When shee lookes out by night,
The Starres stand gazing,
Like Commets to our sight
Fearefully blazing, 270
As wondring at her eyes
With their much brightnesse,
Which to amaze the skies,
Dimming their lightnesse,
The raging Tempests are Calme,
When shee speaketh,
Such most delightsome balme
From her lips breaketh.
Cho. _On thy Banke,
In a Rancke_, &c. 280
In all our _Brittany_,
Ther's not a fayrer,
Nor can you fitt any:
Should you compare her.
Angels her eye-lids keepe
All harts surprizing,
Which looke whilst she doth sleepe
Like the Sunnes rising:
She alone of her kinde
Knoweth true measure 290
And her vnmatched mind
Is Heauens treasure:
Cho. _On thy Bancke,
In a Rancke
Let thy Swanes sing her,
And with their Musick,
Along let them bring her._
Fayre _Doue_ and _Darwine_ cleere
Boast yee your beauties,
To _Trent_ your Mistres here 300
Yet pay your duties,
My Loue was higher borne
Tow'rds the full Fountaines,
Yet she doth _Moorland_ scorne,
And the _Peake_ Mountaines;
Nor would she none should dreame,
Where she abideth,
Humble as is the streame,
Which by her slydeth,
Cho. _On thy Bancke, 310
In a Rancke,
Let thy Swannes sing her,
And with their Musicke,
Along let them bring her._
Yet my poore Rusticke _Muse_,
Nothing can moue her,
Nor the means I can vse,
Though her true Louer:
Many a long Winters night,
Haue I wak'd for her, 320
Yet this my piteous plight,
Nothing can stirre her.
All thy Sands siluer _Trent_
Downe to the _Humber_,
The sighes I haue spent
Neuer can number.
Cho. _On thy Banke
In a Ranke,
Let thy Swans sing her
And with their Musicke 330
Along let them bring her._
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