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Rh These screech-owl's feathers and the prickling briar, That all thy thorny cares an end may have. Then come, you fairies, dance with me a round! Dance in a circle, let my love be centre! Melodiously breathe an enchanted sound: Melt her hard heart that some remorse may enter! In vain are all the charms I can devise; She hath an art to break them with her eyes."

Page 52. "Disdain me still."—Ascribed to Lord Pembroke in the Poems of Pembroke and Ruddier (1660); but the authorship is doubtful.

Page 64. "Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting."—Gracefully paraphrased from an Italian madrigal of Celiano:—

There is another version of this madrigal (Mr. J. M. Thomson reminds me) in Lodge's William Longbeard, 1593.

Page 68. "Those eyes that set my fancy," &c.—A free rendering of Desportes' sonnet:—

Page 71. "So saith my fair and beautiful Lycoris."—This little poem and the next are renderings of an Italian madrigal of Guarini.

Page 80. "There is a garden in her face."—This poem is set to music in Alison's Hour's Recreation, 1606, and Robert Jones' Ultimum Vale (1608). Herrick's dainty verses, "Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe! I cry," are too well known to bear repetition.