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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[If I urge my kinde desires]
If I urge my kinde desires,
She unkind doth them reject;
Womens hearts are painted fires
To deceive them that affect.
I alone loves fires include,
Shee alone doth them delude.
She unkind doth them reject;
Womens hearts are painted fires
To deceive them that affect.
I alone loves fires include,
Shee alone doth them delude.
Shee hath often vow'd her love,
But, alas, no fruit I finde.
That her fires are false I prove,
Yet in her no fault I finde:
I was thus unhappy borne,
And ordain'd to be her scorne.
But, alas, no fruit I finde.
That her fires are false I prove,
Yet in her no fault I finde:
I was thus unhappy borne,
And ordain'd to be her scorne.
Yet if humane care, or paine,
May the heav'nly order change,
She will hate her owne disdaine,
And repent she was so strange:
For a truer heart then I
Never liv'd, or lov'd to die.
May the heav'nly order change,
She will hate her owne disdaine,
And repent she was so strange:
For a truer heart then I
Never liv'd, or lov'd to die.
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