The Roxburghe ballads . laimants of bays !—Evermore droning a dismal tune, Such as all courage and mirth ouhveighs :Give us a Lyric of Roses and June ! Sing, if you please, of Italian cities, Where we of old used to linger and gaze,Floating in gondola nightly, as fit is, While Bella-Donna from balcony plays ; Bold were the hand that dared to raiseVeil meant to shelter her cheek from the moon : Surely a smile for one moment strays ?Give us a Lyric of Roses and June ! Sing not of London, where Catchpole or writ is, Usurers cobweb each May-fly betrays ;Fortune is fickle, since nobody pities Thirs
The Roxburghe ballads . laimants of bays !—Evermore droning a dismal tune, Such as all courage and mirth ouhveighs :Give us a Lyric of Roses and June ! Sing, if you please, of Italian cities, Where we of old used to linger and gaze,Floating in gondola nightly, as fit is, While Bella-Donna from balcony plays ; Bold were the hand that dared to raiseVeil meant to shelter her cheek from the moon : Surely a smile for one moment strays ?Give us a Lyric of Roses and June ! Sing not of London, where Catchpole or writ is, Usurers cobweb each May-fly betrays ;Fortune is fickle, since nobody pities Thirsty poor souls, or their reckoning pays. Hold we the clue to Lifts tangled maze ?None save the Minstrel can guide men soon To a Bower of Bliss amid hour is or fays :Give us a Lyric of Roses and June. Live your true life in the Midsummer rays, Prize Love the best, in your manhoods noon ;He is a fool who sings not or says, Give us a Lyric of Roses and June ! Ye EDITOR. iao;rtmrgl)e 25alla&s. FRONTISPIECE TO PART [ (See pp. 32s, 429, 452-) T N Summer time, when flowers do spring, -*- And birds sit on each tree, Let Lords and Knights say what they will, Theres none so merry as Will and Moll, with Harry and Doll,And Tom and bonny Bettie : Oh ! hcnu they do jei-k it, caper andfirk it,Under the Greenwood-tree ! Our Musick is a little can so sweetly play,We hire Old Hal from Whitsuntide Till latter Lam?? Sabbath days and Evning-prayer comes he ; And (Inn do we skip it, caper and trip it,Under the Grecnxoood-tree I — The West Country Delight. HHIugtrating tge la$t gearg of tlje &tuart& EDITED,WITH SPECIAL INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES, BY J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH, , Cantab., Author of Karls Legacy, 1868, and Cavalier Lyrics, 1888; Editor of four reprinted Drolleries of the Restoration ; of The Bagford Ballads and Amanda Group of Bagford Poems ; The Two Earliest Quartos of A Midsummer Nights Dream, 1600: ETC. WITH HIS COPIES OF ORIG
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