dates of the original editions are attached to each of the plays from which the following selections have been made.] ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE. 1584. CUPID CUPID AND CAMPASPE. UPID and my Campaspe played Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), THE SONGS OF BIRDS. WHAT bird so sings, yet so does wail? O'tis the ravished nightingale. ‘Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu,' she cries, *This exquisite little song is printed in Percy's Reliques. † Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. Ye birds SHAKESPEARE. That singing up to heaven's gate ascend. MILTON. Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat, SAPPHO AND PHAON. 1584. VULCAN'S SONG. MY shag-hair Cyclops, come, let's ply Our Lemnian hammers lustily. I swear these arrows, Through many a wanton's eye. These headed are with golden blisses, Strikes a clown dead, He falls in a trance, To see his black-brown lass not buss him, COMPLAINT AGAINST LOVE. 0 CRUEL Love, on thee I lay My curse, which shall strike blind the day; Never may sleep with velvet hand Charm these eyes with sacred wand; Thy jailors shall be hopes and fears, Thy prison mates groans, sighs, and tears, An imitation, or rather an alteration, of this song occurs in the Sun's Darling. It will be found amongst the selections from Ford and Dekker. Thy bread be frowns, thy drink be gall, Thy sleep fond dreams, thy dreams long care. Mock thee till madness strike thee dead, ENDY MION. 1591. A NIGHT CATCH. The Pages and the Constables. Watch. STAND! who goes there? 'Fore our constable here, In the name of the man in the moon. To us billmen* relate, Why you stagger so late, And how you came drunk so soon. Pages. What are ye, scabs? Watch. The watch: This the constable. Pages. A patch. Const. Knock 'em down unless they all stand; If any run away, "Tis the old watchman's play, To reach them a bill of his hand. Pages. O gentlemen, hold, Your gowns freeze with cold, And your rotten teeth dance in Then soberly let us be led. Const. Come, my brown bills, we'll roar, Omnes. And in the morning steal all to bed. *The watchmen were so called from the pole they carried with a blade at the top of it, resembling a bill or halbert. Davenant (1636) uses the term in his play of the Wits. SONG OF THE FAIRIES. Omnes. PINCH him, pinch him, black and blue, Saucy mortals must not view What the queen of stars is doing, And pinch him black Let him not lack Sharp nails to pinch him blue and red, CUPID BOUND. YES, O yes, if any maid Whom leering Cupid has betrayed O yes, O yes, has any lost A heart which many a sigh hath cost? Which as a pearl disdain does wear? Here stands the thief; let her but come Hither, and lay on him her doom. Is any one undone by fire, Being cheated of her golden sleep * Sports, dances, pastimes. Stolen by sick thoughts?-the pirate's found, APOLLO'S SONG OF DAPHNE. MY Daphne's hair is twisted gold, eyes do hold, PAN'S SONG OF SYRINX. PAN'S Syrinx was a girl indeed, Though now she's turned into a reed; |