JOHN FORD (fl. 1639) SONG FROM THE BROKEN HEART Can you paint a thought? or number Can you count soft minutes roving No, O, no! yet you may Than by any praise display All loves, all hearts, Glories, pleasures, pomps, delights, and ease, 146 Must in his harvest or lose all again. Now must he pluck the rose lest other hands, Or tempests, blemish what so fairly stands : That stand as if out-facing one another, Where never gale was longer known to stay 159 How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door ere this Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; 40 CHAPTER I. PISCATOR, VENATOR, AUCEPS Piscator. You are well overtaken, Gentlemen! A good morning to you both! I have stretched my legs up Tottenham Hill to overtake you, hoping your business may occasion you towards Ware, whither I am going this fine fresh May morning. Venator. Sir, I, for my part, shall almost answer your hopes; for my purpose is to drink my morning's draught at the Thatched House in Hoddesden; and I think not to rest till I come thither, where I have appointed a friend or two to meet me: but for this gentleman that you see with me, I know not how far he intends his journey; he came so lately into 1act as servant 2 angler 3 hunter + falconer |