PASTORAL: UPON HIS MEETING WITH TWO WORTHY FRIENDS ... DYER & GREVILLE by PHILIP SIDNEY

Join mates in mirth to me,
Grant pleasure to our meeting;
Let Pan, our good god, see
How grateful is our greeting.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Ye hymns and singing skill
Of god Apollo's giving,
Be prest our reeds to fill
With sound of music living.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Sweet Orpheus' harp, whose sound
The steadfast mountains moved,
Let here thy skill abound,
To join sweet friends beloved.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

My two and I be met,
A happy blessed trinity,
As three most jointly set
In firmest band of unity.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Welcome, my two, to me, E.D. F.G. P.S.
The number best beloved,
Within my heart you be
In friendship unremoved.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Give leave your flocks to range,
Let us the while be playing,
Within the elmy grange
Your flocks will not be straying.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Cause all the mirth you can,
Since I am now come hether,
Who never joy, but when
I am with you together.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Like lovers do their love,
So joy I in you seeing;
Let nothing me remove
From always with you being.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

And as the turtle dove
To mate with whom he liveth,
Such comfort fervent love
Of you to my heart giveth.
@3Join hearts and hands, so let it be,
Make but one mind in bodies three@1.

Now joined be our hands,
Let them be ne'er asunder,
But linked in binding bands
By metamorphosed wonder.
@3So should our severed bodies three
As one forever joined be@1.

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