Love
Shall I abide this jesting?
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Shall I abide this jesting?
I weep, and she's a-feasting!
O cruel fancy, that so doth blind me
To love one that doth not mind me!
Can I abide this prancing?
I weep, and she's a-dancing!
O cruel fancy, so to betray me!
Thou goest about to slay me.
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Codex Note
From Richard Alison's An Hours Recreation in Music, 1606.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Shall I abide this jesting?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/112/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Shall I abide this jesting?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/112/.
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