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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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XXVIII. (a) <strong>the</strong> shepheardes calender. 339Coh'n.Then<strong>of</strong>, <strong>to</strong> that I choose, thou doest me tempt,But ah, <strong>to</strong> well I wote my humble vaine, 50And howe my rymes bene rugged and vnkemptYet, as I conne, my conning I will strayne.Vp <strong>the</strong>n, Melpomene, thou moumefulst Muse <strong>of</strong> nyne,Such cause <strong>of</strong> mourning neuer hadst afore :Vp, grieslie ghostes, and vp, my rufull ryme, 55Matter <strong>of</strong> myrth now shalt thou haue no more.For dead shee is,that myrth <strong>the</strong>e made <strong>of</strong> yore.Dido, my deare, alas ! is dead,Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead :O heauie herse 60Let streaming teares be poured out in s<strong>to</strong>reO carefull verse.Shepheards, that by your flocks on Kentish downes abyde,Waile ye this w<strong>of</strong>uU waste <strong>of</strong> Natures warke :Waile we <strong>the</strong> wight, whose presence was our pryde : 65Waile we <strong>the</strong> wight, whose absence isour carke.The Sonne <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> world is dimme and darke :The earth now lacks her wonted light.And all we dwell in deadly night,O heauie herse. 7°Breake we our pypes, that shrild as lowde as Larke,O carefull verse.Why doe we longer Hue, (ah why Hue we so long).Whose better dayes death hath shut vp in woe'^.The fayrest floure our gyrlond all emong 75z 2

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