The royal shepherd's happy life. To the tune of, The yellow-hair'd laddie: or, Jenney milking the ewes. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05054 of text R187825 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R2152D). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B05054 Wing R2152D ESTC R187825 52614902 ocm 52614902 176068 2240898860

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B05054) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176068) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2761:9) The royal shepherd's happy life. To the tune of, The yellow-hair'd laddie: or, Jenney milking the ewes. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Scotland : ca. 1700?] Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by National Library of Scotland. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Ballads, Scots -- 17th century. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo The royal shepherd's happy life. To the tune of, The yellow-hair'd laddie: or, Jenney milking the ewes,. [no entry] 1700 1 301 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Royal Shepherd's Happy Life . To the Tune of , The Yellow-hair'd Laddie : Or , Jenney Milking the Ewes , (1) HOw sweet was the time when we keeped our Flocks In Shades of the Mountains , and Coverts of Rocks ? How sweet were our Nights ? how pleasant our Days ? When we sing till we slept , and pip'd when we raise . (2) Green Turf was our Bed , and for Break-fast we did The Acorn and Earth-nut , and Sallad provide : We drank others Healths in the murmuring Stream , And chanted our Notes to Phillis her Name , (3) How Glorious was I , when dress'd by thy Hands , With a Crown made of Lawrel , and Bays of green Wands ; With a Robe made of Rushes , and a Sword of the same . No Caesar more happy , triumphing in Fame . (4) My Hook was my Scepter , my Club was my Sword ; My Scrip was my purse ; these laid on the Board I presided in Council , o're my Loyal Band ; My Serjants and Macers were still at Command . (5) And thou my sweet Princess , how lovely's they Grace ? Thy Mantle of Cyprus , and Gown of the Grass ; Thy Bracelets of Dazies , with the Buds of the Rose ; Never Nimph was so charming amongst her proud shows ; (6) We kissed , embraced , and never had done , From rising to setting , and rising of Sun ; If the day had been a Year , we never had pain : Call back the sweet time , dear Phillis again . FINIS .