 AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king ; And sweeter too, For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain,...  The Tuftonian - Page 841900Full view - About this book
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 508 pages
...runner. There is nothing in any of his plays to suggest a possibility of such as the following : — " Ah, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded, he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight ; And merrier too,... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 518 pages
...merrier too, For kings bethink them what the state require, Where shepherds careless carol by the fire. : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain " ? In more regular and even measures, Greene is comparatively stiff and restrained. One of his longest... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - 1874 - 640 pages
...take in hand, Where Î shepherds laugh and love upon the land ; Ah then, oh then, If country lovea such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd ewain 1 HEXAMETRA ALEXIS IN LAUDEM ROSAMUNDS. OFT have I heard my lief Coridon report on a love-day,... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. 1 From Menaphon. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG.1 Ah, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded ; he comes home at night As merry as a king in his delight, And merrier too... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. 1 From Menapkon. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG.1 Ah, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded ; he comes home at night As merry as a king in his delight, And merrier too... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...brightest glass; Such a shepherd's wife as she Was not more in Thessaly. THE SHEPHEBD'S WIFE'S SONG. AH, what is love? It is a pretty thing, -£*- As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain? His flocks are folded, he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight; And merrier too,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...And sweeter too ; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest loves to frown ; Ah then, ah then, If country loves such...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded ; he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight, And merrier too... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...too, For kings have often fears when they do sup, 20 Where shepherds dread no poison in their cup : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? . , , Upon his couch of straw he sleeps as sound, As doth the king upon his beds of down ; More sounder... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...brightest glass; Such a shepherd's wife as she Was not more in Thessaly. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. AH, what is love? It is a pretty thing, •**• As...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? His flocks are folded, he conies home at night, As merry as a king in his delight ; And merrier too,... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...when the city was in their grasp, was soon afterwards slain in a tumult, THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S BONO. AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? ' His flocks are folded, he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight ; And merrier... | |
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