| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Doron’s Jig | | By Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
| | | THROUGH the shrubs as I can crack | |
| For my lambs, little ones, | |
| ’Mongst many pretty ones,— | |
| Nymphs I mean, whose hair was black | |
| As the crow: | 5 |
| Like the snow | |
| Her face and browès shined I ween!— | |
| I saw a little one, | |
| A bonny pretty one, | |
| As bright, buxom, and as sheen | 10 |
| As was she | |
| On her knee | |
| That lulled the god, whose arrow warms | |
| Such merry little ones, | |
| Such fair-faced pretty ones | 15 |
| As dally in love’s chiefest harms: | |
| Such was mine, | |
| Whose grey eyne | |
| Made me love. I gan to woo | |
| This sweet little one, | 20 |
| This bonny pretty one. | |
| I wooed hard a day or two, | |
| Till she bade | |
| ‘Be not sad, | |
| Woo no more, I am thine own, | 25 |
| Thy dearest little one, | |
| Thy truest pretty one.’ | |
| Thus was faith and firm love shown, | |
| As behoves | |
| Shepherds’ loves. | 30 | | | |
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