Love
Farewell, my joy!
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Farewell, my joy!
Adieu, my love and pleasure!
To sport and toy
We have no longer leisure.
Fa la la!
Farewell, adieu
Until our next consorting!
Sweet love, be true!
And thus we end our sporting.
Fa la la!
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Ballets and Madrigals, 1598.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Farewell, my joy!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/36/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Farewell, my joy!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/36/.
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