 | Robert Greene - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1894 - 202 pages
...Wiffs Song. Ah, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As fweet unto a fhepherd as a king, And fweeter too ; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the fweeteft love to frown : If country loves fuch fweet defires do gain, What lady would not love a fhepherd... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...pines. ROBERT GREENE, TTu Mourning Garment, 1590. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. 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. 5 Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 412 pages
...pines. ROBERT GREENE, The Mourning Garment, 1590. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. 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. 5 Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...pines. ROBERT GREENE, The Mourning Garment, 1590. THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG. AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king;...cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetesjt love to frown. 5 Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady... | |
 | English poetry - 1895 - 412 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 ? 40 Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe As doth the king at every tide or sithe; And... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 410 pages
...too : For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, When shepherds laugh and love upon the land. 45 Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? ROBERT GREENE, Farewell to Follv, 1591. CONTENT. SWEET are the thoughts that savor of content. The... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 438 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... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 412 pages
...many griefs affects to move, Where shepherds have no greater grief than love. Ah then, ah then, 3° If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Upon his couch of straw he sleeps as sound, As doth the king upon his beds of down; More sounder... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Country life - 1895 - 368 pages
...uncertainty of all human advantages. In this key you have Greene, with his— "Ah, what is love? it is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king; And sweeter too"; or Dekker, with his — "Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O, sweet content ! Art thou... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 414 pages
...merrier too : For kings bethink them what the state require, Where shepherds careless carol by the fire. Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, 1s He kisseth first, then sits as blithe to eat His cream and curds as doth the king his meat ; 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. 
