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: AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD. CONTAINING THE COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS FOB THE LOUE OF GANYMEDE. Amor plus mellis, quamfdlis, est. London: Printed by Iohn Danteh, for T. G. and E. N., and are to bee sold in Saint Dunstones Cimreh-yeard in Fleetstreet. 1594. TO THE BIGHT EXCELLENT AND MOST BEAUTIFULL LADY, THE LADIE PENELOPE HITCH. Fayre lovely ladie, whose angelique eyes Are vestall candles of sweet beauties treasure, Whose speech is able to inchaunt the wise, Converting joy to paine, and paine to pleasure; Accept this simple toy of my soules dutie, Which I present unto thy matchles beautie. And albeit the gift be all too meane, Too meane an offring for thine ivorie shrine; Yet must thy beautie my just blame susteane, Since it is mortall, but thyselfe divine. Then, noble ladie, take in gentle worth This new-borne babe, which here my muse brings forth. Your Honours most affectionate and perpetually devoted Shepheard: Daphnis. AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD. THE TEARES OF AN AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD SICKK FOR LOVE, OR THE COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS FOB THE LOVE OF CANIMEDE. Scarce had the morning starre hid from the light Heavens crimson canopie with stars bespangled, But I began to rue th' unhappy sight Of that faire boy that had my hart intangledj Cursing the time, the place, the sense, the sin; I came, I saw, I viewd, I slipped in. If it be sinne to love a sweet-fac'd boy, Whose amber locks trust up in golden tramels Dangle adowne his lovely cheekes with joy, When pearle and flowers his faire haire enamels; If it be sinne to love a lovely lad, Oh then sinne I, for whom my soule is sad. His ivory-white and alablaster skin Is staind throughout with rare vermillion red, Whose twinckling star...