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I always loved to call my lady Rose
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
I always loved to call my lady Rose,
For in her cheeks roses do sweetly glose,
And from her lips she such sweet odours threw
As roses do 'gainst Phoebus' morning-view:
But when I thought to pull't, hope was bereft me,—
My rose was gone and naught but prickles left me.
Codex Note
From Henry Lichfild's First Set of Madrigals, 1613.
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