INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

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A turtle sat upon a leafless tree (Lodge)

Accurst be Love, and those that trust his trains (Lodge)

Adieu; farewell earth's bliss (Nashe)

BLITHE and bonny country lass (Lodge)

A curse upon thee for a slave (John Fletcher)

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Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing (Greene)

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All that glisters is not gold (Shakespeare).

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All the flowers of the spring (Webster).

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All ye that lovely lovers be (Peele)

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All ye woods, and trees, and bowers (John Fletcher)

Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in (John Fletcher) 127

Art thou god to shepherd turned (Shakespeare).

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers (Dekker)
At Venus' entreaty for Cupid her son (Peele)

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84

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Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure (Nashe)

Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling (John Fletcher).

Back and side go bare, go bare (Still)

Beauty, alas! where wast thou born (Lodge and Greene)
Beauty, arise, show forth thy glorious shining (Dekker).
Beauty clear and fair (John Fletcher).

Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray (Middleton)
Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Shakespeare).
Brave iron, brave hammer, from your sound (Dekker)
Buzz! quoth the Blue-Fly (Ben Jonson)

By the moon we sport and play (Maid's Metamorphosis).

Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren (Webster).
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes (John Fletcher)
Cast away care! he that loves sorrow (Dekker).

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25

85

144

164

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72

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148

124

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Cast our caps and cares away (John Fletcher)
Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain (Dekker)
Come away, away, away! (Shirley).
Come away, bring on the bride (John Fletcher).
Come away, come away (Middleton).
Come away, come away, Death (Shakespeare)
Come, come away! the spring (Richard Brome)
Come, follow me, you country lasses (Fletcher and Rowley)
Come, follow your leader, follow (Middleton and Rowley).
Come hither, you that love, and hear me sing (John Fletcher).
Come let the state stay (Suckling)

Come, lovers, bring your cares (Jones)

Come, lovely boy! unto my court (Rutter).

Come, my Celia, let us prove (Ben Jonson).

Come, my children, let your feet (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Come, my dainty doxies (Middleton?)

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ΙΟΥ

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Come, my Daphne, come away (Shirley)

Come, my sweet, whiles every strain (Cartwright).

Come, noble nymphs, and do not hide (Ben Jonson).

Come, shepherds, come (John Fletcher).

Come, shepherds, come, impale your brows (Goffe)

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving (Beaumont and
(Fletcher)

Come, thou monarch of the vine (Shakespeare)
Come unto these yellow sands (Shakespeare).

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110

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Come, you whose loves are dead (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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Comforts lasting, loves increasing (John Ford).

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Cupid abroad was lated in the night (Greene)

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Cupid all his arts did prove (Thomas Forde).

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Cupid and my Campaspe played (Lyly).

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Cupid, if a god thou art (Hausted).

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Cupid, pardon what is past (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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Cynthia, to thy power and thee (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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Dame, dame! the watch is set (Ben Jonson)

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Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong (May)

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Dearest, do not you delay me (John Fletcher)

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Deceiving world, that with alluring toys (Greene).

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Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye (Shakespeare).
Die, die, ah die (Jones)

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Dildido, dildido (Greene)

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Done to death by slanderous tongues (Shakespeare)
"Down a down" (Lodge)

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Drink to-day and drown all sorrow (John Fletcher)

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Drop golden showers, gentle sleep (Goffe)
Drowsy Phoebus, come away (Hausted)

Eyes, hide my love and do not show (Daniel)

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Fain to content, I bend myself to write (Lodge).
Fair and fair, and twice so fair (Peele)

Fair summer droops, droop men and beast therefore (Nashe)

Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Shakespeare).

Fine young folly, though you were (Habington).

First shall the heavens want starry light (Lodge)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep (John Ford)
Fond feigning poets make of love a god (Greene).
Fond Love, no more (Thomas Forde)
Fools, they are the only nation (Ben Jonson).
For pity, pretty eyes, surcease (Lodge)
Fortune smiles, cry holiday! (Dekker) .
From the east to western Ind (Shakespeare).
From thy forehead thus I take (John Fletcher)
Full fathom five thy father lies (Shakespeare)
Fy, fy on blind fancy (Greene) .
Fy on sinful fantasy (Shakespeare)

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56

201

267

150

243

229

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III

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262

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Gently dip, but not too deep (Peele)

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Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie (John Fletcher)
God Lyæus, ever young (John Fletcher)

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Golden slumbers kiss your eyes (Dekker)

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Hail, beauteous Dian, queen of shades (Heywood).
Happy times we live to see (Middleton and Rowley)

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Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings (Shakespeare)
Hark, now everything is still (Webster)

Hast thou seen the down in the air (Suckling)
Have pity, Grief; I cannot pay (Hausted)
Have you a desire to see (Hausted)

Haymakers, rakers, reapers and mowers (Dekker)
Hear, ye ladies that despise (John Fletcher).

Heigh-ho, what shall a shepherd do (Shirley)

Hence, all you vain delights (John Fletcher).

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned (Peele)

Hold back thy hours, dark Night, till we have done (Beaumont

Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air (Peele)

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How blest are they that waste their weary hours (Quarles).

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