To any sensual feast with thee alone: ΙΟ CXLIII Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee, So will I pray that thou mayst have thy "Will," 5 10 CXLIV Two loves I have of comfort and despair, But being both from me, both to each friend, Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, 5 IO CXLVII My love is as a fever, longing still 5 ΙΟ My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, ON A DAY, ALACK THE DAY On a day-alack the day!- Through the velvet leaves the wind, 5 All unseen, can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wished himself the heaven's breath. "Air," quoth he, "thy cheeks may blow; But, alack, my hand is sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet! Do not call it sin in me That I am forsworn for thee; Thou for whom Jove would swear And deny himself for Jove, 20 1591? 1598. WINTER When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, 5 ΙΟ And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky! That dost not bite so nigh Though thou the waters warp, 5 ΙΟ IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, |