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Now lay those sorrowfull complaints aside, And having all your heads with girland crownd,

Helpe me mine owne loves prayses to resound;

Ne let the same of any be envide:
So Orpheus did for his owne bride:
So I unto my selfe alone will sing;

The woods shall to me answer, and my eccho ring.

Early, before the worlds light giving lampe
His golden beame upon the hils doth spred,
Having disperst the nights unchearefull
dampe,

Doe ye awake, and, with fresh lustyhed,
Go to the bowre of my beloved love,
My truest turtle dove:

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Bring with you all the nymphes that you

can heare,

Both of the rivers and the forrests greene, And of the sea that neighbours to her neare, Al with gay girlands goodly wel beseene. 40 And let them also with them bring in hand Another gay girland,

For my fayre love, of lillyes and of roses, Bound truelove wize with a blew silke riband.

And let them make great store of bridale poses,

And let them eeke bring store of other flowers,

To deck the bridale bowers.

And let the ground whereas her foot shall tread,

For feare the stones her tender foot should wrong,

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Be strewed with fragrant flowers all along, And diapred lyke the discolored mead. Which done, doe at her chamber dore awayt,

For she will waken strayt;

The whiles doe ye this song unto her sing, The woods shall to you answer, and your eccho ring.

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And in his waters, which your mirror make, Behold your faces as the christall bright, That when you come whereas my love doth lie,

No blemish she may spie.

And eke ye lightfoot mayds which keepe the dere

That on the hoary mountayne use to towre, And the wylde wolves, which seeke them to devoure,

With your steele darts doo chace from comming neer,

Be also present heere,

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To helpe to decke her, and to help to sing, That all the woods may answer, and your

eccho ring.

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