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Houghton Library - Hazlitt EC65
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The Sheepherd's Mirth.

WHen Phaebus was just riseing
It was one Morning fair
In the month of May so pleasent
I went to take the Air
A fair Sheepherdess I espy'd
A sitting in a grove
All alone making moan
For the loss of her true Love

Long I had not stayd there
Before the Nymphs and Swains
They quickly did surround her
In a most glorious train
Saying fairest of Creatures
No longer now complain
Ne'er be sad for the Lad
That is gone over the Main

That ne'er will bring him over
So now lets merry be
Who knows by Fortune once may turn
And bring him safe to thee
But for the preasent we'll be merry
In this pleasent grove
Be content ne'er lament
For the loss of him you love

Fair Creature do you Remember,
This is the month of May
In the Begining of the next
It is your Loves Birth Day
So now Let us be merry
And pass the time away
In this grove, what we Love
For it is our Holliday.

Then with sweet Fragrant Flowers
A Garland they did make
To Crown the Sheeperdess so fair
Such Labour they did take
To pick the whitest blossom
That grew upon the thron
Happy Day they did say
that our Sheepherdess was born

Soon as the Sheepherdess was Crown'd,
Wirh those sweet Flowers gay
She straitway then took up her Flute
And sweetly did play
Why should not I be merry
Now in the month of may
On my Flute to salute
the Sheepherd's Holliday

Many years has he been from me
His absence I have mourn'd
But yet I hope that once again
To me he will return
So now I will be merry
And sweetly I will play
On my Flute to Salute
The Sheepherd's Holliday

The Lambs did Skip and caper
All things seem'd to rejoyce
The Nymphs did sing likewise the Swains
With one united Voice
This is the Sheepherd's Holliday
The next it is in June
We will play on that Day
When the White Rose is in Bloom


London: Printed by W. Fowler, at the Ditch Side.

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