 | Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...fire, And fhepherds have nam'd her Content. SONG LVI. PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. -s BY NICHOLAS BRETON*. IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood fide When as May was in his pride, There I fpied, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...By thy comfort have been seen Dead men brought to lite again. PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. [From the same.] IN the merry month of may, In a morn by break of day, With a troop of damsels playing, Forth I ycxle, forsooth, a maying, When anon, by a wood side,... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...thy comfort have been seen Dead men brought to life again. • Phillida and Corydon. [From the same.] IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood side, When as May was in his pride: There I spied, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Excerpta Tudoriana - English poetry - 1814 - 350 pages
...For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity, Yield to Samela. PHILLIDA AND CORIDON, By Nicholas Breton. IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood-side, When as May was in his pride: There I spyed, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 280 pages
...For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity, Yield to Samela. PHILLIDA AND CORIDON. By Nicholas Breton. IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood-side, When as May was in his pride: There I spyed, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pages
...fears to die of this conceit, So kind a friend to help at last. BECKLER— l62l. PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd the wood so wide, When as May was in her pride, There I spied, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - Ballads, English - 1827 - 272 pages
...fears to die of this conceit, So kind a friend to help at last. BECKLER— 1621. PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. IN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd the wood so wide, When as May was in her pride, There I spied, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 358 pages
...and his style would not, unassisted, have gained for him. GLEE—(Page 109). Phillida and Corydon. In the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood side. When as May was in his pride: There I spied, all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...in auncient country attire." The following Torsion of the song is given in England's Helicon : — In the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walk'd by the wood-side, When as May was in his pride : There I espied all alone, Phillida... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...Mine be the gift of fruit and shade ; Your songs be my reward. BRETON'S •• PHILLIDA AND CORYDON.' plain ; To lofty Harrow now, and now to where M day, With a troop of damsels playing, Forth I yode, forsooth, a maying ; When anon by a wood side.... | |
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Much ado there was, God wot! He would love and she would not. She said, Never man was true; He said, None was false to you. 
