Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare ... - Softcover

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But shall I go mourn for that, my dear ? The pale moon shines by night: And when I wander here and there, I then do most go right. If tinkers may have leave to live And bear the sow-skin budget, Then my account I well may give And in the stocks avouch it. Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad, tires in a mile-a. PEDLAR'S CRIES I" AWN as white as driven snow ; Cypress black as e'er was crow ; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears : Pins and poking-sticks of steel, What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come ; come buy, come buy Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buv. Will you buy any tape, Or lace for your cape, My dainty duck, my dear-a ? Any silk, any thread, Any toys for your head, Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a ? Come to the pedlar ; Money's a medler That doth utter all men's ware-a. BACCHANALIAN SONG /OME, thou Monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne ! In thy fats our cares be drown'd, With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd : Cup us, till the world go round, Cup us, till the world go round-4 A COUNTRY FELLOW'S SONG "PO nothing but eat, and make good cheer, And praise God for the merry year ; When flesh is cheap and females dear, And lusty lads roam here and there So merrily, And ever among so merrily. Be merry, be merry, my wife has all; For women are shrews, both short and tall: Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, And welcome merry Shrove-tide :— Be merry, be merry ! A cup of wine that's brisk and fine, And drink unto the leman mine; An...