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Page 11
O stay and hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip
no farther , pretty sweeting , Journeys end in lovers ' meetingEvery wise man's
son doth know . What is love ? ' tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present ...
O stay and hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip
no farther , pretty sweeting , Journeys end in lovers ' meetingEvery wise man's
son doth know . What is love ? ' tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present ...
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Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! "It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a
tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No
, and would full fain ! And this is love , as I hear saine . " Yet , shepherd , what is ...
Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! "It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a
tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain , The lass saith , No
, and would full fain ! And this is love , as I hear saine . " Yet , shepherd , what is ...
Page 20
"It is a “ yea , ” it is a nay , A pretty kind of sporting fray ; It is a thing will soon away
; Then , nymphs , take vantage while ye may , And this is love , as I hear say . “
Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! ” – A thing that creeps , it cannot go ,
A ...
"It is a “ yea , ” it is a nay , A pretty kind of sporting fray ; It is a thing will soon away
; Then , nymphs , take vantage while ye may , And this is love , as I hear say . “
Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! ” – A thing that creeps , it cannot go ,
A ...
Page 50
But now our fears tempestuous grow And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you ,
regardless of our wo , Sit careless at a play : Perhaps permit some happier man
To kiss your hand , or flirt your fan . When any mournful tune you hear , That dies
in ...
But now our fears tempestuous grow And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you ,
regardless of our wo , Sit careless at a play : Perhaps permit some happier man
To kiss your hand , or flirt your fan . When any mournful tune you hear , That dies
in ...
Page 51
And now we've told you all our loves , And likewise all our fears , In hopes this
declaration moves Some pity for our tears ; Let's hear of no inconstancy , We
have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of
Dorset ...
And now we've told you all our loves , And likewise all our fears , In hopes this
declaration moves Some pity for our tears ; Let's hear of no inconstancy , We
have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of
Dorset ...
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| Title | Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors Volume 21 of Minerva library of famous books The Minerva Library Volume 21 of The Minerva library of famous books. Ed. by G. T. Bettany. [v. 21] |
| Editors | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 425 pages |
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