Best jewel that the earth doth wear! Even when the brave young sun draws near, Himself likewise like form doth bear, At rising and descending. Rose, of the queen of love beloved; It showed that beauty's rose indeed, BARNABE BARNES. (1569?-1609.) Ode and Sonnet lxvi. of Parthenophil and Parthenope, 1593. Reprinted in Arber's Garner, vol. v. ODE. EHOLD, out walking in these valleys, BEHOL When fair PARTHENOPE doth tread, And Amaranthus ever red, Which all her footsteps overspread; With Hyacinth that finds no fellow. Behold, within that shady thick, Where my PARTHENOPE doth walk, The blossomed Hawthorn, white as chalk; The barren Hebene coaly black; Green Ivy, with his strange embraces; Unto the rest, my Mistress' graces! AF SONNET. H, sweet Content! where is thy mild abode? Is it with shepherds, and light-hearted swains, Which sing upon the downs, and pipe abroad, Tending their flocks and cattle on the plains? Ah, sweet Content! where dost thou safely rest? In heaven, with angels, which the praises sing Of Him that made, and rules at His behest, The minds and hearts of every living thing? Ah, sweet Content! where doth thine harbour hold? Is it in churches, with religious men, Which please the gods with prayers manifold, And in their studies meditate it then? Whether thou dost in Be where thou wilt! 1 the laurel. heaven, or earth appear; Thou wilt not harbour here! 2 the pine-tree. "J. C." BEAUTY AND TIME. From Alcilia: Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1595. THAT thing is Beauty? "Nature's dearest Minion!" WHAT "The Snare of Youth! like the inconstant moon Waxing and waning!" "Error of Opinion!" "A Morning's Flower, that withereth ere noon!" "A swelling Fruit! no sooner ripe, than rotten!" "Which sickness makes forlorn, and time forgotten!" The time will come when, looking in a glass, These cheeks were wont more fresh and fair to be! Though thou be fair, think Beauty but a blast! Thy large smooth forehead, wrinkled shall appear! And yield more cause of terror than delight! THOMAS HEYWOOD. (1575?-1650?) These are songs in the drama of the Rape of Lucrece, 1608 (acted 1605), accessible in the Mermaid edition of Heywood's Best Plays, or in the collected edition of his Dramatic Works (in six volumes, London, 1874). PACK CLOUDS AWAY. PACK clouds away, and welcome day, Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft, Wake, from thy nest, robin redbreast, SONG OF THE BELL. COME, list and hark; The bell doth toll, For some but now Departing soul. And was not that Some ominous fowl Crow, or screech Owl? The wild wolf howl In this black night That seems to scowl. THOMAS DEKKER. (1570?-1641.) The first two songs are from the Shoemaker's Holiday, acted 1599. The next two occur in the Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissell, acted 1599, which was only written in part by Dekker, and possibly they are not by Dekker. The music of the first and fourth is given in Chappell's Old English Popular Music, and in Hullah's Golden Treasury Song Book. "The Gifts of Fortune and Cupid" is found in the Sun's Darling, a Moral Masque, by Ford and Dekker, acted 1624, which however is probably an adaptation of Dekker's Phaeton, a play of much earlier date. Dekker probably wrote the song. Dekker's Dramatic Works were collected into four volumes in 1873; they were also edited by Mr. Bullen in 1887. TROLL THE BOWL! OLD'S the wind, and wet's the rain, COLD'S Saint Hugh be our good speed! Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Troll the bowl, the jolly nut-brown bowl, |