"Of pleasure past. Here will I dwell apart In gastful grove therefore, till my last sleep Do close mine eyes; so shall I not augment With sight of such as change my restless woe. Help me, ye baneful Birds! whose shrieking sound Is sign of dreary death, my deadly cries "Most ruthfully to tune: and as my cries (Which of my woe cannot bewray least part) You hear all night, when Nature craveth sleep, Increase, so let your irksome yells augment. Thus all the nights in plaints, the day in woe, I vowed have to waste, till safe and sound "She home return, whose voice's silver sound To cheerful songs can change my cheerless cries. Hence with the nightingale will I take part, That blessed bird, that spends her time of sleep In songs and plaintive pleas, the more t' augment The memory of his misdeed that bred her woe. "And you that feel no woe, when as the sound Of these my nightly cries ye hear apart, Let break your sounder sleep, and pity augment." PER. O Colin, Colin! the shepheards' joy, How I admire each turning of thy verse; And Cuddie, fresh Cuddie, the liefest boy, How dolefully his dole thou didst rehearse! CUD. Then blow your pipes, shepheards, till you be at home; The night hieth fast, it's time to be gone. PERIGOT HIS EMBLEME.[14] _Vincenti gloria victi._ (To the conqueror belongs the glory of the conquered.) WILLIE'S EMBLEME.[14] _Vinto non vitto._ (Conquered, not overcome.) CUDDIE'S EMBLEME.[14] _Felice chi puo_. (He is happy who can.) [Illustration: SEPTEMBER AEGLOGA NONA DIGGON'S EMBLEME] SEPTEMBER. ÆGLOGA NONA. ARGUMENT. Herein Diggon Davie is devised to be a shepheard that, in hope of more gain, drove his sheep into a far country. The abuses whereof, and loose living of Popish prelates, by occasion of Hobbinol's demand, he discourseth at large. HOBBINOL. DIGGON DAVIE.