Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music | Page 2

sing
madrigals.
There will I make thee a bed of roses,
With a thousand fragrant posies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of
myrtle.
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;

And if these pleasures may thee move,
Then live with me and be my
love.
LOVE'S ANSWER.
If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's
tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
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
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and
birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Everything
did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone:
She, poor bird, as all
forlorn,
Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn,
And there sung the
dolefull'st ditty,
That to hear it was great pity:
Fie, fie, fie, now
would she cry;
Teru, teru, by and by:
That to hear her so complain,

Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs, so lively shown,


Made me think upon mine own.
Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain;

None take pity on thy pain:
Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee;

Ruthless bears, they will not cheer thee.
King Pandion, he is dead;

All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;
All thy fellow-birds do sing,

Careless of thy sorrowing.
Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive
will pity me.
Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd,
Thou and I were both
beguil'd.
Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words
are easy like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
Every man
will be thy friend,
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if store
of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be
prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call:
And with such-like flattering,

'Pity but he were a king.'
If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him
they will entice;
If to women he be bent,
They have at
commandement:
But if fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his
great renown:
They that fawn'd on him before,
Use his company no
more.
He that is thy frend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need;
If
thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of
every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain
signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

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