Love

My hope a counsel with my heart

by Anonymous (Elizabethan songs) c. 1588–1630

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)

Love

My hope a counsel with my heart
Hath long desired to be,
And marvels much so dear a friend
Is not retain'd by me.

She doth condemn my haste
In passing the estate
Of my whole life into their hands
Who nought repays but hate:

And not sufficed with this, she says,
I did release the right
Of my enjoyed liberties
Unto your beauteous sight.

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From Michael Este's Madrigals of Three, Four and Five Parts, 1604.

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