Love
Lady, the birds right fairly
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Love
Lady, the birds right fairly
Are singing ever early;
The lark, the thrush, the nightingale,
The make-sport cuckoo and the quail.
These sing of Love! then why sleep ye?
To love your sleep it may not be.
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Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals of Five and Six Parts, 1600.
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