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Madrigal
What Love shall provide for him
Love, I demand to have my lady in fee.
Fine balm let Arno be;
The walls of Florence all of silver rear'd,
And crystal pavements in the public way.
Fine balm let Arno be;
The walls of Florence all of silver rear'd,
And crystal pavements in the public way.
With castles make me fear'd,
Till every Latin soul have owned my sway.
Till every Latin soul have owned my sway.
Be the world peaceful; safe throughout each path;
No neighbour to breed wrath;
The air, summer and winter, temperate.
No neighbour to breed wrath;
The air, summer and winter, temperate.
A thousand dames and damsels richly clad
Upon my choice to wait,
Singing by day and night to make me glad.
Upon my choice to wait,
Singing by day and night to make me glad.
Let me have fruitful gardens of great girth,
Filled with the strife of birds,
With water-springs, and beasts that house i'the earth.
Filled with the strife of birds,
With water-springs, and beasts that house i'the earth.
Let me seem Solomon for lore of words,
Samson for strength, for beauty Absalom.
Samson for strength, for beauty Absalom.
Knights as my serfs be given;
And as I will, let music go and come;
Till at the last thou bring me into Heaven.
And as I will, let music go and come;
Till at the last thou bring me into Heaven.
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