"O FOR A BOOKE"

O for a Booke and a shadie nooke,

eyther in-a-doore or out;

With the grene leaves whispering overhede,

or the Streete cryes all about.

Where I maie Reade all at my ease,

both of the Newe and Olde;

For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke,

is better to me than Golde.

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