When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Between the acres of the rye, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, In spring time, etc. And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino; In spring time, etc. 1599? 1623 5 ΙΟ 115 O MISTRESS MINE, WHERE ARE YOU ROAMING O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, Trip no further, pretty weeting; Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter: What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; 1600? 1623. COME AWAY, COME AWAY, DEATH Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. 5 ΙΟ My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet 5 My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, ΙΟ 1600? To weep there! 15 1623. HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE KNOW How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon. He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. White his shroud as the mountain snow, Larded with sweet flowers, Which bewept to the grave did go 1602? With true-love showers. 1603. AND WILL HE NOT COME AGAIN And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead: Go to thy death-bed; 5 ΙΟ 5 His beard was as white as snow, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha' mercy on his soul! 1602? 1604. ΙΟ 1603. TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. WITCHES' INCANTATION 1623. First Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed. Second Witch. Thrice and cnce the hedge-pig whined. Third Witch. Harpier cries, ""T is time, 't is time." In the poisoned entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot. All. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, 5 5 ΤΟ 15 Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble; 20 Third Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Second Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. 1606? 1623. COME, THOU MONARCH OF THE VINE Come, thou monarch of the vine, With thy grapes our hairs be crowned: 5 Cup us, till the world go round! 1608? 1623. HARK! HARK! THE LARK Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin 1610-11? Arise, arise! 1623. 5 FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT O' TH' SUN Fear no more the heat o' th' sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: Fear no more the frown o' th' great; To thee the reed is as the oak: Fear no more the lightning-flash, Nor th' all-dreaded thunder-stone; Thou hast finished joy and moan: No exorciser harm thee! Nor no witchcraft charm thee! Nothing ill come near thee! 5 10 15 20 |
