The World, and the Sun's glorious light,

To leave our flocks and fields for ever,

20To part, and never meet again, O never!

After that cruel hideous hour,

Thou and I shall sing no more;

In the cold Earth they will thee lay,

And what thou dot'st on shall be clay.

Parthenia.

Alas! why will they use me so,

A virgin that no evil do?