 | English poetry - 1814 - 280 pages
...King upon his beds of down, More sounder too : For cares cause Kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary Shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah...then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd swain? Thus with his wife he spends the year as blithe, As... | |
 | Excerpta Tudoriana - English poetry - 1814 - 350 pages
...King upon his beds of down, More sounder too : For cares cause Kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary Shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah...then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd swain? Thus with his wife he spends the year as blithe, As... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 338 pages
...king upon his beds of down ; More sounder too, For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Tlms with his wife he spends the year, as blithe As doth the king at every tide or sith ;* And blither... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...too, For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, When shepherds laugh and love upon the land : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? HEXAMETRA ALEXIS IN LAUDEM ROSAMUNDS. OFT have I heard my lief Coridon report on a love-day, When... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...too, For kings have many griefs affects to move, Where shepherds have no greater grief than love : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires...do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? Upon his couch of straw he sleeps as sound, As doth the king upon his beds of down ; More sounder... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...king upon his beds of down, More bounder too : For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain t Thus with his wife he spends the year as blithe As... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires tical rights, mount syth, And blither too : For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, When shepherds laugh, and love... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...the king upon his bed of down, More sounder too: For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to splll, Where weary shepherds lie and snort -their fill: Ah...then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swainl Thus with his wife he spends the year as blithe As... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain 7 Thus with his wife he spends the year as blithe As doth the king at every tide or syth, And blither too: For kings have wars and broils to take in hand, When shepherds laugh, and love... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 200 pages
...king upon his bed of down, More sounder too ; For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill ; Ah then, ah then, &c. Thus with his wife he spends his year as blithe As doth the king at every tide or syth, And blither... | |
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Ah, then ! ah, then ! If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain... 
