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But time drives flocks from field to fold. 

 When rivers rage, and rucks grow cold. 

 Then Philomel become th dumb. 

 And age complains of care to come. 



The flowers do fade, and wanton flelds 

 To wayward winter reckoning yields, 

 Jl homy tongue, a heart of gall. 

 Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 



Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, 

 Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, 

 Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten. 

 In folly ripe, in reason rotten. 



Thy belt of straiv^and ivy-buds. 

 Thy coral clasps and amber studs, 

 All these in me no means can move 

 To come to thee, and be thy love. 



( What, should we talk of dainties then. 

 Of better meat than'sfit for men 7 

 These are but vain ; that's only good 

 Which God hath blest, and sent for food.) 



known to have been made in three copies ; and Percy {Rel., Ser. L, B. 2, 

 12), that " Ignoto" is known to have been a signature of Raleigh's, and 

 that there is another imitation in England's Helicon of the first song, 

 beginning — 



" Come live with me and be my dear, 

 And we will revel all the year," &c. ; 



and that on the whole he (Percy) is inclined to attribute this to Raleigh. 

 Nicholas thinks that they are both Shakspeare's ; Hannah leans to the 

 side of Raleigh, because of " the general consent in his favour," but is 

 in doubt, as he thinks the signature " Ignoto" inconsistent, if Raleigh 

 were the author. I go with the popular majority in this instance. 

 Walton added the sixth verse in a note to the second edition ; and it 

 bears hlA impress so strongly that we may suppose it to be his own. 



There is great skill shown in making the daughter, who is " in her 

 golden age," sing the first song, and the mother, " when the cares of the 

 world began to take hold upon her," the second ; it is the subsidence 



of youthful romance into the sober common sense of riper years. 



Am. Ed. 



