Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Two Noble Kinsmen (1634 Edition)
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Scene iv
1566: Scaena 4. Enter Iaylors daughter.
1567:
Daugh.
I am very cold, and all the Stars are out too,
1568: The little Stars, and all, that looke like aglets:
1569: The Sun has seene my Folly: Palamon;
1570: Alas no; hees in heaven; where am I now?
1571: Yonder's the sea, and ther's a Ship; how't tumbles
1572: And ther's a Rocke lies watching under water;
1573: Now, now, it beates upon it; now, now, now,
1574: Ther's a leak sprung, a sound one, how they cry?
1575: Vpon her before the winde, you'l loose all els:
1576: Vp with a course or two, and take about Boyes.
1577: Good night, good night, y'ar gone; I am very hungry,
1578: Would I could finde a fine Frog; he would tell me
1579: Newes from all parts o'th world, then would I make
1580: A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle
1581: By east and North East to the King of Pigmes,
1582: For he tels fortunes rarely. Now my Father
1583: Twenty to one is trust up in a trice
1584: To morrow morning, Ile say never a word.
1585: [ Sing.]
For ile cut my greene coat, a foote above my knee,
1586: And ile clip my yellow lockes; an inch below mine eie.
1587: hey, nonny, nonny, nonny,
1588: He's buy me a white Cut, forth for to ride
1589: And ile goe seeke him, throw the world that is so wide
1590: hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.
1591: O for a pricke now like a Nightingale, to put my breast
1592: Against. I shall sleepe like a Top else. [ Exit.]