| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Come Buy, Come Buy | | By William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | From “The Winter’s Tale,” Act IV. Scene 3 |
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LAWN as white as driven snow; | |
| Cypress black as e’er was crow; | |
| Gloves as sweet as damask roses; | |
| Masks for faces, and for noses; | |
| Bugle-bracelet, necklace-amber, | 5 |
| Perfume for a lady’s chamber: | |
| Golden quoifs and stomachers, | |
| For my lads to give their dears; | |
| Pins and poking-sticks of steel, | |
| What maids lack from head to heel: | 10 |
| Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; | |
| Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: | |
| Come buy. | | | |
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