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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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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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XIII.
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

[Aye me, that love should natures workes accuse!]

Aye me, that love should natures workes accuse!
Where cruell Laura still her beautie viewes,
River, or cloudie jet, or christall bright,
Are all but servants of her selfe-delight.
Yet her deformed thoughts she cannot see,
And thats the cause she is so sterne to mee.
Vertue and duetie can no favour gaine:
O griefe, a death, to live and love in vaine!
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