Henry Lawes, Among the myrtles as I walkd

(Ob MS Don. c. 57, fol. 97)

Robert Herrick

Theorbo or
Archlute
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Editorial
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walkd

Love and

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thus intertalked.

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Tell

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me,

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distress,

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shepherdess.

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2007 Gordon J. Callon

Henry Lawes, Among the myrtles as I walkd

(Ob MS Don. c. 57, fol. 97), 2

2. Thou fool, said Love, knowst thou not this?

In every thing thats good she is.
In yonder tulip go and seek,
There thou mayst find her lip and cheek.

3. In that enameled pansy by,

There thou mayst find her curious eye.
In bloom of peach, in roses bud,
There wave the streams of her blood.

4. Tis true, said I, and thereupon

I went to pluck one by one
To make of parts an union,
But on a sudden all were gone.

5. At which I stoppd. Said Love, These be

The true resemblances of thee,
For as these flowrs thy joys must die
And in the turning of an eye.
And all thy hopes of her must wither
Like these short sweets eer knit together.

2007 Gordon J. Callon