...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 6 As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrdes made, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring; Every thing...

...(una lode del denaro, 1598). Due Poems in Divers Humors (1598) — la più nota délie quali era l'ode "As it fell upon a day/ In the merry month of May" — apparvero in The Passionate Pilgrim* ( 1 599) e furono in passato attribuite a Shakespeare. Barnfield...

...02; all EH 20 thy] 02; my oy, EH includes five additional stanzas here 2O As it fell upon a day, ln the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade,...myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, 5 Trees did grow, and plants did spring. Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She...

...Lover's Melancholy, where Men'aphon is supposed to tell it to Ame'thus (1628). Nightingale and the Thorn. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...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...

...or imitation. And turning to Barnfield's contributions to PP, we find that one of his poems, the ode 'As it fell upon a day/ In the merry month of May' (number 20), could well be placed in that category also, being so obviously related to Shakespeare's...

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