Note 1215 — Robert Greene THE HONORABLE HISTORIE OF FRIER BACON
Reading edition
July 1 or November 2:—
"Ah, what is love? It is a prettie thing As sweete unto a shepheard as a king."
—The Shepheard's Wife's Song, as in Dyce, p. 305.
Grosart's transcript of Q. 1616 (IX. 144) accidentally omits all but the last two lines of this song.