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 |
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A Song of three Voyces with divers Instruments.
1
Night as well as brightest day hath her delight.Let us then with mirth and Musicke decke the night;
Never did glad day such store
Of joy to night bequeath:
Her Starres then adore,
Both in Heav'n and here beneath.
2
Love and beautie, mirth and Musicke, yeeld true joyes,Though the Cynickes in their folly count them toyes.
Raise your spirits nere so high,
They will be apt to fall:
None brave thoughts envie,
Who had ere brave thought at all.
3
Joy is the sweete friend of life, the nurse of blood,Patron of all health, and fountaine of all good:
Never may joy hence depart,
But all your thoughts attend;
Nought can hurt the heart
That retaines so sweete a friend.
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