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Название: The Golden Treasury

Автор: Various

Издательство: Bookwire

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">       A belt of straw and ivy-buds

       With coral clasps and amber studs:

       And if these pleasures may thee move,

       Come live with me and be my Love.

       Thy silver dishes for thy meat

       As precious as the gods do eat,

       Shall on an ivory table be

       Prepared each day for thee and me.

       The shepherd swains shall dance and sing

       For thy delight each May-morning:

       If these delights thy mind may move,

       Then live with me and be my Love.

       C. MARLOWE.

      6. A MADRIGAL.

       Crabbed Age and Youth

       Cannot live together:

       Youth is full of pleasance,

       Age is full of care;

       Youth like summer morn,

       Age like winter weather;

       Youth like summer brave,

       Age like winter bare:

       Youth is full of sport,

       Age's breath is short,

       Youth is nimble, Age is lame:

       Youth is hot and bold,

       Age is weak and cold;

       Youth is wild, and Age is tame:—

       Age, I do abhor thee,

       Youth, I do adore thee;

       O! my Love, my Love is young!

       Age, I do defy thee—

       O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,

       For methinks thou stay'st too long.

       W. SHAKESPEARE.

      7.

       Under the greenwood tree

       Who loves to lie with me,

       And tune his merry note

       Unto the sweet bird's throat—

       Come hither, come hither, come hither!

       Here shall we see

       No enemy

       But winter and rough weather.

       Who doth ambition shun

       And loves to live i' the sun,

       Seeking the food he eats

       And pleased with what he gets—

       Come hither, come hither, come hither!

       Here shall he see

       No enemy

       But winter and rough weather.

       W. SHAKESPEARE.

      8.

       It was a lover and his lass

       With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonino!

       That o'er the green cornfield did pass,

       In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,

       When birds do sing hey ding a ding:

       Sweet lovers love the Spring.

       Between the acres of the rye

       These pretty country folks would lie:

       This carol they began that hour,

       How that life was but a flower:

       And therefore take the present time

       With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonino!

       For love is crownéd with the prime

       In spring time, the only pretty ring time,

       When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;

       Sweet lovers love the Spring.

       W. SHAKESPEARE.

      9. PRESENT IN ABSENCE.

       Absence, hear thou my protestation

       Against thy strength,

       Distance, and length:

       Do what thou canst for alteration:

       For hearts of truest mettle

       Absence doth join, and Time doth settle.

       Who loves a mistress of such quality,

       He soon hath found

       Affection's ground

       Beyond time, place, and all mortality.

       To hearts that cannot vary

       Absence is Presence, Time doth tarry.

       By absence this good means I gain,

       That I can catch her,

       Where none can watch her,

       In some close corner of my brain:

       There I embrace and kiss her,

       And so I both enjoy and miss her.

       ANON.

      10. ABSENCE.

       Being your slave what should I do but tend

       Upon the hours and times of your desire?

       I have no precious time at all to spend,

       Nor services to do, till you require:

       Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour

       Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,

       Nor think the bitterness of absence sour

       When you have bid your servant once adieu:

       Nor dare I question with my jealous thought

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