Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Anonymous. 160058. A Pedlar John Dowland’s Second Book of Songs or Airs
FINE knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new, | |
Good pennyworths—but money cannot move: | |
I keep a fair but for the Fair to view— | |
A beggar may be liberal of love. | |
Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, | 5 |
The heart is true. | |
Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again; | |
My trifles come as treasures from my mind: | |
It is a precious jewel to be plain; | |
Sometimes in shell the orient’st pearls we find:— | 10 |
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain! | |
Of me a grain! |