company. Yea, all things he essayed, and all for one end, that they
maiden, dost thou.html">thou.html">thou lie, both being girls unwedded of like age, both
crafty nurse it is that cruelly severs me from thee. For not of thee
palm to a southern spring.html">spring.html">spring.
Cleodamus. Which is sweetest, to thee, Myrson, spring, or winter.html">winter.html">winter.html">winter or
coming? summer.html">Summer, when all are ended, the toils whereat we labour, or
winter, for even in winter many sit warm by the fire, and are lulled
thee? Say, which does thy heart choose? For our leisure lends us
are all these things, and all are sweet, yet for thy sake I will
rest. I would not have summer here, for then the sun.html">sun doth scorch me,
The ruinous winter, bearing snow and frost.html">frost, I dread. But spring, the
neither frost, nor is the sun so heavy upon us. In springtime all is
evenly meted to men.
IV--THE BOY AND LOVE
A fowler, while yet a boy.html">boy, was hunting birds in a woodland glade, and
he beheld him, he rejoiced, so big the bird seemed to him, and he put
hopping, now here, now there. And the boy, being angered that his
husbandman, that had taught him his art, and told him all, and showed
answered the lad, 'Pursue this chase no longer, and go not after this
happy, so long as thou dost not catch him, but if thou comest to the
will come uncalled, and of a sudden, and settle on thy head.'
V--THE TUTOR OF LOVE
Great Cypris stood beside me, while still I slumbered, and with her
bowed. This word she spake to me, 'Dear herdsman, prithee, take
store of pastoral song I taught to Love, in my innocence, as if he
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