When envious night commands them to be gone.' "
These latter quotations are from William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals (book ii. published in 1616), and the poet goes on to tell how the Lady
"Calls for the merry youngsters one by one,
And, for their well performance, soon disposes
To this a garland interwove with roses;
To that a carved hook or well-wrought scrip;
Gracing another with her cherry lip;
To one her garter; to another then
A handkerchief cast o'er and o'er again:
And none returneth empty that hath spent