<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Corydon's Doleful Knell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Phillida, adieu love!<br>For evermore farewel!<br>Ay me! I've lost my true love,<br>And thus I ring her knell,<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong,<br>My Phillida is dead!<br>I'll stick a branch of willow <br>At my fair Phillis' head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my fair Phillida<br>Our bridal bed was made;<br>But 'stead of silkes so gay,<br>She in her shroud is laid.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her corpse shall be attended<br>By maides in fair array,<br>Till the obsequies are ended,<br>And she is wrapt in clay.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her herse it shall be carried<br>By youths that do excell;<br>And when that she is buried,<br>I thus will ring her knell.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A garland shall be framed<br>By art and natures skill,<br>Of sundry-colour'd flowers,<br>In token of good-will.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sundry-colour'd ribbands<br>On it I will bestow;<br>But chiefly black and yellowe<br>With her to grave shall go.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll decke her tomb with flowers,<br>The rarest ever seen,<br>And with my tears, as showers,<br>I'll keepe them fresh and green.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead of fairest colours,<br>Set forth with curious art,<br>Her image shall be painted<br>On my distressed heart.<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thereon shall be graven,<br>Her epitaph so faire,<br>'Here lies the loveliest maiden,<br>That e'er gave shepheard care.'<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In sable will I mourne;<br>Blacke shall be all my weede:<br>Ay me! I am forlorne<br>Now Phillida is dead!<br>Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong,<br>My Phillida is dead!<br>I'll stick a branch of willow<br>At my fair Phillis' head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345990" data-title="Corydon's Doleful Knell de Anonymous Olde English" data-description="My Phillida, adieu love! For evermore farewel! Ay me! I've lost my true love, And thus I ring her knell, Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, My Phillida is dead! I'll stick a branch of willow At my fair Phillis' head. For my fair Phillida Our brida..."></div> </div> </div>

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