Love
Brown is my Love, but graceful
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Brown is my Love, but graceful:
And each renowned whiteness
Match'd with thy lovely brown loseth its brightness.
Fair is my Love, but scornful:
Yet have I seen despised
Dainty white lilies, and sad flowers well prized.
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Codex Note
From the Second Book of Musica Transalpina, 1597.
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