Anonymous. Fair Hebe. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Fair Hebe

Anonymous


FAIR 1 Hebe, when dame Flora meets,
She trips and leaps as gallants do;
Up to the hills and down again
To the vallies runs she to and fro.
But out, alas! when frosty locks	5
Begirds the head with cark and care;
Peace! laugh no more, let pranks go by,
Slow-crawling age forbids such ware.

Note 1. From Thomas Bateson’s First Set of English Madrigals, 1604. [back]