Love
Sweet heart, arise! why do you sleep
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Sweet heart, arise! why do you sleep
When lovers wanton sports do keep?
The sun doth shine, the birds do sing,
And May delight and joy doth bring:
Then join we hands and dance till night,
'Tis pity love should want his right.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Ballets and Madrigals, 1598.
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