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Elizabethan songs "in honour of love and beautie."
Elizabethan songs in honour of love and beautie Author:Edmund Henry Garrett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. ABSENCE. r DEAR life when shall it be That mine eyes thine eyes shall see, And in them thy mind discover Whether absence have ha... more »d force Thy remembrance to divorce From the image of thy lover? Or if I myself find not, After parting, aught forgot Nor debarred from Beauty's treasure, Let not tongue aspire to tell In what high joys I shall dwell: Only thought aims at the pleasure. Thought, therefore I will send thee To take up the place for me : Long I will not after tarry; There, unseen, thou mayst be bold Those fair wonders to behold, Which in them my hopes do carry. Thought, see thou no place forbear; Enter bravely everywhere, Seize on all to her belonging ! But if thou wouldst guarded be, Fearing her beams, take with thee Strength of liking, rage of longing. Think of that most grateful time, When my leaping heart will climb In my lips to have his biding, There those roses for to kiss Which do breathe a sugared bliss, Opening rubies, pearls dividing. Think, think of those dallyings, When with dove-like murmurings, With glad moaning, passed anguish, We change eyes, and heart for heart, Each to other do depart, Joying till joy makes us languish. O my thought! my thoughts surcease, Thy delights my woes increase, My life melts with too much thinking! Think no more, but die in me, Till thou shall revived be, At her lips my nectar drinking. NICHOLAS BRETON. PHILLIDA AND CORY DON. 1555-1624- FN the merry month of May, In a morn by break of day, Forth I walked by the wood-side, When as May was in his pride: There I spied all alone Phillida and Corydon. Much ado there was, God wot; He would love and she would not. She said, " Never man was true ; " He said, " None was false to you." He said h...« less