And he sayde vnto him: my lorde knoweth that I haue tendre childern/ ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande/ which yf men shulde ouerdryue but euen one daye/ the hole flocke wolde dye.
I haue bene wyth the/ thy shepe and thy gootes haue not bene baren/ and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eat[~e].
Help vs to sing that be her faithful swains Row: O she alone the shepheards Queen, Cho: Her Flocke that leades, The goddesse of these medes, These mountaines and these plaines.
And haue a Flocke of Turtle Doues, A guard on vs to keepe, A witnesse of our honest loues, To watch vs till we sleepe.
In the meane while there came vnto our fort a flocke of stocke-doues in so great number that for the space of seuen weeks together, that euery day wee killed with harquebush shot two hundred in the woods about our fort.
Billington killed them both and tyed them together, and following after the flocke had another shot at them, and by a good Providence hurte three more.
Their spirits are so married in Coniunction, with the participation of Society, that theyflocke together in consent, like so many Wilde-Geese.
And some of that flocke I heir to be so extremelie handled, that those that most cruellie have shed the blood of Goddis most deare childrein, find this day amangis you greattar favouris then thei do.
Now 'mongst this Flocke of drunkards Am I put to our Cassio in some Action That may offend the Isle.
In Kent, my Liege, the Guilfords are in Armes, And euery houre more Competitors Flocke to the Rebels, and their power growes strong.
O she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of loue but to a brother, How will she loue, when the rich golden shaft Hath kill'd the flocke of all affections else That liue in her.
Come on, And bid vs welcome to your sheepe-shearing, As your goodflocke shall prosper Perd.
If I do not beate thee out of thy Kingdome with a dagger of Lath, and driue all thy Subiects afore thee like a flocke of Wilde-geese, Ile neuer weare haire on my face more.
Or if thou lov'st to hear sweet melodie, Or pipe a round upon an oaten reede, Or make thyselfe glad with some myrthfull glee, Or play them musicke whilst thy flocke doth feede.
Not long sithence, there came a flockeof Birds into Cornwall, about Haruest season, in bignesse not much exceeding a Sparrow, which made a foule spoyle of the Apples.
But, amongst all the rest, the Inhabitants are most beholden to the Woodcockes, who (when the season of the yeere affordeth) flocke to them in great aboundance.
The while my flocke did feede thereby; The while the shepheard selfe did spill.
If to theflocke he come, and Abell there, She faines hoarse barkings, but she biteth not, Her faith is quite, but not her love forgot.
Though for a season this shepheard bode a blast, The greatest winde yet slaketh at the last, And at conclusion he and his flocke certayne Eche true to other did quietly remayne.
The second, that no bishop should intermedle in an others diocesse, but be contented with the cure of his flocke committed to him.
A brace of years he lived thus, well pleased so to live, 50 And shepherd-like to feed a flocke himselfe did wholly give.
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