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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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, BOTH in Birth and Vertue, FRANCIS, Earle of CUMBERLAND.
What Patron could I chuse, great Lord, but you?
Grave words your years may challenge as their owne,
And ev'ry note of Musicke is your due,
Whose House the Muses pallace I have knowne.
Grave words your years may challenge as their owne,
And ev'ry note of Musicke is your due,
Whose House the Muses pallace I have knowne.
To love and cherish them, though it descends
With many honours more on you, in vaine
Preceding fame herein with you contends,
Who have both fed the Muses, and their trayne.
With many honours more on you, in vaine
Preceding fame herein with you contends,
Who have both fed the Muses, and their trayne.
These Leaves I offer you, Devotion might
Her selfe lay open, reade them, or else heare
How gravely with their tunes they yeeld delight
To any vertuous, and not curious eare.
Such as they are accept them, Noble Lord;
If better, better could my zeale afford.
Her selfe lay open, reade them, or else heare
How gravely with their tunes they yeeld delight
To any vertuous, and not curious eare.
Such as they are accept them, Noble Lord;
If better, better could my zeale afford.
Your Honors, THOMAS CAMPIAN.
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