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farewell to my fond desires. I know Momus will look at it narrowly, and say there is too little cloth; Zoilus with his squint eyes will find fault with the shape, so shall I be bitten both for matter and method.. Well, I care not though they be crabbed, if I find other Gentlemen courteous: let an ass strike me, I will never lift my heel; and if Diogenes be cynical, I will shake off his frumps with Aristippus. Because that Gentlemen have past over works with silence, and have rid me without a spur, I have (like blind Bayard) plodded forward, and set forth many Pamphlets full of much Love, and little Scholarism: well though Hipanchian could not warble like Orpheus, yet he could pipe, and though Ennius wrote a rough style, yet he was a Poet: the flint is a stone as well as the diamond, and I may term myself a writer, though an unskilfull inditer. What? Every one dips not his finger with Homer in the bason, nor all mens' works cannot be excellent. Howsoever, I have pleased some, and so I pass it over. But henceforth I mean to offend few for as this is the first of my reformed passions, so

this is the last of my trifling Pamphlets: so farewell.

ROBERT GREENE."

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

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Alas! how wander I amidst these woods, 57
A man of late was put to death, 17
Ambition with the eagle loves to build, 53
Amongst the groves, the woods, and thicks, 21
And now I have, as 'twas thy kind desire, 50
A silly Shepherd lately sate, 78

Beauty, alas! where wast thou born, 9

Cease now, Delight! give Sorrow leave to speak;98
Devoted love to God, to man, to thee, 48
Disdain that so doth fill me, 27
Fair in a morn, O fairest Morn! 74

Fair crystal eye, remain still fierce and cruel! 52
First shall the heavens want starry light; 60
From deep gulf of misfortune, 22

Good Muse, rock me a-sleep, 72

Hadst thou been born whereas perpetual cold, 59
I dwell in Grace's court, 92

If it be true that heaven's eternal course, 58
If that the sick man groan, 95

If, warned once, the Ethnics thus repent, 6
I joy not in no earthly bliss; 100

I muse to see the modern wanton Muse, 51
Iniquity seeks out companions still, ♦
In the merry month of May, 69

It was near a thicky shade, 109

Like Hermit poor, in pensive place obscure, 37
Like to the clear in highest sphere, 61
Like to Diana in her summer weed, 68
Live ever, valorous renowned knights: 17
Look, London, look! with inward eyes behold, 8
Lo, thou art fair, my Love; lo, thou art fair; 108
Lord, how long, how long wilt thou, 24
Muses no more, but Mazes be your names, 39
Muses, that sing Love's sensual emperie, 104
My mind to me a kingdom is; 101

My sons, behold what portion I do give! 65
O could the mighty but give bounds to pride, 27
Of all chaste birds the Phoenix doth excel; 64
Of late what time the Bear turn'd round, 29
Oft have I heard my life, Coridon, report on a
love-day, 115

O heavenly God, O Father dear, 14

O Lord my God, I wandered have, 105
On a hill there grows a dower, 70
On the plains, Fairy trains, 97

Say, Shepherd's Boy, what makes thee greet so sore? 41

Say, dainty Dames, shall we go play, 97

Say that I should say, I love ye? 81
Shall we go dance the hay? The hay? 80
Sister, awake! The day her light discloses; 99
Sitting late with sorrows sleeping, 18
Sleep, Death's ally, oblivion of tears, 16
Some say love, 38

Sweet-heart, arise! why do you sleep, 96
Sweet Phillis, if a silly swain, 77

Tempe, the grove, where dark Hecate doth keep

her abiding; 116

The Lord my pastor is; he tends me heedlfuly;25 These Psalms which from their native sense

exil'd, 49

The silent shade had shadowed every tree, 122 Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white, 36 Thou, God, that rul'st and reign'st in light, 106 Thou shalt not love me; neither shall those eyes,

35

Thrice toss those oaken ashes in the air; 36
Virtue can bear, what can on Virtue fall; 31
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; 39
Wend on in peace, and prosecute this course, 3
We Shepherds sing, we pipe, and play; 98
What are my sheep, without their wonted food?
54

What pleasure have great princes, 103
When disobedience reigneth in the child, 5
When merry Autumn in her prime, 118
When Thoralis delights to walk, 98

When tender ewes, brought home with evening sun, 66

Where servants against masters do rebel, 6 Where whoredom reigns, there murder follows

fast, 9

Whither so fast? See how the kindly flowers, 99 Who life doth loath, and longs Death to behold,

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Woe to the trains of women's foolish lust, 7

End of the First Volume.

Printed by Johnson and Warwick,
At the private Press of LEE PRIORY, Kent.

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