 | Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, First composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices by John Wilson |  |
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[Since Love hath in thine and mine]
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Since Love hath in thine and mineEye Kindled a holy flame,
What Pitty 'twere to let it dye,
What sinne to quench the same.
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The starres that seeme extinct by day,Disclose their flames at night,
And in a Subtile sence convey
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So when the Jealous Eye and Eare,Are shut or turn'd a side:
Our tongues, our Eyes may talke nor feare
The being heard or spy'd.
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What though our bodies cannot meete,Loves fuell's more divine,
The fixt starres by their twinkling greete,
And yet they never joyne.
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Falle Meteors that doe change their place,Though they seem fair and bright,
Yet when they covet to embrace,
Fall downe and loose their light.
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If thou perceive thy flame decay,Come light thine Eyes at mine:
And when I feele mine fade away,
I'le take new fire from thine.
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Thus while wee shall preserve from wast,The flame of our desires,
No Vestall shall maintaine more chast,
Or more Immortall fires.
| Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, First composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices by John Wilson | |