That I no sooner could the hearing lose

Of one of them, but straight another rose,

And perching deftly on a quaking spray,

Nigh tir'd herself to make her hearer stay.

. . . . .

Shrill as a thrush upon a morn of May.

From Britannia's Pastorals.

Music on the Thames

As I have seen when on the breast of Thames

A heavenly bevy of sweet English dames,