GREEN'S ARCADIA. SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD, AFTER ESCAPING FROM SHIPWRECK. 21 MOTHER'S wag, pretty boy, When he had left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not my wanton, smile upon my knee; The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leap'd; More he crow'd, more he cried, Weep not my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. The above beautiful stanzas are from the Arcadia of ROBERT GREEN. Lond. 1616. Green was born a gentleman, but compelled from necessity to support himself and his family by the efforts of his pen. His publications are from forty-five to fifty in number, from the sale of which he had managed to obtain a precarious livelihood. He died about the year 1592. TO COLIN CLOUT. BEAUTY sat bathing by a spring, But better memory said, fie, So vain desire was chidden: Hey nonnie, nonnie, &c. Into a slumber then I fell, When fond imagination Seem'd to see, but could not tell But even as babes in dreams do smile, As when I fell a-sleeping: Hey nonnie, nonnie, &c. The above is Song 13th in "England's Helicon," 1600; Lond. 4to. p. 192. This scarce and valuable work contains 150 separate Songs and Poems, contributed by the different literary characters of the day, or selected from contemporary works of acknowledged merit. WHO PROSTRATE LIES AT WOMAN'S FEET. WHO prostrate lies at woman's feet, And calls them darlings dear and sweet, BATESON AND Hunnis' SONGS. 23 Protesting love, and craving grace, And praising oft a foolish face, They catch at naught, and hold it fast. WHEN FIRST MINE EYES. WHEN first mine eyes did view and mark And when my ears 'gan first to hark The pleasant words that thou me told, And when in mind I did consent To wist such bait myself to spill, O flatterer false! thou traitor born, What mischief more might thou devise, Fie, fie upon such treachery! The above Lyric is by HUNNIS, one of the contributors to the "Paradise of Dainty Divices," in the time of Edward IV. and Mary; author of "A Hive of Honey," "A Hive of Honeysuckle," a translation of the Psalms, &c. Hunnis died in the year 1568. THE NYMPHS TO THEIR MAY QUEEN. WITH fragrant flowers we strew the way, For though this clime was bless'd of yore, O beauteous Queen of second Troy, Now the air is sweeter than sweet balm, O beauteous Queen of second Troy, Now birds record new harmony, O beauteous Queen of second Troy, The above is by THOMAS WATSON, whose poetical works are numerous, and of various merit. Stephens prefers his Sonnets to those of Shakespeare. He was born in 1560, and died in 1592. TAKE ALL ADVENTURES PATIENTLY. THOUGH pinching be a privy pain, To want's desire, that is but vain; Though some be curs'd, and some be kind, Subdue the worst with patient mind. RALEIGH'S SONGS. Who sits so high, who sits so low, To marry a sheep, to marry a shrew, 25 From the Play of " Tom Tyler and his Wife," 1598; in Garrick's Scarce Plays. A NYMPH'S DISDAIN OF LOVE. HEY down a down, did Dian sing, With a down, down derry. When women knew no woe, But lived themselves to please, Unborn was false suspect; No thought of jealousy; From wanton toys, and fond affect, D |