"UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE” UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. JAQ. I'll give you a verse to this note that I made yesterday in despite of my invention. AMI. And I'll sing it. JAQ. Thus it goes: If it do come to pass Gross fools as he, An if he will come to me. William Shakespeare "O MISTRESS MINE" O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming? Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, William Shakespeare "COME AWAY, COME AWAY, DEATH" COME away, come away, death, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My part of death, no one so true Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown: A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, Το weep there! William Shakespeare "WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY" WHEN that I was and a little tiny boy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man's estate, But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, A great while ago the world begun, "WHAT SHALL HE HAVE THAT KILL'D THE DEER?" WHAT shall he have that kill'd the deer? His leather skin and horns to wear. Then sing him home; Take thou no scorn to wear the horn; The horn, the horn, the lusty horn William Shakespeare |