...shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee and be thy love. XXI. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...thing did banish moan , Save the nightingale alone : Shee , poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn , And there sung the dolefull'st...

...stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addrtat to the NigMngok.'} As it fell upon a dny, venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...life, exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues in tre sinjj, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Pave the nightingale alone....

...a bird of melancholy associations, or of lugubrious note, as it is in the lines which follow : — As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade, By a group of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and plants did spring...

...sweet sonnet from the Passionate Pilgrim, composed by the greatest bard of the last or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made; Lambs did leap, and birds did sing ; Trees did grow, and plants did spring. Every thing did banish...

...wocs." In The Passionate Pilgrim' he enlarges on this point : — " Everything did lanish moan, Sure the Nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up till a thorn, And there sang the dolrfttll'st ditty That to hear, it was creat pity. .... That to...

...town, Such a storm As oft twixt May and April is to see, When winds breathe sweet, unruly tho' they be. IN the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade...and plants did spring : Every thing did banish moan. SHAKSPERE. BARNEFIELD. (1598.) Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the...

...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addra» to the Nightingale.] eis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and...the race where that immortal garland is to be run fo sine, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone....

...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. [Addnat to the Nightingale.] of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays...part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and alipper Beaut* did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did groxv, anil plants did spring ; Everything di<l banish...

...fweet fonnet from the Paffionate Pilgrim, compofed by the greateft bard of the laft or any other age. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleafant made, Which a grove of myrtles made ; Lambs did leap, and birds did fing ; Trees did grow,...

...Lambs did leap, and birds did fing ; Trees did grow, and plants did fpring. Every thing did banifh moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breaft up-till a thorn ; And there fung the dolefull'ft ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Fie...