When Shepherds pipe on oaten ftraws,
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks:
When turtles tread, and rooks and daws;
And maidens bleach their fummer fmocks;
The cuckow then on every tree

Mocks married men; for thus fings he,
Cuckow!

Cuckow! cuckow! O word of fear,
Unpleafing to a married car!

WINTE R.

When ificles hang by the wall,

And Dick the fhepherd blows his nail;
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
Then nightly fings the flaring owl
Tu-whit! to-whoo!

A merry note,

While greafy Jone doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the Parfon's faw;
And birds fit brooding in the fnow,

And Marian's nofe looks red and raw;
When roafted crabs hifs in the bowl,
Then nightly fings the faring owl
Tu-whit! to-whoo!

A merry note,

While greafy Jone doth keel the pot.

Arm. The words of Mercury

Are harsh after the fongs of Apollo:

You, that way; we, this way.

[Exeunt omnes.

The End of the Second Volume.

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