En. Faire, and faire, and twice so faire, The fairest shepherd on our greene, Paris. Faire, and faire, and twice so faire, Thy Love is faire for thee alone, En. My Love can pipe, my Love can sing, They that do change old love for newe, Pray Gods they change for worse! GEORGE PEELE. |