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 And Shakespeare thou, whose hony-flowing Vaine,

(Pleasing the World) thy Praises doth obtaine.

Whose Venus, and whose Lucrece (sweete, and chaste)

Thy Name in fames immortall Booke haue plac't.

Liue euer you, at least in Fame hue euer:

Well may the Bodye dye, but Fame dies neuer.



S it fell vpon a Day,

In the merrie Month of May,

Sitting in a pleasant shade,

Which a groue of Myrtles made,

Beastes did leape, and Birds did sing,

Trees did grow, and Plants did spring:

Euery thing did banish mone,

Saue the Nightingale alone.

Shee (poore Bird) as all forlorne,

Leand her Breast vp-till a Thorne,

And there sung the dolefulst Ditty,

That to heare it was great Pitty.

Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry

Teru Teru, by and by:

That to heare her so complaine,

Scarce I could from Teares refraine:

For her griefes so liuely showne,

Made me thinke vpon mine owne.

Ah (thought I) thou mournst in vaine;

None takes Pitty on thy paine:

Senslesse Trees, they cannot heere thee;

Ruthlesse Beares, they wil not cheer thee.

King Pandion, hee is dead:

All thy friends are lapt in Lead.

All thy fellow Birds doe singe,

Carelesse of thy sorrowing.