Love
Like two proud armies marching in the field
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Like two proud armies marching in the field,—
Joining a thund'ring fight, each scorns to yield,—
So in my heart your beauty and my reason:
One claims the crown, the other says 'tis treason.
But oh! your beauty shineth as the sun;
And dazzled reason yields as quite undone.
Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals of Six Parts, 1600.
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