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First Line: Chloris, it is not thy disdain
Variant Title(s): To The Tune Of In Fayth I Cannot Keepe My Fathers Sheep


Cloris, since first our calm of peace
Was frighted hence, this good we find,
Your favours with your fears increase,
And growing mischiefs make you kind.


So the fair tree, which still preserves
Her fruit, and state, while no winds blow,
In storms from that uprightness swerves,
And the glad earth about her strow.


Then keep the same pace still; be kind
Still to the same; nor let me hear
From you, or chang'd, or grieved your mind;
The first breeds love, the last, fear.






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