First Set of English Madrigals

Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone,
feeding her flock near to the mountainside
The shepherds knew not whither she was gone,
But after her lover Amyntas hide
Up and down he wandered,
Whilst she was missing;
When he found her,
O, then they fell a kissing.

O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting;
  These gentle flowers smile sweetly to invite us,
And chirping birds are hitherward resorting,
  Warbling sweet notes only to delight us:
Then stay, dear love, for, tho' thou run from me,
Run ne'er so fast, yet I will follow thee.

I thought, my love, that I should overtake you;
  Sweet heart, sit down under this shadow'd tree,
And I will promise never to forsake you,
  So you will grant to me a lover's fee.
Whereat she smiled, and kindly to me said -
I never meant to live and die a maid.

Take time, while time doth last,
Mark how fair fadeth fast,
beware if envy reign:
take heed of proud disdain;
hold fast, now in thy youth,
regard thy vowed truth;
lest when thou waxeth old,
friends fail and love grow cold.

You blessèd bowers whose green leaves now are spreading,
Shadow the sunshine from my mistress' face,
And you, sweet roses, only for her bedding
When weary she doth take her resting-place;
You fair white lilies and pretty flowers all,
Give your attendance at my mistress' call.

A little pretty bonny lass was walking
In midst of May before the sun 'gan rise.
I took her by the hand and fell to talking
Of this and that, as best I could devise.
I swore I would, yet still she said I should not
Do what I would, and yet for all I could not.

Who would have thought that face of thine
Had been so full of doubleness?
Or that within those crystal eyne
Had been so much unstableness?
Thy face so fair, thy look so strange,
Who would have thought of such a change?

Now each creature joys the other,
  Passing happy days and hours;
One bird reports unto another
  By the fall of silver showers;
Whilst the earth, our common mother,
  Hath her bosom decked with flowers.

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