Death & Dying
Your shining eyes and golden hair
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Death & Dying
Your shining eyes and golden hair,
Your lily-rosed lips so fair;
Your various beauties which excel,
Men cannot choose but like them well:
Yet when for them they say they'll die,
Believe them not,—they do but lie.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals, 1604.
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