| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Thomas Heywood. 157?–1650 |
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| 205. Matin Song |
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| PACK, clouds, away! and welcome, day! | |
| With night we banish sorrow. | |
| Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft | |
| To give my Love good-morrow! | |
| Wings from the wind to please her mind, | 5 |
| Notes from the lark I'll borrow: | |
| Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing! | |
| To give my Love good-morrow! | |
| To give my Love good-morrow | |
| Notes from them all I'll borrow. | 10 |
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| Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast! | |
| Sing, birds, in every furrow! | |
| And from each bill let music shrill | |
| Give my fair Love good-morrow! | |
| Blackbird and thrush in every bush, | 15 |
| Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow, | |
| You pretty elves, among yourselves | |
| Sing my fair Love good-morrow! | |
| To give my Love good-morrow! | |
| Sing, birds, in every furrow! | 20 |
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