A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CCDDEE FGHI JJ KK L L MNKK O O C K K K P A K K K KK Q R S S T UU C KK KKKV WW XX KK| Uttered in a Pastoral Show at Wilton | A |
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| WILL Dick since we cannot dance come let a cheerful voice | B |
| Show that we do not grudge at all when others do rejoice | B |
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| DICK Ah Will though I grudge not I count it feeble glee | C |
| With sight made dim with daily tears another's sport to see | C |
| Whoever lambkins saw yet lambkins love to play | D |
| To play when that their loved dams are stolen or gone astray | D |
| If this in them be true as true in men think I | E |
| A lustless song forsooth thinks he that hath more lust to cry | E |
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| WILL A time there is for all my mother often says | F |
| When she with skirts tucked very high with girls at football plays | G |
| When thou hast mind to weep seek out some smoky room | H |
| Now let those lightsome sights we see thy darkness overcome | I |
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| DICK What joy the joyful sun gives unto bleared eyes | J |
| That comfort in these sports you like my mind his comfort tries | J |
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| WILL What Is thy bagpipe broke or are thy lambs miswent | K |
| Thy wallet or thy tar box lost or thy new raiment rent | K |
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| DICK I would it were but thus for thus it were too well | L |
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| WILL Thou see'st my ears do itch at it good Dick thy sorrow tell | L |
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| DICK Hear then and learn to sigh a mistress I do serve | M |
| Whose wages make me beg the more who feeds me till I starve | N |
| Whose livery is such as most I freeze apparelled most | K |
| And looks so near unto my cure that I must needs be lost | K |
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| WILL What These are riddles sure art thou then bound to her | O |
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| DICK Bound as I neither power have nor would have power to stir | O |
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| WILL Who bound thee | C |
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| DICK Love my lord | K |
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| WILL What witnesses thereto | K |
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| DICK Faith in myself and Worth in her which no proof can undo | K |
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| WILL What seal | P |
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| DICK My heart deep graven | A |
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| WILL Who made the band so fast | K |
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| DICK Wonder that by two so black eyes the glitt'ring stars be past | K |
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| WILL What keepeth safe thy band | K |
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| DICK Remembrance is the chest | K |
| Lock'd fast with knowing that she is of worldly things the best | K |
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| WILL Thou late of wages plain'dst what wages may'sh thou have | Q |
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| DICK Her heavenly looks which more and more do give me cause to crave | R |
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| WILL If wages make you want what food is that she gives | S |
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| DICK Tear's drink sorrow's meat wherewith not I but in me my death lives | S |
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| WILL What living get you then | T |
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| DICK Disdain but just disdain | U |
| So have I cause myself to plain but no cause to complain | U |
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| WILL What care takes she for thee | C |
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| DICK Her care is to prevent | K |
| My freedom with show of her beams with virtue my content | K |
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| WILL God shield us from such dames If so our dames be sped | K |
| The shepherds will grow lean I trow their sheep will be ill fed | K |
| But Dick my counsel mark run from the place of woo | K |
| The arrow being shot from far doth give the smaller blow | V |
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| DICK Good Will I cannot take thy good advice before | W |
| That foxes leave to steal they find they die therefore | W |
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| WILL Then Dick let us go hence lest we great folks annoy | X |
| For nothing can more tedious be than plaint in time of joy | X |
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| DICK Oh hence O cruel word which even dogs do hate | K |
| But hence even hence I must needs go such is my dogged fate | K |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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