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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
 1. 
CANTO PRIMO.
 2. 
CANTO SECUNDO.
 3. 
CANTO TERTIO.
 4. 
CANTO QUARTO.
 5. 
CANTO QUINTO.
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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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CANTO PRIMO.

Harke, all you Ladies that doo sleepe:
The Fairie Queene Proserpina
Bids you awake, and pitie them that weepe:
You may doo in the darke
What the day doth forbid:
Feare not the doggs that barke,
Night will have all hid.
But if you let your Lovers mone,
The Fairie Queene Proserpina
Will send abroad hir Fairies everie one,
That shall pinch blacke and blew
Your white hands and faire armes,
That did not kindly rewe
Your Paramours harmes.
In myrtle arbours on the downes,
The Fairie Queene Proserpina,
This night by Moone shine leading merrie rounds,
Holds a watch with sweete Love;
Downe the dale, up the hill,
No plaints nor grieves may move
Their holy vigill.
All you that will hold watch with Love,
The Fairie Queene Proserpina
Will make you fairer than Dianas Dove;
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Roses red, Lillies white,
And the cleere damaske hue,
Shall on your cheekes alight:
Love will adorne you.
All you that love, or lov'd before,
The Fairie Queene Proserpina
Bids you increase that loving humour more:
They that have not yet fed
On delight amorous,
She vowes that they shall lead
Apes in Avernus.
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