Old English songs from various sources Author:Hugh Thomson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I care not, I, to fi/h in seas? Frefli rivers moft my mind do pleafe, Whofe sweet calm courfe I contemplate, And seek in life to imitate : In civil bounds I fain... more » would keep, And for my paft offences weep. chapter{Section 4And when the timorous trout I wait To take, and he devours my bait, How poor a thing, sometimes I find, Will captivate a greedy mind; And when none bite, I praife the wife, Whom vain allurements ne'er -surprife. chapter{Section 5But yet, though while I fi/h I fa/), I make good fortune my repaft; And thereunto my friend invite, In whom I more than that delight; Who is more welcome to my dijh Than to my angle was my fi/h. chapter{Section 6As well content no prize to take, As ufe of taken prize to make : For so our Lord was pleafed, when He fi/hers made fi/hers of men : Where (which is in no other game) A man may fifli and praife His name. chapter{Section 7The firft men that our Saviour dear Did choofe to wait upon Him here, Blejfd fi/hers were, and fi/h the laft Food was that He on earth did tafte; I therefore strive to follow thofe Whom He to follow Him hath chofe. chapter{Section 8 " Who liveth so merry " ho liveth so merry in all this land As doth the poor widow that selleth the sand ? And ever she singeth as I can guefs, " Will you buy a?ny sand, a?ny sand, mij?trefs ? " "fhe broom-man maketh his living most sweef, With carrying of brooms from street to street; Who would deftre a pleafanter thing Than all day long doing nothing but sing ? The chimney-sweeper all the long day, He singeth and sweepeth the soot away : Tet when he comes home, although he be weary, With his sweet wife he maketh himfelf full merry. The cobbler he sits cobbling till noon, And cobbleth his shoes till they be done; Tet doth he not fear, and...« less