| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Country Nights | | By Richard Corbet (1582–1635) |
| | | THE DAMASK meadows and the crawling streams | |
| Sweeten and make soft thy dreams: | |
| The purling springs, groves, birds, and well-weaved bowers, | |
| With fields enamellèd with flowers, | |
| Present thee shapes, while phantasy discloses | 5 |
| Millions of lilies mixt with roses. | |
| Then dream thou hearest the lamb with many a bleat | |
| Wooed to come suck the milky teat; | |
| Whilst Faunus in the vision vows to keep | |
| From ravenous wolf the woolly sheep; | 10 |
| With thousand such enchanting dreams, which meet | |
| To make sleep not so sound as sweet. | |
| Nor can these figures so thy rest endear | |
| As not to up when chanticleer | |
| Speaks the last watch, but with the dawn dost rise | 15 |
| To work, but first to sacrifice: | |
| Making thy peace with heaven for some late fault, | |
| With holy meat and crackling salt. | | | | |
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