Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Lips and Eyes

Thomas Middleton (1580–1627)

LOVE for such a cherry lip

Would be glad to pawn his arrows;

Venus here to take a sip

Would sell her doves and team of sparrows.

But they shall not so;

Hey nonny, nonny no!

None but I this lip must owe;

Hey nonny, nonny no!

Did Jove see this wanton eye,

Ganymede must wait no longer;

Phœbe here one night did lie,

Would change her face and look much younger.

But they shall not so;

Hey nonny, nonny no!

None but I this lip must owe;

Hey nonny, nonny no!