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In the merry month of May,
In a morn by break of day,
Forth I walk’d by the wood-side
Whenas May was in his pride:
There I spièd all alone
Phillida and Coridon.

— Nicholas Breton

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Notes from Wikiquote

Elvetham Entertainment (1591), England’s Helicon (1600), Este’s Madrigals (1604)

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To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.

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When little children first are brought to schoole
A Horne-booke is a necessarie toole.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Put not thy spirit unto too much paine,
In searching secrets farre above thy skill:
And know a halbert from a hedging bill.

The Mothers Blessing (1602)

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