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To loue thou must begin, And from hence-forth this question neuer make, If that thou should’st a secret Louer take? 

 Of force it dooth behoouerequire That thou should’st be belou’d, and that againe (Faire Mistresse) thou should’st loue, For to what end, what purpose, and what gaine, Should such perfections serue? as now in vaine  My loue is of such art, That (of it selfe) it well deserues to take In thy sweete loue a part: Then for no Sheepheard, that his loue dooth make, (Sweet life) doo not my secret loue forsake. 

FINIS. Bar. Yong.

¶ Another of the same, by Firmius the Sheepheard. +Printed in Yong, Diana (1598), pp. 316-7. After Faustus sings ‘The Shepherd Faustus his song’ *, ‘Firmius, bicause he would not leaue of his accustomed contention, took his Rebecke, and sung thus’. Author: Bartholomew Yong. Structure (May/Ringler): 44: 4×11 a6b8aa6b8c6d10cc6dd10

I F that the gentle winde dooth mooue the leaues with pleasant sound, If that the Kid behind Is left, that cannot find  her dam, runnes bleating vp and downe: The Bagpipe, Reede, or Flute, onely with ayre if that they touched be, With pitty all saluteaddress, greet , And full of loue doo brutebuit, report, announce  thy name, and sound  Diana,  seeing thee: A faire Mayde wed to prying Iealousie. 

The fierce and sauage beastsRollins points out that this should be singular, beast, to fit rhyme scheme (beyond their kindgenus, species  and nature yet) With pitteous voyce and brest,  In mountaines without rest the selfe same Song doo not forget. 