CHILD WATERS.

And take her up in thine armes twaine,
For filinge of her feete.

Ellen is gone into the towne,

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And low into the streete:

The fairest ladye that shee cold find,

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Shee hyred in his armes to sleepe;

And tooke her up in her armes twayne,
For filing of her feete.

I praye you nowe, good Childe Waters,
Let mee lye at your bedds feete:
For there is noe place about this house,
Where I may 'sayet a sleepe.

gave her leave, and faire Ellèn

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'He

'Down at his beds feet laye :'

This done the nighte drove on apace,
And when it was neare the daye,

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Hee sayd, Rise up, my litle foot-page,
Give my steede corne and haye;

And soe doe thou the good black oats,

To carry mee better awaye.

Up then rose the faire Ellèn,

And gave his steede corne and hay:

i. e. defiling. See Warton's Observ. vol. II. p. 158. ti. e. essay, attempt.

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And soe shee did the good blacke oates,

To carry him the better away.

Shee leaned her backe to the manger side, 145 And grievouslye did groane:

Shee leaned her back to the manger side,

And there she made her moane.

And that beheard his mother deere,

Shee heard her there monand.*

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Shee sayd, Rise up, thou Childe Waters,

I think thee a cursed man.

For in thy stable is a ghost,

That grievouslye doth grone:

Or else some woman laboures of childe,
She is soe woe-begone.

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Up then rose Childe Waters soon,

And did on his shirte of silke;

And then he put on his other clothes,
On his body as white as milke.

And when he came to the stable dore,

Full still there hee did stand,
That hee might heare his fayre Ellèn,
Howe shee made her monand.*

* Sic in MS. i. e. moaning, bemoaning, &c.

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She sayd, Lullabye, mine owne deere child, 165

Lullabye, dere child, dere;

I wold thy father were a king,

Thy mother layd on a biere.

Peace now, hee said, good faire Ellèn,
Be of good cheere, I praye;

And the bridal and the churching both
Shall bee upon one day.

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X.

PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.

This Sonnet is given from a small quarto MS. in the Editor's possession, written in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Another Copy of it, containing some variations, is reprinted in the Muses Library, p. 295, from an ancient miscellany, intitled England's Helicon, 1600, 4to. The author was NICHOLAS BRETON, a writer of some fame in the reign of Elizabeth; who also published an interlude intitled "An old man's lesson and a young man's love," 4to. and many other little pieces in prose and verse, the titles of which may be seen in Winstanley, Ames' Typog. and Osborne's Harl. Catalog. &c.-He is mentioned with great respect by MERES, in his 2d part of Wit's Commonwealth, 1598, f. 283, and is alluded to in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady, Act 2. and again in Wit without Money, Act 3.-See Whalley's Ben Jonson, vol. III. p. 103.

The present Edition is improved by a copy in "England's Helicon," edit. 1614. 8vo.

In the merrie moneth of Maye,
In a morne by break of daye,
With a troope of damselles playing
Forthe I yode' forsooth a maying:

When anon by a wood side,
Where as Maye was his pride,
I espied all alone

Phillida and Corydon.

Ver. 4. the wode, MS.

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Much adoe there was, god wot;
He wold love, and she wold not.
She sayde, never man was trewe;
He sayes, none was false to you.

He sayde, hee had lovde her longe :
She sayes, love should have no wronge.
Corydon wold kisse her then:

She sayes, maydes must kisse no men,

Tyll they doe for good and all.
When she made the shepperde call
All the heavens to wytnes truthe,
Never loved a truer youthe.

Then with manie a prettie othe,
Yea and nay, and faith and trothe;
Suche as seelie shepperdes use
When they will not love abuse;

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Love, that had bene long deluded,

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Was with kisses sweete concluded;

And Phillida with garlands gaye

Was made the lady of the Maye.

The foregoing little Pastoral of PHILLIDA AND CORYDON is one of the Songs in "The Honourable "Entertainment gieven to the Queenes Majestie in "Progresse at Elvetham in Hampshire, by the R. H. "the Earle of Hertford, 1591," 4to. [Printed by Wolfe. No name of author.] See in that pamphlet, "The thirde daies Entertainment.