Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 1607
70. There is a Lady sweet and kind Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds
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THERE is a Lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.

Her gesture, motion, and her smiles, Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles, Beguiles my heart, I know not why, And yet I love her till I die.

Cupid is winged and doth range, Her country so my love doth change: But change she earth, or change she sky, Yet will I love her till I die.

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Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 1609
71. Love not me for comely grace John Wilbye's Second Set of Madrigals
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