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RICHARD NICOLSON.

ING shepherds all, and in your roundelays,
Sing only of fair ORIANA's praise.

The gods above will help to bear a part,
And men below will try their greatest art,
Though neither gods nor men can well apply
Fit song or tune to praise her worthily.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

THOMAS

HE Fauns and Satyrs tripping,

TOMKINS.

With lively Nymphs of fresh cool brooks and fountains,

And those of woods and mountains,

Like roes came nimbly skipping.
By signs, their mirth unripping,
My fairy Queen, they presented.
With Amaltheas twenty,
Brim full of wealthy plenty.
And still to give frequented,

With bare gifts not contented,

The demi-gods pray to the gods supernal,
Her life, her wealth, her fame may be eternal!
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

OME, gentle swains and shepherds' dainty daughters, Adorned with courtesy, and comely duties!

Come sing, and joy, and grace with lovely laughters,
The birthday of the beauties!

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

W

COBBOLD.

ITHDRAW yourselves, ye shepherds! from your bowers,
And strew the path with flowers.
The Nymphs are coming!
Sweetly the birds are chirping,

The swift beasts running,

As all amazed, they stand still gazing,
To see such bright stars blazing,

TO DIAN bravely treading.

The powers divine, to her do vail their bonnets,
Prepare yourselves to sound your pastoral sonnets,
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

THOMAS MORLEY.

RISE! awake! you silly shepherds sleeping,
Devise some honour for her sake by mirth to banish
weeping,

Lo! where she comes in gaudy green arraying!

A Prince of beauty, rich and rare, for her delighting

pretends to go a-Maying.

You stately nymphs, draw near, and strew your paths with roses,

In you, her trust reposes!

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

.

JOHN FARMER.

AIR Nymphs, I heard one telling

DIANA's train are hunting in this Chace.
To beautify this place

The Fauns are running;

The Shepherds their pipes tuning,

To show their cunning:

The lambs amazed, leave off their grazing,

And blind their eyes with gazing:

While the earth's Goddess doth draw near your places,
Attended by the Muses and the Graces.

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

HE Lady ORIANA

JOHN WILBY.

Was dight all in the treasures of Guiana;

And on her Grace, a thousand graces tended,

And thus sang they, "Fair Queen of Peace and Plenty !

The fairest Queen of twenty!

Then with an olive wreath, for peace renowned,
Her virgin head, they crowned.

Which ceremony ended,

Unto her Grace, the thousand graces bended.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

THOMAS WEELKES.

S VESTA was from Latmos hill descending,
She spied a Maiden Queen the same ascending,
Attended on by all the shepherds' swain,

To whom DIANA'S darlings came running down a-main:

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First two by two, then three by three together,
Leaving their goddess all alone, hasted thither
And mingling with the shepherds of her train,
With mirthful tunes her presence entertain.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

JOHN MILTON [the father of the Poet]. AIR ORIANA in the morn,

Before the day was born;

With velvet steps on ground,

Which made nor print nor sound,

Would see her Nymphs a-bed;

What lives those Ladies led.

The roses, blushing, said,

"O stay thou Shepherd's Maid!"

And on a sudden all,

They rose and heard her call.

Then sang those shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

R

OUND about her chariot with all admiring strains,
The Hyades and Dryades give sweetest entertains.
Lo, how the gods, in revels, do accord,

Whilst doth each goddess melodies afford.

Now BACCHUS is consorting,
SILVANUS falls a sporting,

AMPHION's harp reporting,

To the shepherds' pipes, sing the nymphs of Diana,
Long live fair ORIANA !

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B

GEORGE

RIGHT PHOEBUS greets most clearly,

KIRBY E.

With radiant beams, fair ORIANA sitting!
Her apple, VENUS yields, as most befitting!
A Queen beloved most dearly!

Rich PLUTO leaves his treasures!

And PROSERPINE, glad, runs in her best array !
Nymphs deck her crown with bay!
Her feet, are lions kissing!

No joy can there be missing!

NOW THETIS leaves the Mermaids' tunes admired,
And swells with pride, to see her Queen desired!
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

ROBERT JONES.

AIR ORIANA, seeming to wink at folly,

Lay softly down to sleeping;

But hearing that the world was grown unholy,
Her rest was turned to weeping.

So waked, she sighed; and with crossed arms,
Sat drinking tears for others' harms;

Then sang the nymphs and shepherds of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !

JOHN LISLEY.

AIR CYTHAREA presents her doves! MINERVA singeth!
JOVE gives a crown! a garland JUNO bringeth!
Fame summoned each celestial power

To bring their gifts to ORIANA's bower.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of DIANA,
Long live fair ORIANA !