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"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
Rock them, rock them, lullaby."
Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissell.
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
"Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;"
Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissell.
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
"Troll the bowl, the jolly nut-brown bowl,
And here, kind mate, to thee!
Let's sing a dirge for Saint Hugh's soul,
And down it merrily."
Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Shoemaker's Holiday (l. 9-12).
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
"Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forest's choir,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love's tale:
Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar."
Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632?), British poet. The Shoemaker's Holiday (l. 9-12).
Birds. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. |
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