 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
 | Robert Greene - Authors, English - 1886 - 382 pages
...eulogy of rustic married life, the Shepherd's Wife's Song, in ' The Mourning Garment, beginning : — ' Ah, what is love ? it is a pretty thing, As sweet...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? ' In beggary and want, yet able to express his sorrows in that GI g mournful song of a wasted life... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...one of many little prose works that he wrote in euphuistic fashion : — 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 are folded, he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight ; 10 And merrier... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - English drama - 1883 - 652 pages
...Such a shepherd's wife as she Was not more in Thessaly. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. An. what ia love T It is a pretty thing,] As sweet unto a shepherd as...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,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...The Shepherd's Wife's Song praises the pleasures of a pastoral life in a series of graceful stanzas : 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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...The Shepherd's Wife's Song praises the pleasures of a pastoral life in a series of graceful stanzas : 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 - 1885 - 422 pages
...kings bethink them what the state require, Where shepherds careless carol by the fire : Ah then, all 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... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - English poetry - 1890 - 226 pages
...licensed in 1588. 3 ' ' For why " = because. From The Mourning Garment, 159°THE SHEPHERDS 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 comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight ; And merrier too,... | |
 | Torben Lundbeck - English drama - 1890 - 262 pages
...a crown, »And cares can make the sweetest lowe to frown: »Ah then, ah then, »If country loves so sweet desires do gain, »What lady would not love a shepherd swain.« *) Se p. 91. =>) p. 21. 4) Det før nævnte Skrift p. 33-35. *) Trykt i: Doubtful plays of W. Shakespeare... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - Ballads, English - 1891 - 348 pages
...licensed in 1588. 2 "For why "= because. From The Mourning Garment, '59°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 are folded, he comes home at night, As merry as a king in his delight; And merrier too,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1891 - 250 pages
...list, if beauty be so sour ; Labor for me, Love rest in prince's bower. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. 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... | |
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