...sweet sonnet from the Passionate Pilgrim, composed by the greatest bard of the last or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made; Lambs did leap, and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and plants did spring. Every thing did banish...

...wocs." In The Passionate Pilgrim' he enlarges on this point : — " Everything did lanish moan, Sure the Nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up till a thorn, And there sang the dolrfttll'st ditty That to hear, it was creat pity. .... That to...

...town, Such a storm As oft twixt May and April is to see, When winds breathe sweet, unruly tho' they be. IN the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade...birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring : Every thing did banish moan. SHAKSPERE. BARNEFIELD. (1598.) Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,...

...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addra» to the Nightingale.] eis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and...the race where that immortal garland is to be run fo sine, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone....

...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addnat to the Nightingale.] of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays...part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and alipper Beaut* did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did groxv, anil plants did spring ; Everything di<l banish...

...fweet fonnet from the Paffionate Pilgrim, compofed by the greateft bard of the laft or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleafant made, Which a grove of myrtles made ; Lambs did leap, and birds did fing ; Trees did grow,...

...Lambs did leap, and birds did fing ; Trees did grow, and plants did fpring. Every thing did banifh moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breaft up-till a thorn ; And there fung the dolefull'ft ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie...

...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thce and be thy love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring...

...singeth with her breast against a thorn," he was, of course borrowing from Richard Barnefield's ' Ode ': Everything did banish moan Save the nightingale alone.....She, poor bird, as all forlorn Lean'd her breast against a thorn, And there sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Whence did Barnefield...

...printed in Malone's ' Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare.' The sonnet commences with the words — As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May ; and, in allusion to it, in his preliminary remarks on the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' Malone says that...