Note 37 — NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
It begins thus.
Nights were short, and daies were long, Blossoms on the hauthorns hong; Philomel, night-musickes kinge, Tolde the comming of the springe, &c.
He does not scruple to insert these lines,
Loue I did the fairest boy, That these fields did ere enioy. Loue I did faire Ganymed, Venus darling, beauties bed, &c.
This piece was afterwards inserted in Englands Helicon.