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To a lovely Myrtle bound, Blossoms show’ring all around, O how sick and weary I Underneath my Myrtle lie! Why should I be bound to thee, O my lovely Myrtle-tree?

[To a lovely mirtle bound Blossoms showring all around] O how sick & weary I Underneath my mirtle lie Like to dung upon the ground Underneath my mirtle bound Why should I be bound to thee O my lovely mirtle…

Thou hast a lap full of seed, And this is a fine country. Why dost thou not cast thy seed And live in it merrily? Shall I cast it on the sand And turn it into fruitful land? For on…

Why should I care for the men of thames Or the cheating waves of charter’d streams Or shrink at the little blasts of fear That the hireling blows into my ear Tho born on the cheating banks of Thames Tho…

I feard the [roughness] fury of my wind Would blight all blossoms fair & true And my sun it shind & shind And my wind it never blew But a blossom fair or true Was not found on any tree…

O lapwing! thou fliest around the heath, Nor seest the net that is spread beneath. Why dost thou not fly among the corn fields? They cannot spread nets where a harvest yields.

Silent Silent NightQuench the holy lightOf thy torches brightFor possessd of DayThousand spirits strayThat sweet joys betrayWhy should joys be sweetUsed with deceitNor with sorrows meetBut an honest joyDoes itself destroyFor a harlot coy

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. As…

I heard an Angel singing When the day was springing Mercy Pity Peace Is the worlds release Thus he sung all day Over the new mown hay Till the sun went down And haycocks looked brown I heard a Devil…

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turn’d up his eyes. I ask’d a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek she cries. As soon as I went an angel came: He wink’d at the…