The Amorous Shepherd, and coy Shepherdess, Or, An answer to Amintas and Claudia.  
Fair Calia kept her lover long in awe,  
And what he said, she dashed with a ha', ha',  
But after when the Shepherd bolder grew,  
He made her change her old note for a new.  
Tune of, Calm was the Evening, etc.  
 

Clear was the morning, and azure the Sky  
and May flowers adorned the Spring,  
When all alone walked Caelia and I  
to hear the birds merrily sing,  
She sat and I laid me down by her  
and close to her side I did draw,  
But she bid me forbear,  
Yet still I drew near,  

Then she laughed with a ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', 
 ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha'.    

I used my best art, for to cheer up her heart  
and cause her to stoop to my lure,  
But still she was mute, when I moved my suit  
being guarded with innocence pure,  
I played with her locks, like a lover  
until she took notice and saw,  
And then she said fie,  
I presumed too nigh,  

〈…〉 out with a h●… etc.    

I bid her behold how Phoebus did lie  
enclosed in Aurora's arms,  
How amorous birds to make it did fly  
yet still she resisted my charms,  
I showed her how Trees there embraced  
by enticement of nature's law,  
Which made her to smile,  
To herself for a while,  

At last she laughed out ha', ha', &c:    

I told her the earth which our bodies now cover  
did willingly the seed embrace,  
Else to those flowers she ne'er had been Mother,  
which now doth bespangle her face,  
I showed her how ewes, with their lambs played  
thus thought I by Emblems to draw,  
Her to my desire,  
And kindle loves fire,  

But I was dashed with a ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', 
 ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha'.    
 
 

HEr eyes they did sparkle like Stars in the Skies  
inviting me for to be bold,  
●ut how to presume I could not devise  
she seemed in affection so cold,  
〈◊〉 thought then to pluck up my spirits  
and try if her heart it would thaw,  
But she being nice,  
I was dashed in a trice,  

When she laughed with a ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', 
 ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha'.    

I laid my head down, and I fetched a deep sigh  
thinking by that means for to move  
Her pity to me, but it would not be,  
she seemed to know nothing of love  
With amorous looks I did woe her,  
to yield and submit to love's law,  
But when with a frown,  
She perceived me cast down,  

●hen she laughed with a ha', ha', etc.    

My heart it did pant in my breast all the while  
and the blood in my veins it did swell,  
●y countenance changed, and my looks are estranged  
than she asked me if I were not well,  
●ut when she perceived my passion  
she said I might pleas to with draw,  
But it was, but a while,  
 I see she did smile,  

And laughed out with ha', ha', etc.    

When this would not do, something bolder I grew  
and strait to her lips did presume,  
Where by a kiss, I enjoyed more bliss  
than Jove in his altars perfume,  
Such nectar from her lips I then drew  
as Jove, nor Apollo ne'er saw,  
Yet still she was coy,  
When I called her my joy  

And laughed out with a ha', ha', etc.    

I played with her neck, that Ivory pillar  
then with her parnasion breast,  
And so by degrees, I enjoyed what did please  
but scarce shall I tell you the rest,  
But what I did do, she then smiled at  
and laid to my actions no law,  
But for all her retreat,  
She liked to the feat,  

That she laughed with a ha', ha', etc.    

She said the time spent, and she needs must be gone  
which grieved my heart for to hear,  
Because I was loath, to tell you the truth  
to part with my joy and my dear,  
I kissed her a while, than we parted  
and passing along there I saw  
A Shepherdess walk,  
Which had heard all our talk,  

And she laughed with a ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', 
 ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha', ha'.     

Printed for I Clerk at the Harp and Bible in West-Smith field