The Fairie Queene Proserpina

Hark, all you ladies that do sleep
The fairy-queen Proserpina
Bids you awake and pity them that weep
You may do in the dark
What the day doth forbid
Fear not the dogs that bark
Night will have all hid
You may do in the dark
What the day doth forbid
Fear not the dogs that bark
Night will have all hid

But if you let your lovers moan
The fairy-queen Proserpina
Will send abroad her fairies every one
That shall pinch black and blue
Your white hands and fair arms
That did not kindly rue
Your paramours' harms
That shall pinch black and blue
Your white hands and fair arms
That did not kindly rue
Your paramours' harms

In myrtle arbours on the downs
The fairy-queen Proserpina
This night by moonshine leading merry rounds
Holds a watch with sweet love
Down the dale, up the hill
No plaints or groans may move
Their holy vigil
Holds a watch with sweet love
Down the dale, up the hill
No plaints or groans may move
Their holy vigil

All you that will hold watch with love
The fairy-queen Proserpina
Will make you fairer than Diana's dove
Roses red, lilies white
And the clear damask hue
Shall on your cheeks alight
Love will adorn you

All you that love, or loved before
The fairy-queen Proserpina
Bids you increase that loving humour more
They that have not yet fed
On delight amorous
She vows that they shall lead
Apes in Avernus
They that have not yet fed
On delight amorous
She vows that they shall lead
Apes in Avernus