Thy garters fringed with the golde, And silver aglets hanging by, Which made thee blithe for to beholde,-- And yet thou wouldst not love me. 40 _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ My gayest gelding I thee gave, To ride where ever liked thee, No ladie ever was so brave, And yet thou wouldst not love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ My men were clothed all in green, 45 And they did ever wait on thee; All this was gallant to be seen, And yet thou wouldst not love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ They set thee up, they took thee downe, They served thee with humilitie; 50 Thy foote might not once touch the ground, And yet thou wouldst not love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ For everie morning, when thou rose, I sent thee dainties, orderly, To cheare thy stomack from all woes, 55 And yet thou wouldst not love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ Thou couldst desire no earthly thing But stil thou hadst it readily; Thy musicke still to play and sing, And yet thou wouldst not love me. 60 _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ And who did pay for all this geare, That thou didst spend when pleased thee? Even I that am rejected here, And thou disdainst to love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ Wel, I wil pray to God on hie 65 That thou my constancie maist see, And that yet once before I die Thou will vouchsafe to love me. _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ Greensleeves, now farewel, adue! God I pray to prosper thee, 70 For I am stil thy lover true; Come once againe, and love me! _Greensleeves was all my joie, &c._ 20, And thus. ROBENE AND MAKYNE. This exceedingly pretty pastoral, the earliest poem of the kind in the Scottish language, is ascribed in the Bannatyne MS., where it is preserved, to Robert Henryson, who appears to have written in the latter half of the fifteenth century. All that is certainly known of the author is that he was chief schoolmaster of Dunfermline. _Robene and Makyne_ was first printed by Ramsay in his _Evergreen_, (i. 56,) and afterwards by Lord Hailes, in _Ancient Scottish Poems published from the MS. of George Bannatyne_, (p. 98.) Some freedoms were taken with the text by Ramsay, and one line was altered by Lord Hailes. Our copy is given from Sibbald's _Chronicle of Scottish Poetry_, (i. 115,) where the manuscript is faithfully adhered to.