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S120168 4 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN a new Court Tune UNKNOWN A New Court Tune the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune COme love, lets walke into the springe, / where wee will heare the blackbird SWeet heart come tel me whose soft layes / in your conceit deserves most prayse? Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 198 1: 199 The Lovers delight: / OR, / A pleasant Pastorall Sonnet The Lovers delight: OR, A pleasant Pastorall Sonnet The Lover's delight: OR, A pleasant Pastoral Sonnet 1624-1624 Francis Coules.

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COme love, lets walke into the springe, where wee will heare the blackbird singe; The Robin Redbrest, and the Thrush, the nightingale on thornie bush, Their musick sweetely Carrowling, that to my love Content may bring. In yonder dale there are sweete flowers, with many pleasent shadie bowers; A pearling brooke with silver streames, all beautified with Phebus beames: I stood behind a tree for feare, to see Dyana bathe her there. See where the nimph, with all her traine comes tripping ore the Parke a maine: In yonder grove there will they stay at barlie-breake to sport and playe: Where wee will sitt us downe and see faire beautie mixt with Chastitie. The youthfull shephard with delight will tune a pleasant oaten pipe: Each neatresse fine with heavenly note will stretch and straine her varie throate; So loud and cleare their nimphs will sing that hills and vallies all will ringe. The shepheard Srephan with his friend the faithfull Clayes will attend By playe before the Queene, to prove who best deserves Uranias love: A most strange sight there shall you see rivalls of love and amitie. Menalcas and Amintas young, brave Coridon, and Thersis strong Your minds would unto pleasure move to have them plead for Phillis love: Judge of these tryumphs who shall be but the faire Queene of chastity?
Under the shade of yonder pine you see a Royall throne devine Prepared for the Judge to sit, the Queene of beauty and of wit, Wise Pallas in her Majesty the pavid Judge is chose to be. The Queene of love is banisht there For feare that Phaebe take offence; Her wanton sonne must not come there, nor Cylharea once appeare: It grieves my heart to thinke that shee from this aspect exempt must be. For if the Queene of love should spie the splendour of thy heavenly eye, Shee should perswade her winged Sonne to wound thy heart as hee hath done. My silly breast with dreade and feare, but O the chaince, shee is not here. See where the wood-Nimphs rankt do stand with each a garland in her hand, Compact of mir and sweete bayes; for who deserved the chiefest prayse In pleading of their passions here, the Lawrell Crowne away must beare. Upon this bed of vyolets blew a seate most fit for lovers true: Here may wee sit us downe and see love tryumph in his Majesty: By the sweete eclogs that are sung, wee shall perceive, who suffred wrong. But stay, the Judges comes to sit, the Queene of chastity and wit: The Shepheards all are ready here in comly habits to appeare. All wrongs here righted wee shall see by the faire Queene of chastity.
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SWeet heart come tel me whose soft layes in your conceit deserves most prayse? Or who did set forth passions best? how Cupid wounded his brest? I know you have noted all thats past, from the first man unto the last. Me thought it great content did bring, to heare the Shepheards carrowling, To Crowne Cilrana, made her choise, Menalcas for his heavenly voyce; Which glory did small pleasure move, since Coridon had Phillis love. To wrastle and throw barres of length; all men gave place to Thersis strength: His stedfast footing none could move, yet for all this hee lost his love No strength or harmony of voyce could Phillis move to make her choyce. If it had rested in my power, there to have chose a paramour: Hee whom I thought deservd most grace, was young Amintas; whose sweet face, And nimble feete could not be matcht. the Deities I feare were catcht. Did you not note how Pallas swore the like shee never saw before? Had Meliager made such hast, Athlanta had the wager lost: In token of deserved praise, she crowned him with lasting bayes. Then Phaebe unto Phillis said, to make thy choise be not afraide, For if I were the Nimph to choose, Amintas I would not refuse: But all in vaine they did exhort, for Corridon had Phillis heart. Both Pallas and Diana chast, did almost straine with breathles hast: Who could their prayses farther heape, on young Amintas and his sheepe, His person, gesture, and his grace they did applaud, and his sweete face.
But tell mee love the reason, why faire Phillis with the Christall eye, Did all the youthfull swaines refuse, and Corridon a love did chuse? Since they in beauty did excell, and for each prayse did beare the bell. It seemes the beauty of the mind, did in this case strike Phillis blind: His eloquence of tongue and wit, in place whereas the Judge did sit Was his chiefe gaine, and their soule losse, Ulisses so had Ajax crosse. But one thing much doth make mee muse, why sweete Urania did refuse, Her two beloved Ryvalls there? in whom such friendship did appeare, That stil they wild her with one voyce, in friendly wise to make her choyce. How prettily they laid the ground, how shee at first their heart did wound, When shee by them her Neate did keepe, and leaving the men halfe a sleepe, Her bird out of her pocket ranne, and unto Strephans hand did come. The pretty neatresse did awake, heareing her fluttering bird escape, And unto Strephans hand did hye. he did restore imediatly Her bird, and eke his heart she got, and in her snow white bosome put. The silly bird but for his love his passions could in no wayes move, Neither for himselfe nor his trew friend, as it appeared in the end, That neither party should grow wroth, shee most unkinde refused them both. And now mee thinkes the sun growes low. If you be mist, your friends will know That you and I have beene alone, which to prevent Ile bring you home, To part it is a second hell, loth to depart bids oft farewell.
Printed at London for Francis Coules. FINIS.