SYRINX. AN'S Syrinx was a girl indeed, PAN'S Though now she's turned into a reed; From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come, A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb; SONG TO APOLLO. SING to Apollo, god of day, Whose golden beams with morning play, And make her eyes so brightly shine, Aurora's face is called divine; Sing to Phoebus and that throne To Physic's and to Poesy's king! Crown all his altars with bright fire, To the glittering Delian king! From JOHN LYLY'S Mother IO, BACCHUS ! Omnes. I. O, Bacchus! To thy table 1% Thou call'st every drunken rabble; Then seal us for thy jolly skinkers.1 Wine, O wine, O juice divine, How dost thou the nowle 2 refine! 2. Plump thou mak'st men's ruby faces, And from girls canst fetch embraces. With sparkling carbuncle. 1. Now lion-like to roar, 1 Drawers, tapsters. 2 Head, wits. LOVE'S COLLEGE. CUPID! monarch over kings, It is to show how swift thou art, When thou woundest a tender heart! It is all one in Venus' wanton school, Have far more knowledge To read a woman over, Than a neat prating lover : Nay, 'tis confessed, That fools please women best. From GEORGE PEELE's The FAIR AND FAIR, AND TWICE SO FAIR. Enone. Paris. En. FAIR and fair, and twice so fair, The fairest shepherd on our green, Fair and fair and twice so fair, As fair as any may be ; Thy love is fair for thee alone, And for no other lady. My love is fair, my love is gay, My merry, merry, merry roundelay, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods they change for worse! Ambo simul. They that do change, &c. En. My love can pipe, my love can sing, Par. They that do change, &c. Ambo. Fair and fair, &c. |