Love
Thrice blessed be the giver
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Thrice blessed be the giver
That gave sweet love that golden quiver,
And live he long among the gods anointed
That made the arrow-heads sharp-pointed:
If either of them both had quailed,
She of my love and I of hers had failed.
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Codex Note
From Giles Farnaby's Canzonets, 1598.
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