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First Line: Haste, my nannette, my lovely maid
Last Line: Though the wolf prowl, and the sheep stray.
Variant Title(s): Nannette
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sheep; Wolves


HASTE, my Nannette, my lovely maid,
Haste to the bower thy swain has made;
For thee alone I made the bower,
And strewed the couch with many a flower.
None but my sheep shall near us come:
Venus be praised! my sheep are dumb!
Great god of love, take thou my crook,
To keep the wolf from Nannette's flock!
Guard thou the sheep, to her so dear;
My own, alas, are less my care.
But, of the wolf if thou 'rt afraid,
Come not to us to call for aid;
For with her swain my love shall stay,
Though the wolf prowl, and the sheep stray.





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