Maxioms by Michael Drayton
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your read more
Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your head shall gently houer,
Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
And with their nimble wings shall fan you
That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
And like umbrellas, with their feathers
Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.
Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
By them there sat the loving pelican,
Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,
With her read more
By them there sat the loving pelican,
Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,
With her own blood to life again doth bring.
