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The Shepheardes Calender: May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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May AEgloga Quinta Palinode Piers	A
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Palinode	B
IS not thilke the mery moneth of May	C
When loue lads masken in fresh aray	D
How falles it then we no merrier bene	E
Ylike as others girt in gawdy greene	F
Our bloncket liueryes bene all to sadde	B
For thilke same season when all is ycladd	B
With pleasaunce the grownd with grasse the Wods	A
With greene leaues the bushes with bloosming Buds	A
Yougthes folke now flocken in euery where	D
To gather may bus kets and smelling brere	D
And home they hasten the postes to dight	B
And all the Kirke pillours eare day light	B
With Hawthorne buds and swete Eglantine	G
And girlonds of roses and Sopps in wine	G
Such merimake holy Saints doth queme	C
But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme	C
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PIERS	A
For Younkers Palinode such follies fitte	B
But we tway bene men of elder witt	B
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PALINODE	B
Sicker this morrowe ne lenger agoe	H
I sawe a shole of shepeheardes outgoe	H
With singing and shouting and iolly chere	D
Before them yode a lusty Tabrere	D
That to the many a Horne pype playd	B
Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd	B
To see those folkes make such iouysaunce	A
Made my heart after the pype to daunce	A
Tho to the greene Wood they speeden hem all	I
To fetchen home May with their musicall	I
And home they bringen in a royall throne	J
Crowned as king and his Queene attone	J
Was Lady Flora on whom did attend	B
A fayre flock of Faeries and a fresh bend	B
Of louely Nymphes O that I were there	D
To helpen the Ladyes their Maybush beare	D
Ah Piers bene not thy teeth on edge to thinke	H
How great sport they gaynen with little swinck	H
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PIERS	A
Perdie so farre am I from enuie	J
That their fondnesse inly I pitie	B
Those faytours little regarden their charge	K
While they letting their sheepe runne at large	K
Passen their time that should be sparely spent	B
In lustihede and wanton meryment	B
Thilke same bene shepeheards for the Deuils stedde	B
That playen while their flockes be vnfedde	B
Well is it seene theyr sheepe bene not their owne	J
That letten them runne at randon alone	J
But they bene hyred for little pay	C
Of other that caren as little as they	C
What fallen the flocke so they han the fleece	A
And get all the gayne paying but a peece	A
I muse what account both these will make	H
The one for the hire which he doth take	H
And thother for leauing his Lords tas ke	H
When great Pan account of shepeherdes shall aske	H
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PALINODE	B
Sicker now I see thou speakest of spight	B
All for thou lackest somedele their delight	B
I as I am had rather be enuied	B
All were it of my foe then fonly pitied	B
And yet if neede were pitied would be	L
Rather then other should scorne at me	L
For pittied is mishappe that nas remedie	B
But scorned bene dedes of fond foolerie	D
What shoulden shepheards other things tend	B
Then sith their God his good does them send	B
Reapen the fruite thereof that is pleasure	D
The while they here liuen at ease and leasure	D
For when they bene dead their good is ygoe	H
They sleepen in rest well as other moe	C
Tho with them wends what they spent in cost	B
But what they left behind them is lost	B
Good is no good but if it be spend	B
God giueth good for none other end	B
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PIERS	A
Ah Palinodie thou art a worldes childe	B
Who touches Pitch mought needes be defilde	B
But shepheards as Algrind vsed to say	A
Mought not liue ylike as men of the laye	A
With them it sits to care for their heire	D
Enaunter their heritage doe impaire	D
They must prouide for meanes of maintenaunce	A
And to continue their wont countenaunce	A
But shepheard must walke another way	A
Sike worldly souenance he must foresay	A
The sonne of his loines why should he regard	B
To leaue enriched with that he hath spard	B
Should not thilke God that gaue him that good	B
Eke cherish his child if in his wayes he stood	B
For if he misliue in leudnes and lust	B
Little bootes all the welth and the trust	B
That his father left by inheritaunce	A
All will be soone wasted with misgouernaunce	A
But through this and other their miscreaunce	A
They maken many a wrong cheuisaunce	A
Heaping vp waues of welth and woe	C
The floddes whereof shall them ouerflowe	C
Sike mens follie I cannot compare	D
Better then to the Apes folish care	D
That is so enamoured of her young one	J
And yet God wote such cause hath she none	J
That with her hard hold and straight embracing	H
She stoppeth the breath of her youngling	H
So often times when as good is meant	B
Euil ensueth of wrong entent	B
The time was once and may againe retorne	J
For ought may happen that hath bene beforne	J
When shepeheards had none inheritaunce	A
Ne of land nor fee in sufferaunce	A
But what might arise of the bare sheepe	C
Were it more or lesse which they did keepe	C
Well ywis was it with shepheards thoe	C
Nought hauing nought feared they to forgoe	H
For Pan himselfe was their inheritaunce	A
And little them serued for their mayntenaunce	A
The shepheards God so wel them guided	B
That of nought they were vnprouided	B
Butter enough honye milke and whay	C
And their flockes fleeces them to araye	A
But tract of time and long prosperitie	B
That nource of vice this of insolencie	A
Lulled the shepheards in suc securitie	B
That not content with loyal obeysaunce	A
Some gan to gape for greedie gouernaunce	A
And match them selfe with mighty potentates	A
Louers of Lordship and troublers of states	A
Tho gan shepheards swaines to looke a loft	B
And leaue to liue hard and learne to ligge soft	B
Tho vnder colour of shepeheards somewhile	I
There crept in Wolues ful of fraude and guile	I
That often deuoured their owne sheepe	C
And often the shepheards that did hem keepe	C
This was the first sourse of shepheards sorowe	C
That now nill be quitt with baile nor borrowe	C
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PALINODE	B
Three things to beare bene very burdenous	A
But the fourth to forbeare is outragious	A
Wemen that of Loues longing once lust	B
Hardly forbearen but haue it they must	B
So when choler is inflamed with rage	M
Wanting reuenge is hard to asswage	M
And who can counsell a thristie soule	I
With patience to forbeare the offred bowle	I
But of all burdens that a man can beare	D
Moste is a fooles talke to beare and to heare	D
I wene the Geaunt has not such a weight	B
That beares on his shoulders the heauens height	B
Thou findest faulte where nys to be found	B
And buildest strong warke vpon a weake ground	B
Thou raylest on right withouten reason	J
And blamest hem much for small encheason	J
How shoulden shepheardes liue if not so	A
What should they pynen in payne and woe	A
Nay sayd I thereto by my deare borrowe	A
If I may rest I nill liue in sorrowe	A
Sorrowe ne neede be hastened on	J
For he will come without calling anone	J
While times enduren of tranqullitie	B
Vsen we freely our felicitie	B
For when approchen the stormie stowres	A
We mought with our shoulders beare of the sharpe showres	A
And sooth to sayne nought seemeth sike strife	N
That shepheardes so witen ech others life	N
And layen her faults the world beforne	J
The while their foes done eache of hem scorne	J
Let none mislike of that may not be mended	B
So conteck soone by concord mought be ended	B
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PIERS	A
Shepheard I list none accordaunce make	H
With shepheard that does the right way forsake	H
And of the twaine if choice were to me	L
Had leuer my foe then my freend he be	L
For what concord han light and darke sam	C
Or what peace has the Lion with the Lambe	C
Such faitors when their false harts bene hidde	B
Will doe as did the Foxe by the Kidde	B
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PALINODE	B
Now Piers of felowship tell vs that saying	H
For the Ladde can keepe both our flocks from straying	H
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PIERS	A
THilke same Kidde as I can well deuise	A
Was too very foolish and vnwise	A
For on a tyme in Sommer season	J
The Gate her dame that had good reason	J
Yode forth abroade vnto the greene wood	B
To brouze or play or what shee thought good	B
But for she had a motherly care	D
Of her young sonne and wit to beware	D
Shee set her youngling before her knee	L
That was both fresh and louely t	L