Death & Dying
Inconstant Laura makes me death to crave
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Death & Dying
Inconstant Laura makes me death to crave,
For wanting her I must embrace my grave;
A little grave will ease my malady
And set me free from love's fell tyranny.
Intomb me then and show her where I lie,
And say I died through her inconstancy.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Greaves' Songs of Sundry Kinds, 1604.
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