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Key to Closet -

There is a key.
There is a key to a closet that opens the drawer. And she keeps both so that neither money nor candy will go suddenly, Fancy, baby, new year. She keeps both so that neither money nor candy will go suddenly, Fancy baby New Year, fancy baby mine, fancy.

Parrot's Soliloquy -

Parrot
My name is Parrot, a bird of paradise,
By nature devised of a wonderous kinde,
Dientely dieted with divers dilicate spice,
Til Euphrates, that flode, driveth me into Inde;
Where men of that countrey by fortune me find,
And send me to greate ladies of estate:
Than Parot must have an almon or a date;

A cage curiously carven; with silver pin,
Properly painted, to be my covertoure;
A mirrour of glasse, that I may toote therin;
These maidens ful mekely with many a divers flowre
Freshly they dresse and make swete my bowre,

Speak, Parrot

My name is Parrot, a bird of Paradise,
By nature devised of a wonderous kind,
Daintily dieted with divers delicate spice
Till Euphrates, that flood, driveth me into Ind;
Where men of that country by fortune me find
And send me to great─ù lady─ùs of estate:
Then Parrot must have an almond or a date.

A cage curiously carven, with a silver pin,
Properly painted, to be my coverture;
A mirror of glass─ù, that I may toot therein:

Song -

Trip it, gipsies, trip it fine,
— Show tricks and lofty capers;
At threading-needles we repine,
— And leaping over rapiers:
Pindy-pandy rascal toys,
— We scorn cutting purses;
Though we live by making noise,
— For cheating none can curse us.

Over high ways, over low,
— And over stones and gravel,
Though we trip it on the toe,
— And thus for silver travel:
Though our dances waste our backs,
— At night fat capons mend them;
Eggs well brewed in buttered sack,
— Our wenches say befriend them.

The Spanish Descent

Long had this nation been amused in vain
With posts from Portugal, and news from Spain,
With Ormond's conquests, and the fleet's success,
And favors from the Moors at Maccaness.
The learned mob bought compasses and scales,
And every barber knew the Bay of Cales,
Showed us the army here, and there the fleet,
Here the troops land, and there the foes retreat,
There at St. Maries how the Spaniard runs,
And listen close as if they heard the guns,
And some pretend they see them swive the nuns.

November -

NOVEMBER .

The mellow year is hasting to its close;
The little birds have almost sung their last,
Their small notes twitter in the dreary blast —
That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows:
The patient beauty of the scentless rose,
Oft with the Morn's hoar chrystal quaintly glass'd,
Hangs, a pale mourner for the summer past,
And makes a little summer where it grows:
In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day
The dusky waters shudder as they shine,
The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way

Only He Who Mourns Her and Heaven That Possesses Her Knew Her While She Lived -

Ah, Death, it is you that have left the world cold and shady, with no sun over it. It's you have left Love without eyes or arms to him, you've left liveliness stripped, and beauty without a shape to her, and all courtesy in chains, and honesty thrown down into a hole. I am making lamentation alone, though it isn't myself only has a cause to be crying out; since you, Death, have crushed the first seed of goodness in the whole world, and with it gone what place will we find a second?