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 With orient pearl, with ruby red, With marble white, with sapphire blue, Her body every way is fed, Yet soft to touch and sweet in view: Heigh ho, fair Rosaline! Nature herself her shape admires; The gods are wounded in her sight; And Love forsakes his heavenly fires And at her eyes his brand doth light: Heigh ho, would she were mine!

Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan The absence of fair Rosaline, Since for a fair there's fairer none, Nor for her virtues so divine: Heigh ho, fair Rosaline! Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!

GEORGE PEELE

1558?-97

101. Fair and Fair

Œnone. Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be; The fairest shepherd on our green, A love for any lady.

Paris. Fair and fair, and twice so fair, As fair as any may be; Thy love is fair for thee alone And for no other lady.

Œnone. My love is fair, my love is gay, As fresh as bin the flowers in May And of my love my roundelay, My merry, merry, merry roundelay,