Love
Take here my heart, I give it thee for ever!
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Take here my heart, I give it thee for ever!
No better pledge can love to love deliver.
Fear not, my dear, it will not fly away,
For hope and love command my heart to stay.
But if thou doubt, desire will make it range:
Love but my heart, my heart will never change.
Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals of Five and Six Parts, 1600.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Take here my heart, I give it thee for ever!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/131/.
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