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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
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THE FOURTH BOOKE
  
TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Mr. JOHN MOUNSON,
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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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XI.

[What meanes this folly, now to brave it so]

What meanes this folly, now to brave it so,
And then to use submission?
Is that a friend that straight can play the foe?
Who loves on such condition?
Though Bryers breede Roses, none the Bryer affect,
But with the flowre are pleased.
Love onely loves delight and soft respect:
He must not be diseased.
These thorny passions spring from barren breasts,
Or such as neede much weeding.
Love onely loves delight and soft respect;
But sends them not home bleeding.
Command thy humour, strive to give content,
And shame not loves profession.
Of kindnesse never any could repent
That made choyse with discretion.
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