The canticles or Balades of Salomon phraselyke declared in Englysh Metres, by William Baldwin |
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xlii. The Spouse to the Younglynges.
The argument.
The Church at the Younglynges request, describeth her beloued in .iii. songes, syngyng.
Christe God and man (ye young) yf ye know not,
Is suche an one as hath in hym no spot.
My Loue ye shall vnderstand,
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
Is suche an one as hath in hym no spot.
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
His head the father, God the most of myght,
Is golde, of nature perfect, pure and bryght.
My Loue ye shall vnderstand,
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
Is golde, of nature perfect, pure and bryght.
My Loue ye shall vnderstand,
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
His heares, his truthes, are lyke the Palmetree bowe,
Crow blacke to suche as wyll them not allow.
My Loue ye shal vnderstand,
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
Crow blacke to suche as wyll them not allow.
My Loue ye shal vnderstand,
Is whyte in diuinitie, Red in humanitie,
Chosen among a thousand.
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