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THe fairest Nymph that vallyes Or Mountaines ever bred, The shepheards joy, So beautifull and coy, Faire Phillida is dead; On whom they oft have tended, And carold on the Plaines And for her sake Sweet Roundelayes did make, Admird by rurall Swaines: But cruell Fates the beauties envying Of this blooming Rose, So ready to disclose, With a frost unkindly Nipt the bud untimely, So away her glory goes. The Sheep for woe goe bleating, That they their Goddesse misse, And sable Ewes, By their mournfull shewes, Her absence, cause of this; The Nymphs leave off their dancing, Pans Pipe of joy is cleft; For greats his griefe, He shunneth all reliefe, Since she from him is reft. Come, fatall Sisters, leave there your spooles Leave mourning altogether, That made this flower to wither: Let envy, that foule Vipresse, Put on a wreath of Cypresse, Singing sad Dirges altogether.
Diana was chiefe mourner, At these sad Obsequies, Who with her traine Went tripping ore the Plaine, Singing dolefull Elegies: Menalchus and Amintas, And many Shepheards moe, With mournefull Verse, Did all attend her Hearse, And in sable sadly goe: Flora, the Goddes that used to beautify Faire Phillis lovely bowers, With sweet fragrant flowers, Now her grave adorned, And with flowers mourned. Teares thereon in vaine she powres. Venus alone triumphed, To see this dismall day, Who did despaire, That Phillida the faire Her lawes would nere obey. The blinded boy his arrowes And Darts were vainely spent: Her heart, alas, Inpenetrable was, And to love would nere assent: At which affront Citharea repined, Cause death with his Dart, Had pierct her tender heart: But her noble spirit Doth such joyes inherit, Which from her shall nere depart.