...less than stabbing; Yet stab at thee who will, No «tab the soul can kill. [Addmt to the Nightingale,] ne in a country.' The punning allusion to Shakspcare...in Henry VI., part third — 0 tiger's heart wrapt ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her...

...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thce and be thy love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring...

...breast against a thorn," he was, of course borrowing from Richard Barnefield's ' Ode ': Everything did banish moan Save the nightingale alone. .She, poor bird, as all forlorn Lean'd her breast against a thorn, And there sang the dolefullest ditty, That to hear it was great pity. Whence did Barnefield...

...printed in Malone's ' Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare.' The sonnet commences with the words — As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May ; and, in allusion to it, in his preliminary remarks on the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' Malone says that...

...BARNFIELD. Author of several poetical volumes, published between 1594 and 1598. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her...

...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove 2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring: Every...

...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds dicT sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring:...

...in which it appears in ' The Passionate Pilgrim.' There are several variations in other copies. XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring : Everything did banish moan, . Save the nightingale alone : She, poor hird, as all forlorn, Lean'd...

...myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring : Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leau'd her breast up-till ba thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great...

...thorny brambles and embracing bushes, As fearful of him, part ; through whom he rushes. 103. Birds. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the doleful! 'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity : Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry, Tent, Teru,...