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Pise. No, I thank you ; but, I pray, do us a 

 courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in no- 

 thing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in 

 your debt : it is but to sing us a song that was sung by 

 your daughter when F, last, past over this meadow, 

 about eight or nine days since. 



Milk-w. What song was it, I pray? Was if, Come 

 shepherds deck your herds? or, As at noon Dulcina 

 rested? or, Phillida flouts me ? or, Chevy Chace? 

 or, Johnny Armstrong ? or, Troy Town * ? 



Pise. No, it is none of those ; it is a song that your 

 daughter sung the first part, and you sung the answer 

 to it. 



Milk-w. O, I know it now. I learned the first part 

 in my golden age, when I was about the age of my poor 

 daughter ; and the latter part, which indeed tits me best 

 now, but two or throe years ago, when the cares of the 

 world began to take hold of me : but you shall, God 

 willing, he ir them both ; and, sung as well as we can, 

 for we both love anglers. Come, Maudlin! sing the first 

 part to the gentlemen, with a merry heart; and I'll sing 

 the second, when you have done. 



THE MILK MAID'S SOXG. 



Come live with me, and be my love ; 

 And we will all the pleasures prove, 

 That valleys, groves, or hills, or field, 

 Or woods, and steepy mountains yield, 



Where we will sit, upon the rocks, 

 And see the shepherds feed our flocks, 

 By shallow rivers ; to whose falls, 

 Melodious birds sing madrigals. 



" for little fish ivith a cane, boot, and line. His name was Tomasso Anetto % 

 " of Amam, but vulgarly called Masaniello" See the History of the 

 Revolution in Naples, by Sig. Alessandro Giraffi. 



* See the songs As at Noon, Chevy Chace, Johnny Armstrong, and Troy 

 Totun, printed, after the most authentic copies, in Percy's Reliques of and" 

 ent English Poetry. Pbillida flouts me, is to be found in an elegant col- 

 lection of songs entitled The Ifive, in four volumes small 8vo. Vol. II. 

 P. 270. 



