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Enter Armado.

Arm. Sweet Majefty, vouchfafe me-
Prin. Was not that Hector?

Dum. That worthy knight of Troy.

Arm. I will kifs thy royal finger, and take leave. I am a votary; I have vow'd to Jaquenetta to hold the plough for her fweet love three years. But, moftefteem'd greatnefs, will you hear the dialogue that the two learned men have compiled, in praise of the owl and the cuckow? it fhould have follow'd in the end of our fhow.

King. Call them forth quickly, we will do so.
Arm. Holla! approach.

Enter all.

This fide is Hiems, winter.

This Ver, the fpring: the one maintain'd by the owl, The other by the cuckow.

Ver, begin.

The

SONG.

SPRING.

(57) When daizies pied, and violets blue,
And Lady-fmocks all filver white,
And cuckow-buds of yellow hue,
Do paint the meadows with delight;
The cuckow then on every tree
Mocks married men; for thus fings he,
Cuckow !

Cuckow! cuckow! O word of fear,
Unpleafing to a married ear!

When fhepherds pipe on oaten ftraws,

And merry larks are ploughmens clocks:
When turtles tread, and rooks and daws;

And maidens bleach their fummer smocks;

compafs of a play, yet he knew the abfurdity of fo doing, and was not unacquainted with the rule to the contrary.

(57) When daiztes py'd, and violets blue,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

The

The cuckow then on every tree

Mocks married men; for thus fings he,
Cuckow !

Cuckow! cuckow! O word of fear,
Unpleafing to a married ear!

WINTER.

VINT

When ificles hang by the wall,

And Dick the fhepherd blows his nail;
And Tom bears logs into the hall,

And milk comes frozen home in pail ;
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
Then nightly fings the ftaring ow!
Tu-whit! to-who!

A merry note,

While greafy fone doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the Parfon's faw;
And birds fit brooding in the fnow,

And Marian's nofe looks red and raw;
When roafted crabs hifs in the bowl,
Then nightly fings the ftaring owl,
Tu-whit! to-who!

Do paint the meadows with delight;] Tho' all the printed copies range these verfes in this order, I have not fcrupled to tranfpofe the fecond and third verfe, that the metre may be conformable with that of the three following ftanza's, in all which the rhimes of the first four lines are alternate. -I have now done with this play, which in the main may be call'd a very bad one: and I have found it fo very troublesome in the corruptions, that, I think, I may conclude with the old religious editors, Deo gratias!

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