 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...play, and hil wife to »ing out, this roundelay :— ] Ah I what is love ! It is a pretty thing, Ae sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too :...wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest cares to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, \Vhat lady would not love... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...bliss; A mind content both crown and kingdom is. THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDESS. Ah ! what is love ! 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... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce, George Peele - English drama - 1861 - 650 pages
...shepherd's wife as she Vf a» not more in Thessaly. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king;...wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest lovo to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - English drama - 1861 - 656 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 sithe ; f And... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...content both crown and kingdom is. "AH! WHAT IS LOVE!" BY ROBERT GREENE. AH ! what is love 1 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...a type of bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is. "AH! WHAT IS LOVE I" BY ROBERT GREENF. For kings have cares that 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...content both crown and kingdom is. "AH! WHAT IS LOVE i" BY ROBERT GREENE. AH ! what is love 1 It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too : - ,55 - '-*.2-3 » 'dIll ec p |H fira\^-ait upon a crown, - '-*^ Pi O»* OO '»»'' w -O •- - •••... | |
 | 1900 - 286 pages
...as he knocked the ashes from his pipe. RR. 'of. "A ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS." "Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ?" ROBERT GREENE, "The Mourning Garment." The little Bavarian Lake called Tergensee lay dimpling and... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...what a fool was I ! Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford. VIIL HAPPY AS A SHEPHERD. AH ! what is love ! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,...wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest loves to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not... | |
 | 1867 - 568 pages
...too ; For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, When shepherds laugh and love upon the laud. Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? It would be a waste of time to read Greene. His poetry, like his prose, is wonderfully smooth and... | |
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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. 
