Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Phyllis

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

IN petticoat of green,

Her hair about her eyne,

Phyllis beneath an oak

Sat milking her fair flock:

’Mongst that sweet-strainèd moisture, rare delight,

Her hand seemed milk, in milk it was so white.