SONGS. A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN. [From Cymbeline.] Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin SILVIA. [From The Two Gentlemen of Verona.] Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness. Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness, And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, SIGH NO MORE, LADIES. [From Much Ado about Nothing.] Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, A LOVER'S LAMENT. [From Twelfth Night.] Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. 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, ARIEL'S SONG. [From The Tempest.] Where the bee sucks, there suck I: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. A SEA DIRGE. [From The Tempest.] Full fathom five thy father lies; Those are pearls that were his eyes : But doth suffer a sea-change Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell. IN THE GREENWOOD. [From As You Like It.] Under the greenwood tree Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And pleased with what he gets, No enemy But winter and rough weather. VOL. I. WINTER. [From Love's Labour's Lost.] When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And milk comes frozen home in pail, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow Hh When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. SONG OF AUTOLYCUS. [From The Winter's Tale.] When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale, The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay, Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. But shall I go mourn for that, my dear? If tinkers may have leave to live, Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, |