Love
Thus saith my Galatea
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Thus saith my Galatea:
Love long hath been deluded,
When shall it be concluded?
The young nymphs all are wedded:
Ah, then why do I tarry?
Oh, let me die or marry.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Morley's First Book of Ballets to Five Voices, 1595.
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