 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
 | Earl Ellsworth Fisk - English poetry - 1927 - 120 pages
...time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring. —William Shakespeare. 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:... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...too, For kings have often fears when they do sup, 20 Where shepherds dread no poison in their cup : right shape And downward fell into a groveling swine?)...This Nymph that gazed upon his clustering locks. J To bed he goes, as wanton then, I ween, 25 As is a king in dalliance with a queen; More wanton too.... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...this of me: No sweet love but honesty. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG (FROM GREENE'S MOURNING GARMENT) AH, what is love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain? His flocks once folded, he comes home at night As merry as a king in his delight; And merrier too,... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...right, To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Peele. Polyhymnia, 1590. The Shepherd'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 once folded, he comes home at night As merry as a king in his delight ; And merrier too,... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The Shepherd's Wife's Song Ah, what is love? It is pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king —...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain? His flocks once folded, he comes home at night As merry as a king in his delight— And merrier too,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, 4299 ort, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. 6922 Le Morte Df Anhur GREER Germaine 19394319 The Female Eunuch You can now see the Female Eunuch the world over. 4320 The... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...my heart, and I have his. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY ENGLISH (1554-1586) The Shepherd's Wife's Song MARRIAGE Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto...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 Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1902 - 704 pages
...Sephestia's song to her child, ' Weep not, my wanton.' A better poom is his ' Shepherd'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... | |
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