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466 THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER
And thus of all my haruest hope I haue
Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care
Which, when I thought haue thresht in swelling
sheaue,
Cockel for corne, and chaffe for barley bare
Soone as the chaffe should in the fan be fynd,
All was blowne away of the wauenng wynd
So now my yeare drawes to his latter terme,
My spring is spent, my sommer burnt vp quite
My harueste hasts to stirre vp winter sterne,
And bids him clayme with rigorous rage hys
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So nowehe stormes with many a sturdy stoure,
So now his blustnng blast eche coste doth
Now leaue ye shepheards boyes your merry glee,
My Muse is hoarse and weary of thys stounde
Here will I hang my pype vpon this tree, 141
Was neuer pype of reede did better sounde
Winter is come, that blowes the bitter blaste,
And after Winter dreerie death does hast
Gather ye together my little flocke,
My little flock, that was to me so hefe
Let me, ahlette me in your folds ye lock,
Ere the breme Winter breede you greater griefe
Winter is come, that blowes the balefull
breath,
And after Winter commeth timely death
Adieu delightes, that lulled me aslecpe, 151
scoure
The carefull cold hath nypt my rugged rynde,
Adieu my deare, whose loue I bought so deare
And in my face deepe furrowes eld hath pight
Adieu my little Lambes and loued sheepe,
My head besprent with hoary frost I fynd,
Adteu ye Woodes that oft my witnesse were
And by myneeie the Crow his clawe dooth wright
Adieu good Hobbtnol, that was so true,
Tell Rosalind, her Colin bids her adieu
Delight is layd abedde, and pleasure past,
No sonne now shines, cloudes han allouercast
Col ins Embleme
Tityrus) Chaucer, as hath bene oft sa)d
Lambkins) young Iambus
Als of their) Semeth to expressc Virgils \ersi
Pan curat oues ouiumque magistros
Deigne) voutchsafe
Cabinet) Colinet) dimmutiues
Mazie) For they be like to a maze whence it is hard
to get out agayne
Peres) felowes and companions
Musick) that is Pot try as Terence say th Qurarte in
tractant musicam, speking of Poetcs
Derring doe) aforesayd
Lions house) He imagineth simply that Cupid
whtch is loue, had his abode in the whote signe
Leo, which is in middest of somer, a pretie
allegory, whereof the meaning is, that loue in
him wrought an extraord inane heate of lust
His ray) which is Cupides beame or flames of Loue
Comete) a biasing starre, meant of beautie,
which was the cause of his whote loue
Venus) the goddesse of beauty or pleasure Also
a signe in heauen as it is here taken So he
meaneth that beautie, which hath alwayes aspect
to Venus, was the cause of all his vnquietnes
in loue
Where I was) a fine discretion of the chaunge of
hys lyfe and liking, for all things nowe sternal
to hym to haue altered their kindly course
Lording) Spoken after the maner of Pad locks and
Frogges sitting which is indeed Lordly, not
remouing nor looking once a side, vnlesst they
be sturred
Then as) The second part That is his manhoode
Cotes) sheepecotes For such be the exercises of
shepheards
Sale) or Salowa kind of woodde like Wyllou fit
to wreath and bynde in leapes to catch fish
withall
Phaebe fayles) The Eclipse of the Moone, which is
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alwayes in Cauda or Capite Draconis, signes in
heauen
Venus) s Venus starre otherwise called Hesperus
and Vesper and Lucfer, both because he seemeth
to be one of the brightest star res, and also first
ryseth and setteth last All which skill in starne s
being conuenient for shepheardes to knowe as
Theocritus and the rest vse
Raging seaes)The cause of the swelling and ebbing
of the sea commeth of the course of the Moone
sometime encreasing, sometime wayning and
decreasing
Sooth of byrdes) A kind of sooth saying Vsed in
elder tymes, which they gathered by tin flying of
byrds , First fas is sayd) inutented by the
Thuscanes, and from them deriucd to the
Romane s, who (as is sayd in Liuie) were so
suptrsticiously rooted in the sime, that they
agreed that euery Noblem in should put his
sonne to the Thuscanes, by them to be brought
vp in that knowledge
Of nerbes) Tint wonderous thinges be wrought bv
herbes, as willappoareth by the common working
of them in our bodies, as also by the wonderful
enchauntments and sorct nes that haue bene
wrought by them , msomueh that it is sayde that
Circe a famous soreeresse turned men into
sondry kinds of beastcs and Monsters, and onely
by herbes as the Pocte sayth Dea sæua poten
tibus herbis &c
Kidst) knewest Eare) of corne
Scathe)losse hinderaunce
Luer among) Euer and anone
Thus is my) The thyrde parte when in is set forth
his ripe yeres as an vntimely haruest, that
bringeth little fruite
The flagraunt flowres) sundry studies and laudable
partes of learning, when in how our Poete is
seene, be they witnesse which are prime to his
study