Truth by her own simplicity is kno… Falsehood by varnish and vermilion…

Open thy gates To him who weeping waits, And might come in, But that held back by sin. Let mercy be

What though the sea be calm? Tru… Ships have been drown’d, where lat…

Though hourly comforts from the go… No life is yet life-proof from mis…

What needs complaints, When she a place Has with the race Of saints? In endless mirth,

Charms, that call down the moon fr… On this sick youth work your encha… Bind up his senses with your numbe… As to entrance his pain, or cure h… Fall gently, gently, and a-while h…

Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture her’s, I’m pleased wi… Or let her tongue be still, or sti…

HERE a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall

Fame’s pillar here at last we set, Out—during marble, brass or jet; Charmed and enchanted so

These springs were maidens once th… But lost to that they most approve… My story tells, by Love they were Turn’d to these springs which we s… The pretty whimpering that they ma…

The Hag is astride, This night for to ride, The devil and she together; Through thick and through thin, Now out, and then in,

Honour to you who sit Near to the well of wit, And drink your fill of it! Glory and worship be To you, sweet Maids, thrice three…

Come thou, who art the wine and wi… Of all I’ve writ; The grace, the glory, and the best Piece of the rest; Thou art of what I did intend

Down with the rosemary, and so Down with the bays and misletoe; Down with the holly, ivy, all Wherewith ye dress’d the Christma… That so the superstitious find

SWEET western wind, whose luck i…    Made rival with the air, To give Perenna’s lip a kiss,    And fan her wanton hair: Bring me but one, I’ll promise th…