¶The Sheepheards braule, one halfe aunswering the other. +Braule: brawl, music of type of French dance that resembles a cotillion; printed in The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia , (1590), Bk I, Ecl. 1, pp. 86-7. It is also the first of the poems in the first set of eclogue in the Old Arcadia , p. 51: ‘The first sports the shepherds showed were full of such leaps and gambols as (being accorded to the pipe which they bare in their mouths even as they danced) made a right picture of their chief god Pan and his companions, the satyrs. Then would they cast away their pipes and, holding hand in hand, dance as it were in a brawl by the only cadence of their voices, which they would use in singing some short couplets; whereto the one half beginning, the other half answered; as, the one half saying’. Other copies are in: C5: 308/I.7, c. 1581, fol.31v; F: H.b.1, c. 1600, fol. 29; HN HM 162, c. 1585, fol. 24; L: Add. 38892, c. 1590, fol. 30; L: Add. 41204, c. 1590, fol. 27v; L: Add. 61821, c. 1595, fol. 20v; O: e Museo 37, c. 1588, fol. 33. Author: Sir Philip Sidney. Structure (May/Ringler): 8: aa8
1. W E loue, and haue our loues rewarded?
2. We loue, and are no whitbit, jot, at all regarded.
1. We finde most sweet affections snare:
2. That sweete but sower dispairefull caregrief full of despair .
1. (5) Who can dispaire, whom hope dooth beare?
2. And who can hope, that feeles dispaire?
All. As without breath no pipe dooth moue: No Musique kindly without loue.
FINIS. S. Phil. Sidney.
¶ Dorus his comparisons. +Printed in The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia , (1590), Bk II, Ch. 3, p. 111. The song is from the second book of The Old Arcadia , pp. 93-4, when Dorus-Musidorus sings a song to Pamela: ‘Dorus, that found his speeches had given alarum to her imaginations, to hold her the longer in them and bring her to a dull yielding-over her forces (as the nature of music is to do), took up his harp and sang these few verses’. Other copies are in: C: Kk.1.5(2), 1584, fol. 74v; C5: 308/I.7, c. 1581, fol.55v; D2: Z 3.5.21, c.1590, fol.17v; F: H.b.1, c. 1600, fols.51-1v; HN: HM 162, c. 1585, fol. 46; L: Add. 38892, c. 1590, fol. 54; L: Add. 41204, c. 1590, fol. 48; L: Add. 41498, c. 1590, fol. 10v; NLW: Ottley Papers, c. 1584, fol.4; O: e Museo 37, c. 1588, fol. 59v; O2: MS. 301, c. 1585, fol. 36v; O18: MS. 150, c. 1585, p. 80. Author: Sir Philip Sidney. Structure (May/Ringler): 8: ababccdd10
M Y Sheepe are thoughts, which I both guide and serue, Their pasture is faire hills of fruitlesse loue: On barren sweetes they feede, and feeding steruestarve , I waile their lot, but will not other proue. (5) My sheepe-hooke is wanne hopedespair , which all vpholds: My weedes, desires, cut out in endlesse folds. +Duncan-Jones notes that ‘This image is of a piece with the emblematic costumes worn by characters in the Arcadia ; its specific source may be the opening of Montemayor’s Diana , where the forsaken Sireno wears “a long grey coat as rugged as his haps” ( Diana , p. 11).’ What wooll my Sheepe shall beare, while thus they liue: In you it is, you must the iudgement giue.
FINIS. S. Phil. Sidney.