Lully, lullay, Tully, lullay,

The falcon bath born my make away.

He bore him up, he bore him down,

He bore him into an orchard brown (more…)

This ae night, this ae night,

Every night and all,

Fire and sleet‘ and candle-light,

And Christ receive thy Caul. (more…)

Draw me near, draw me near,

Draw me near, the jolly juggler.

Here beside dwelleth a rich baron’s daughter:

She would have no man that for love had sought her—

So nice she was. (more…)

A god and yet a man?

A maid and yet a mother?

Wit wonders what wit can

Conceive this or the other.

A god and can he die?

A dead man, can he live?

What wit can well reply?

What reason reason give?

God, truth itself, doth teach it.

Man’s wit sinks too far under

By reason’s power to reach it.

Believe and leave to wonder.

A god and yet a man?

A maid and yet a mother?

Wit wonders what wit can

Conceive this or the other.

A god and can he die?

A dead man, can he live?

What wit can well reply?

What reason reason give?

God, truth itself, doth teach it.

Man’s wit sinks too far under

By reason’s power to reach it.

Believe and leave to wonder.

In what estate so ever I be Timor mortis conturhat me.

As I went on a merry morning,

I heard a bird both weep and sing.

This was the tenor of her talking: (more…)

Fair stood the wind for France,

When we our sails advance,

Nor now to prove our chance,

Longer will tarry;

But putting to the main

At Kaux, the mouth of Seine,

With all his martial train,

Landed King Harry.

And taking many a fort,

Furnished in warlike sort,

Marcheth towards Agincourt, (more…)

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, (more…)

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,

The holy time is quiet as a Nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquility; (more…)

Thou, wha in the heavens dost dwell,

Wha, as it pleases best thysel’,

Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A’ for thy glory,

And no for ony guid or ill

They’ve done afore thee!

I bless and praise thy matchless might, (more…)