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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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XVI.

[Since she, ev'n shee, for whom I liv'd]

Since she, ev'n shee, for whom I liv'd,
Sweet she by Fate from me is torne,
Why am not I of sence depriv'd,
Forgetting I was ever borne?
Why should I languish, hating light?
Better to sleepe an endlesse night.
Be 't eyther true, or aptly fain'd,
That some of Lethes water write,
'Tis their best med'cine that are pain'd
All thought to loose of past delight.
O would my anguish vanish so!
Happy are they that neyther know.
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