Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then, heigh-ho! the holly!

This life is most jolly.

II.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot :

Though thou the waters warp,

Thy sting is not so sharp

As friend remember'd not.

Heigh-ho! &c.

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd.

WHEN I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay,

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,-
That Time will come and take my love away.

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

If love make me forsworn.

IF love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
Ah, never faith could hold if not to beauty vow'd!
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove;
These thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd.

Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,
Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend.
If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;
Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend :
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;
(Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire),