Love
Each day of thine, sweet month of May
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Each day of thine, sweet month of May,
Love makes a solemn holyday:
I will perform like duty,
Since thou resemblest every way
Astraea, Queen of Beauty.
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Codex Note
From Henry Youll's Canzonets to three Voices, 1608.
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