Hark! Did ye ever hear

Hark!

Did ye ever hear so sweet,

so sweet a singing?

They sing young love to waken, to waken,

The nymphs unto the woods,

their queen are bringing.

There was a note well taken,

Hark! O good!

O most divine,

O most divinely dittied:

a queen and song

most excellent,

most excellently fitted.

I never saw,

I never saw a fairer,

I never heard a rarer.

Then sung the nymphs and shepherds of Diana:

Long live fair Oriana!