1884Pol. Shepherdesse,

1885(A faire one are you:) well you fit our ages

1886With flowres of Winter.

1887Perd. Sir, the yeare growing ancient,

1888Not yet on summers death, nor on the birth

1889Of trembling winter, the fayrest flowres o'th season

1890Are our Carnations, and streak'd Gilly-vors,

1891(Which some call Natures bastards) of that kind

1892Our rusticke Gardens barren, and I care not

1893To get slips of them.

1894Pol. Wherefore (gentle Maiden)

1895Do you neglect them.

1896Perd. For I haue heard it said,

1897There is an Art, which in their pidenesse shares

1898With great creating-Nature.

1899Pol. Say there be:

1900Yet Nature is made better by no meane,

1901But Nature makes that Meane: so ouer that Art,

1902(Which you say addes to Nature) is an Art

1903That Nature makes: you see (sweet Maid) we marry

1904A gentler Sien, to the wildest Stocke,

1905And make conceyue a barke of baser kinde

1906By bud of Nobler race. This is an Art

1907Which do's mend Nature: change it rather, but

1908The Art it selfe, is Nature.

1909Perd. So it is.

1910Pol. Then make you Garden rich in Gilly' vors,

1911And do not call them bastards.

1912Perd. Ile not put

1913The Dible in earth, to set one slip of them:

1914No more then were I painted, I would wish

1915This youth should say 'twer well: and onely therefore

1916Desire to breed by me. Here's flowres for you:

1917Hot Lauender, Mints, Sauory, Mariorum,

1918The Mary-gold, that goes to bed with' Sun,

1919And with him rises, weeping: These are flowres

1920Of middle summer, and I thinke they are giuen

1921To men of middle age. Y'are very welcome.

1922Cam. I should leaue grasing, were I of your flocke,

1923And onely liue by gazing.

1924Perd. Out alas:

1925You'ld be so leane, that blasts of Ianuary

1926Would blow you through and through. Now (my fairst (Friend,

1927I would I had some Flowres o'th Spring, that might

1928Become your time of day: and yours, and yours,

1929That weare vpon your Virgin-branches yet

1930Your Maiden-heads growing: O Proserpina,

1931For the Flowres now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall

1932From Dysses Waggon: Daffadils,

1933That come before the Swallow dares, and take

1934The windes of March with beauty: Violets (dim,

1935But sweeter then the lids of Iuno's eyes,

1936Or Cytherea's breath) pale Prime-roses,

1937That dye vnmarried, ere they can behold

1938Bright Phoebus in his strength (a Maladie

1939Most incident to Maids:) bold Oxlips, and

1940The Crowne Imperiall: Lillies of all kinds,

1941(The Flowre-de-Luce being one.) O, these I lacke,

1942To make you Garlands of) and my sweet friend,

1943To strew him o're, and ore.

1944Flo. What? like a Coarse?

1945Perd. No, like a banke, for Loue to lye, and play on:

1946Not like a Coarse: or if: not to be buried,

1947But quicke, and in mine armes. Come, take your flours,

1948Me thinkes I play as I haue seene them do

1949In Whitson-Pastorals: Sure this Robe of mine

1950Do's change my disposition:

1951Flo. What you do,

1952Still betters what is done. When you speake (Sweet)

1953I'ld haue you do it euer: When you sing,

1954I'ld haue you buy, and sell so: so giue Almes,

1955Pray so: and for the ord'ring your Affayres,

1956To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you

1957A waue o'th Sea, that you might euer do

1958Nothing but that: moue still, still so:

1959And owne no other Function. Each your doing,

1960(So singular, in each particular)

1961Crownes what you are doing, in the present deeds,

1962That all your Actes, are Queenes.

1963Perd. O Doricles,

1964Your praises are too large: but that your youth

1965And the true blood which peepes fairely through't,

1966Do plainly giue you out an vnstain'd Shepherd

1967With wisedome, I might feare (my Doricles)

1968You woo'd me the false way.

1969Flo. I thinke you haue

1970As little skill to feare, as I haue purpose

1971To put you to't. But come, our dance I pray,

1972Your hand (my Perdita:) so Turtles paire

1973That neuer meane to part.

1974Perd. Ile sweare for 'em.

1975Pol. This is the prettiest Low-borne Lasse, that euer

1976Ran on the greene-sord: Nothing she do's, or seemes

1977But smackes of something greater then her selfe,

1978Too Noble for this place.

1979Cam. He tels her something

1980That makes her blood looke on't: Good sooth she is

1981The Queene of Curds and Creame.

1982Clo. Come on: strike vp.

1983Dorcas. Mopsa must be your Mistris: marry Garlick

1984to mend her kissing with.

1985Mop. Now in good time.

1986Clo. Not a word, a word, we stand vpon our manners,

1987Come, strike vp.

1990Pol. Pray good Shepheard, what faire Swaine is this,

1991Which dances with your daughter?

1992Shep. They call him Doricles, and boasts himselfe

1993To haue a worthy Feeding; but I haue it

1994Vpon his owne report, and I beleeue it:

1995He lookes like sooth: he sayes he loues my daughter,

1996I thinke so too; for neuer gaz'd the Moone

1997Vpon the water, as hee'l stand and reade

1998As 'twere my daughters eyes: and to be plaine,

1999I thinke there is not halfe a kisse to choose

2000Who loues another best.

2001Pol. She dances featly.

2002Shep. So she do's any thing, though I report it

2003That should be silent: If yong Doricles

2004Do light vpon her, she shall bring him that

2005Which he not dreames of. Enter Seruant.

2006Ser. O Master: if you did but heare the Pedler at the

2007doore, you would neuer dance againe after a Tabor and

2008Pipe: no, the Bag-pipe could not moue you: hee singes

2009seuerall Tunes, faster then you'l tell money: hee vtters

2010them as he had eaten ballads, and all mens eares grew to

2011his Tunes.

2012Clo. He could neuer come better: hee shall come in:

2013I loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter

2014merrily set downe: or a very pleasant thing indeede, and

2015sung lamentably.