SONETTO. Turne I my lookes unto the skies, He will be partner of my mone; The following is part of a Poetical Dialogue between Rosader, the unsuccessful Lover, and Rosalind. ROSADER. I pray thee Rosalind, by these sweet eyes, That staine the Sun in shine, the Moone in cleare, By By those sweet cheekes where loue incamped lies, I tempt thee Rosalind, by ruthfull plaints, Oh Rosalind, then be thou pitifull, CORIDONS SONG. A blithe and bonny country lasse, Heigh ho, bonny lasse, Sate sighing on the tender grasse, And weeping said, will none come woo me Heigh ho, a smicker swayne, That in his loue was wanton faine, With smiling lookes strait came vnto her. When as the wanton wench espide, The meanes to make herself a bride, She simpred smooth like bonny bell, The The swayne that saw her squint eide kind, His arms about her body twind, And faire lasse, how faire yee? well. The country Kit said well forsooth, But that I haue a longing tooth, If that be all, the shepheard said, He make thee wiue it, gentle maide, Hereon they kist with many an oath, And fore god Pan did plight their troth, And God send euery pretty peate, That feares to die of this conceite, EPIGRAM EPIGRAMMATISTS. I HAVE by no means exhausted the subject of rare Poetical Tracts, which are to be found, either in the Museum, or in the Collections of my friends; but wishing to exhibit to the reader as various amusement as possible, I shall close this part of my work with a brief description of some rarer Epigrammatic productions of the earliest period. 1. "THE LETTING OF HUMORS BLOOD IN THE HEAD-VAINE, with a New Morissco, daunced by Seven Satyres upon the bottom of Diogenes Tubbe. Imprinted at London, by W. White. 1611." This must have been a very popular work in its day, as there were several editions of it under various titles. The author was Samuel Rowlands. The following specimen shows how much Tarlton was praised and followed for his performance of the Clown's part. EPIG. S1. When Tarlton clown'd it in a pleasant vaine, Clownes knew the Clowne by his great clownish slop: But But now the're gulled, for present fashion sayes, EPIG. Alas, Delfridus keepes his bed, God knowes, His griefe beyond the grounds of phisicke goes, "THE MOUSE TRAP. Uni si possim placere sat est. Printed at London, for F. B. dwelling at the Flower de Luce and Crowne, in Pauls Church Yard. 1606." This collection of Epigrams is not mentioned by Warton. It is inscribed by the author "To his no little respected Friend, little John Buck, I dedicate this my little." |