Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone is an English madrigal composed by John Farmer in 1599. The song describes a person who saw a young shepherdess sitting alone feeding her sheep near a mountain. The other shepherds did not know where she was at the time. Her lover, Amyntas, goes looking for her and wanders through the hills playing hide and seek. Eventually he finds her, and when he does, they fall down and start kissing.

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Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
feeding her flock near to the mountainside
The shepherds knew not whither she was gone,
but after her lover Amyntas hied.
Up and down he wandered whilst she was missing.
When he found her, O then they fell a kissing!