Love
Wake, sleepy Thyrsis, wake
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Wake, sleepy Thyrsis, wake
For Love and Venus' sake!
Come, let us mount the hills
Which Zephyrus with cool breath fills;
Or let us tread new alleys,
In yonder shady valleys.
Rise, rise, rise, rise!
Lighten thy heavy eyes:
See how the streams do glide
And the green meads divide:
But stream nor fire shall part
This and this joined heart.
Codex Note
From Francis Pilkington's Second Set of Madrigals, 1624.
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