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The Works of Thomas Campion

Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises with a Selection of the Latin Verse: Edited with an introduction and notes by Walter R. Davis
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620)

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SONGS AND POEMS
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SONGS APPENDED TO SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA
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A BOOKE OF AYRES, 1601
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TWO BOOKES OF AYRES.
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Songs of Mourning: BEWAILING
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THE THIRD AND FOURTH BOOKE OF AYRES:
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THE THIRD BOOKE
  
TO MY HONOURABLE FRIEND, Sr. THOMAS MOUNSON, KNIGHT AND BARONET.
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THE FOURTH BOOKE
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OCCASIONAL POEMS
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[Poems and Songs from the Masques]
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TREATISES
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DOUBTFUL POEMS

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XXIX.

[Shall I then hope when faith is fled?]

Shall I then hope when faith is fled?
Can I seeke love when hope is gone?
Or can I live when Love is dead?
Poorely hee lives, that can love none.
Her vowes are broke, and I am free;
Shee lost her faith in loosing mee.
When I compare mine owne events,
When I weigh others like annoy,
All doe but heape up discontents
That on a beauty build their joy.
Thus I of all complaine, since shee
All faith hath lost in loosing mee.
So my deare freedome have I gain'd
Through her unkindnesse and disgrace;
Yet could I ever live enchain'd,
As shee my service did embrace.
But shee is chang'd, and I am free:
Faith failing her, Love dyed in mee.
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