| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Praise of Ceres | | By Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
| | From “The Silver Age,” Act III. Scene 1
WITH fair Ceres, Queen of Grain, | |
| The reapèd fields we roam, | |
| Each country peasant, nymph and swain, | |
| Sing their harvest home; | |
| Whilst the Queen of Plenty hallows | 5 |
| Growing fields as well as fallows. | |
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| Echo, double all your lays, | |
| Make the champians 1 sound | |
| To the Queen of Harvest’s praise, | |
| That sows and reaps our ground: | 10 |
| Ceres, Queen of Plenty, hallows | |
| Growing fields as well as fallows. | |
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