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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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[Poems and Songs from the Masques]
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TREATISES
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DOUBTFUL POEMS
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A BOOKE OF AYRES, PART II
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THE AYRES THAT WERE SUNG AND PLAYED, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment:
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POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
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2. A Hymne in praise of Neptune.
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4. Dolus
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[My deerest mistrisse, let us live and love]

My deerest mistrisse, let us live and love,
And care not what old doting fools reprove.
Let us not feare their censures, nor esteeme
What they of us and of our loves shall deeme.
Old ages critticke and censorious brow
Cannot of youthful dalliance alow,
Nor ever could endure that we should tast
Of those delights which they themselves are past.
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