 | English poetry - 1814 - 280 pages
...wife to sing out this Roundelay: THE SHEPHERD S WIFE S SONG. From ttie lameAH ! what is Love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a Shepherd as a King,...crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : TuDoriana ..... 113 If country loves such sweet desires gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd... | |
 | Excerpta Tudoriana - English poetry - 1814 - 350 pages
...to sing out this Roundelay : THE SHEPHERD S WIFE S SONG. From the ftamc. AH ! what is Love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a Shepherd as a King,...crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : If country loves such sweet desires gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd swain ? His flocks... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe As doth the king at every tide or sith ;* And blither... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 338 pages
...blither too, For kings have often fears when they do sup, 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 ? To bed he goes, as wanton then, I ween, As is a king in dalliance with a queen ; More wanton too,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...and nil wife to sing out, this roundelay :— ] Ah ! what is love ! It is a pretty thing, Ал eweet them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell...but lust, Tell time it is but motion, Tell flesh cares to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...hand, und began to play, and bis wife to sing out, this roundelay : — ] Ah ! what is love ! It is a cares to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...hand, and began to play, and hii wife to ting out, this roundelay : — J Ah ! what is love ! It is a ing either from slowness of imagination, cores can make the sweetest cares to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...A mind content both crown and kingdom is. THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDESS. Ah ! what is love I It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,...wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest cares to frown: Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...A mind content both crown and kingdom is. THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDESS. Ah ! what is love I It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,...too: For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, 1 And cares can make the sweetest cares to frown: Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 200 pages
...in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, than a realization. " Ah, what is love ? It is a little thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter...wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest loves to frown ; Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love... | |
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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. 
