Living
Come Buy, Come Buy
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Lawn as white as driven snow;
Cypress black as e'er was crow;
Gloves as sweet as damask roses;
Masks for faces, and for noses;
Bugle-bracelet, necklace-amber,
Perfume for a lady's chamber:
Golden quoifs and stomachers,
For my lads to give their dears;
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel:
Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;
Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry:
Come buy.
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Shakespeare, William. “Come Buy, Come Buy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/211/.
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Shakespeare, William. “Come Buy, Come Buy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/211/.
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