Here you will find the Poem A Pastoral of poet Nicholas Breton
On a hill there grows a flower, Fair befall the dainty sweet! By that flower there is a bower Where the heavenly Muses meet. In the bower there is a chair, Fringed all about with gold, Where doth sit the fairest fair That did ever eye behold. It is Phyllis fair and bright, She that is the shepherds' joy; She that Venus did despite, And did blind her little boy. This is she, the wise, the rich, That the world desires to see; This is ipsa quae the which There is none but only she. Who would not this face admire? Who would not this saint adore? Who would not this sight desire, Though he thought to see no more? O fair eyes! yet let me see One good look, and I am gone; Look on me, for I am he, Thy poor silly Corydon. Thou that art the shepherds' queen, Look upon thy silly swain; By thy comfort have been seen Dead men brought to life again. Make him live that, dying long, Never durst for comfort seek: Thou shalt hear so sweet a song Never shepherd sung the like.
