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R214141 2 Sabina Sabina Sabina the same tune Sabina The Same Tune YOu Muses all your aide to mee assigne / To speake in praise of the true loue of mine. HEr rubie lips which doth inclose the tongue / from whence rare elegies are sweetly sung, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 62 1: 63 A Compleate Gentle-vvoman / Described by her feature, / Her person slender, her beauty admirable, her wit excellent, her carriage / modest, her behaviour chast, with her constancie in love. A Compleate Gentle-woman Described by her feature, Her person slender, her beauty admirable, her wit excellent, her carriage modest, her behaviour chast, with her constancie in love. A Complete Gentlewoman Described by her feature, Her person slender, her beauty admirable, her wit excellent, her carriage modest, her behavior chaste, with her constancy in love. Price, Lawrence ?-?

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YOu Muses all your aide to mee assigne To speake in praise of the true love of mine. Strike up with joy Strike up with joy Strike up with joy your instruments of mirth Till piercing Ecchoes ring twixt heaven and earth. Let Pan with speed prepare himselfe to play, And sweetly chaunt my love a roundelay While Satyres peepe While Satyres peepe While Satyres peepe to see her lovely face, Let Citterne, harpe, and lute her meeting grace. Let all the Poets company combine Their wits in one for my sweet Rosaline, And say that shee And say that shee And say that shee Queene Venus doth excell, For beauty, love, and wit shee beares the bell.
And to recite the substance of her feature That all may say shee is a comely creature, From head to foot From head to foot From head to foot I will unfold aright The shape of her which is my hearts delight. First is her haire like threds of golden wyre Upon her head is set a seemly tyre, Which doth protect Which doth protect Which doth protect her crimson cheeks from wind From Titans heate and Boreas blasts unkinde. Her glistring eyes excell the diamond light, When I behold her countenance by night, I doe admire I doe admire I doe admire to see her beauteous brow In whom Diana chastnesse doth allow.
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HEr rubie lips which doth inclose the tongue From whence rare elegies are sweetly sung, That may amaze That may amaze That may amaze each rurall swaine to heare Her Siren songs with voice so shrill and cleare. Her Ivorie necke with golden gems compleate, Her armes and shoulders framed fine and neate, Her lilly hand Her lilly hand Her lilly hand and fingers long and small With slender wast and person some-what tall. And farther to devulge some other parts Wherein dame nature shewes her chiefest arts, I purpose to I purpose to I purpose to stoope downe unto the toe, And so speake of the rest as up I goe. Her pretty foot and nimble dapper heele Her shaking legge have showne such active skill, Both Coridon Both Coridon Both Coridon and Phillis blusht to see Her amourous cariage when shee bends the knee.
Not only this which nature in her plact, But Ladie vertue hath her further gract In all respects In all respects In all respects each creature doth her finde To passe the Pellican shee is so kinde. So constant in her actions still is shee Shee may compare with chast Penelope, Her minde once fixt Her minde once fixt Her minde once fixt it never will remove, Sheel rather die like to the Turtle dove. Her will to chastitie is so applid, Shee scornes ambition, lust, and hatefull pride, Whereby shee gaines Whereby shee gaines Whereby shee gaines good wil of great and smal Strong weak, high low, rich poore, they love her al But since my trembling hand and pen wants skil To write her fame compleate unto my will, I here conclude I here conclude I here conclude wishing each honest lad May have so true a choice as I have had.
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