William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Come Buy, Come BuyWilliam Shakespeare (15641616)
From “The Winter’s Tale,” Act IV. Scene 3
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Cypress black as e’er was crow;
Gloves as sweet as damask roses;
Masks for faces, and for noses;
Bugle-bracelet, necklace-amber,
Perfume for a lady’s chamber:
Golden quoifs and stomachers,
For my lads to give their dears;
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel:
Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;
Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry:
Come buy.