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

 Shepherds deck your herds ? or, As at noon Dulcina rested ? 

 or, Phillida flouts me? or Chevy Chace? or Johnny Arm- 

 strong ? 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 fits me best 

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

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

 ing, hear 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 SONG. 



Come live with me, and be my love, 

 And we will all the pleasure* prove. 

 That valleys, groves, or hills, or field, 

 Or woods, and sleepy 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. 



And I will make thee beds of roses ; 

 And then, a thousand fragrant posies ; 

 A cap of flowers ; and a kirtle, 

 EmbroiderM all with leaves of myrtle; 



A gown made of the finest wool, 

 Which from our pretty lambs we poll; 

 Slippers, lin'd choicely for the cold, 

 With buckles of the purest gold; 



A belt of straw and ivy-buds, 

 With coral clasps, and amber studs. 

 And if these pleasures may thee move, 

 Come live with me, and be my love, 



(1) See the songs ' As at Noon, 1 Chevy Chace' Johnny Armstrong,' and 

 Troy Town,' printed, after the most authentic copies, in Percy's Reliques of 

 Ancient English Poetry. ' Phillida floutt me" is to be found in an elegant 

 collection of songs entitled The Hive, in four volumes, small 8vo. Vol. II. 

 p,70. 



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