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And were so mooued both thereat, that hate in each began to fall.  Such is the power of sacred loue. 

They shewed themselues in open sight, poore Louers, Lord how they were mazde? And hand in hand the Fathers plightjoined, pledged , whereat (poore harts) they gladly gazde.  Hope now begins to further loue. 

And to confirme a mutuall band, of loue, that at no time should cease: They likewise ioyned hand in hand, the Shepheard and the Shepheardesse.  Like fortune still befall true loue. 

FINIS. Shep. Tonie.

Another of Astrophell. +Taken from ‘Certaine Sonets Written by Sir Philip Sidney’ in The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1598), pp. 473-4. Other copies in: F: H.b.1, c. 1600, fols. 216v-17; O: e Museo 37, fols. 243v-44. For the music for this lyric, see Musical Settings . Author: Sir Philip Sidney. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 2×12 abab11cdc7dEF11E7F11

T He  Nightingale   so soone as Aprill bringeth Vnto her rested sense a perfect waking: While late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorne her Song-booke making. +for other use of this motif,                         see Another of the same shepherds, ll. 10-11: ‘Lean’d her breast..ditty’ * And mournefully bewailing Her throate in tunes expresseth, What griefe her breast oppresseth, For  Tereus  force, on her chast will preuailing. 