Love
April is in my mistress' face
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
April is in my mistress' face,
And July in her eyes hath place;
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Morley's First Book of Madrigals, 1594.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “April is in my mistress' face.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/13/.
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