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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
  
[dedication]
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XXI. Come, let us sound with melody the praises
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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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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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II.

[Though you are yoong and I am olde]

Though you are yoong and I am olde,
Though your vaines hot and my bloud colde,
Though youth is moist and age is drie,
Yet embers live when flames doe die.
The tender graft is easely broke,
But who shall shake the sturdie Oke?
You are more fresh and faire then I,
Yet stubs doe live, when flowers doe die.
Thou that thy youth doest vainely boast,
Know buds are soonest nipt with frost;
Thinke that thy fortune still doth crie,
Thou foole, tomorrow thou must die.
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