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| HARK all you ladies that do sleep! | |
| The Fairy Queen PROSERPINA | |
| Bids you awake! and pity them that weep! | |
| You may do in the dark | |
| What the day doth forbid; | 5 |
| Fear not the dogs that bark, | |
| Night will have all hid. | |
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| But if you let your lovers moan; | |
| The Fair Queen PROSERPINA | |
| Will send abroad her fairies every one: | 10 |
| That shall pinch black and blue | |
| Your white hands and fair arms; | |
| That did not kindly rue | |
| Your paramours’ harms. | |
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| In myrtle arbours on the downs, | 15 |
| The Fairy Queen PROSERPINA | |
| This night by moonshine, leading merry rounds, | |
| Holds watch with sweet LOVE, | |
| Down the dale, up the hill. | |
| No plaints nor griefs may move | 20 |
| Their holy vigil. | |
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| All you that will hold watch with LOVE, | |
| The Fairy Queen PROSERPINA | |
| Will make you fairer than DIANA’s dove. | |
| Roses red, lilies white, | 25 |
| And the clear damask hue; | |
| Shall on your cheeks alight. | |
| LOVE will adorn you. | |
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| All you that love! or loved before! | |
| The Fairy Queen PROSERPINA | 30 |
| Bids you increase that loving humour more! | |
| They that have not yet fed | |
| On delight amorous; | |
| She vows that they shall lead | |
| Apes in Avernus. | 35 |
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