EDMUND SPENSER
Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine,
With Gelhflowers; Bring Coronations, and Sops-in-wine
Worne of Paramoures:
Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies, And Cowslips, and Kingcups, and loved Lillics:
The pretie Pawnee,
And the Chevisaunce, Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice.
Now ryse up, Elisa, decked as thou art
In royall aray; And now ye da in tie Damsells may depart
Eche one her way.
I feare I have troubled your troupes to longe: Let dame Elisa thanke you for her song:
And if you come hether
When Damsines I gether, I will part them all you among.
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T TNHAPPY Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, \*J Make thy belfe fluttrmg wings of thy fast flying
Thought, and fly forth unto my Love, whcrsoever she be. Whether lying rcastle&sc in heavy bed, or else
Sitting so cheerelebse at the chcerfull boord, or else Playing alone carelcbse on her heavenhe Virginals, f in Bed, tell her that my eyes can take no rest;
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