Love
Who prostrate lies at women's feet
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Who prostrate lies at women's feet.
And calls them darlings dear and sweet;
Protesting love, and craving grace,
And praising oft a foolish face;
Are oftentimes deceived at last,
Then catch at nought and hold it fast.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals, 1604.
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