| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | The Awakening | | Anonymous |
| | | ON 1 a time the amorous Silvy | |
| Said to her shepherd, ‘Sweet, how do ye? | |
| Kiss me this once and then God be with ye, | |
| My sweetest dear! | |
| Kiss me this once and then God be with ye, | 5 |
| For now the morning draweth near.’ | |
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| With that, her fairest bosom showing, | |
| Op’ning her lips, rich perfumes blowing, | |
| She said, ‘Now kiss me and be going, | |
| My sweetest dear! | 10 |
| Kiss me this once and then be going, | |
| For now the morning draweth near.’ | |
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| With that the shepherd waked from sleeping, | |
| And spying where the day was peeping, | |
| He said, ‘Now take my soul in keeping, | 15 |
| My sweetest dear! | |
| Kiss me and take my soul in keeping, | |
| Since I must go, now day is near.’ | |
| | Note 1. From John Attye’s First Book of Airs, 1622. “Gracefully rendered from the French of Pierre Guedron:| | “Un jour l’amoureuse Silvie |
| Disoit, baise moy, je te prie, |
| Au berger qui seul est sa vie |
| Et son amour: |
| Baise moy, pasteur, je te prie, |
| Et te lève, car il est jour,” etc. |
| (Bullen. Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-Books.) |
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