THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER. SONG IN THE WOOD. THIS way, this way come, and hear, THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN. THE LUSTY SPRING. NOW the lusty spring is seen; Golden yellow, gaudy blue, All love's emblems, and all cry, And inviting men to taste, All love's emblems, and all cry, HE HEAR WHAT LOVE CAN DO. EAR, ye ladies that despise, What the mighty love has done; Fear examples, and be wise: Fair Calisto was a nun; Leda, sailing on the stream To deceive the hopes of man, Love accounting but a dream, Doated on a silver swan; Danaë, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower. Hear, ye ladies that are coy, What the mighty love can do; Fear the fierceness of the boy: The chaste moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires, Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires, Doting at the altar dies; Ilion, in a short hour, higher MY Did me promise, He would visit me this night. I am here, love; Tell me, dear love, How I may obtain thy sight. Come up to my window, love; Come, come, come! * By Fletcher. Come to my window, my dear; Shall trouble thee again, THE CHANCES.* AN INVOCATION. COME away, thou lady gay: Hoist how she stumbles! Answer.-I come, I come. By old Claret I enlarge thee, Why when? Answer. You'll tarry till I am ready. Once again I conjure thee, By the pose in thy nose, And the gout in thy toes; And thy hood that's made of stuff; And thine old salt itch; *Ascribed to Fletcher. An abbreviation of Peter-see-me, itself a corruption of PedroXimenes, derived from Pedro-Simon, who is said to have imported the grape from the Rhine.-See note by Mr. Dyce, from Henderson's History of Wines-Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, vii. 297. Ximenes is still a well-known wine. THE BLOODY BROTHER; OR, ROLLO, DUKE OF DR A DRINKING SONG. RINK to-day, and drown all sorrow, Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, Then let us swill, boys, for our health; Falls with the leaf, still in October.‡ *The sole authorship of this play by Fletcher is doubtful, although ascribed to him on the title-page of the edition of 1640. Parts of it are supposed, on internal evidence, to have been written by some other dramatist.-Weber suggests either W. Rowley or Middleton. This defence of drinking is repeated and expanded in a song by Shadwell. The following well-known catch, or glee, is formed on this song: SONG OF THE YEOMAN OF THE CELLAR, THE BUTLER, THE COOK, AND PAUL THE PANTLER* GOING TO EXECUTION. Co Yeoman. YOME, Fortune's a jade, I care not who tell her, Would offer to strangle a page of the cellar, That should by his oath, to any man's thinking, And place, have had a defence for his drinking; But thus she does still when she pleases to palter,— Instead of his wages, she gives him a halter. Chorus. Three merry boys, and three merry boys, Butler. But I that was so lusty, Chorus.-Three merry boys, &c. Cook. Oh, yet but look On the master cook, *The Pantler was the servant who had charge of the pantry. |