Ayres and dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces. By Henry Lawes ... The First Booke |
To the same Lady, singing the former Song.
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To the same Lady, singing the former Song.
Cloris your selfe you so excellCloris your selfe you so excell, when you vouchsafe to breath my thought that like a spirit with this spell of mine own teaching I am caught. That Eagle's Fate and mine is one, that on the shaft that made him dye, espy'd a Feather of his own, wherewith he wont to soare so high. Had Eccho with so swete a grace, Narcissus lowd complaints return'd, not for reflection of his face, but of his voyce the boy had mourn'd.
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