| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Phillis Inamorata | | By Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) |
| | | COME, 1 be my valentine! | |
| I’ll gather eglantine, | |
| Cowslips and sops-in-wine, | |
| With fragrant roses. | |
| Down by thy Phillis sit, | 5 |
| She will white lilies get, | |
| And daffadilies fit | |
| To make thee posies. | |
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| I have a milk-white lamb, | |
| New-taken from the dam, | 10 |
| It comes where’er I am | |
| When I call ‘Willy:’ | |
| I have a wanton kid | |
| Under my apron hid, | |
| A colt that ne’er was rid, | 15 |
| A pretty filly. | |
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| I bear in sign of love | |
| A sparrow in my glove, | |
| And in my breast a dove, | |
| This shall all be thine: | 20 |
| Besides of sheep a flock, | |
| Which yieldeth many a lock, | |
| And this shall be thy stock: | |
| Come be my valentine! | |
| | | Note 1. First printed by Mr. Bullen in his Speculum Amantis, from Harl. MS., 4955, fol. 146. [back] | | |
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