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All to adorne and beautifie: Your lodging with most maiestie.

Then in mine armes will I enclose Lillies faire mixture with the Rose. (35) Whose nice perfections in loues play: Shall tune me to the highest key.

Thus as we passe the welcome night, In sportfull pleasures and delight, The nimble Fairies on the grounds, (40) Shall daunce and sing mellodious sounds.

If these may serue for to entice, Your presence to Loues Paradice, Then come with me, and be my deare: And we will strait begin the yeare.

FINIS. Ignoto.

¶ Two Pastorals, vpon three friends meeting +Added to this second edition. Printed under the title ‘Two Pastorels, made by Sir Phillip Sidney. Vpon his meeting with his two worthy Friends, and fellow Poets, Sir Edward Dier, and M. Fulke Greuill’ in Poetical Rhapsody (1602) *. Author: attributed to Sidney; reprinted in Grosart ed. The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (1877), ii. 27-30. Structure (May/Ringler): 60: 10×6 abab6CC8

I Oyne mates in mirth to me, Grant pleasure to our meeting: Let Pan our good God see, How gratefull is our greeting.

(5) Ioyne hearts and hands, so let it be, Make but one minde in bodies three. +