Lyrics From the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

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"[21] No, no, these are but bugs to breed amazing, For in her eyes I saw his torch-light blazing.
[21] Old form of "whither. " From THOMAS MORLEY's _First Book of Ballets to Five Voices_, 1595.
    Thus saith my Galatea: Love long hath been deluded, When shall it be concluded?
    The young nymphs all are wedded: Ah, then why do I tarry? Oh, let me die or marry.
From THOMAS CAMPION's _Fourth Book of Airs_ (circ. 1613).
    To his sweet lute Apollo sang the motions of the spheres, The wondrous o
...rders of the stars whose course divides the years, And all the mysteries above; But none of this could Midas move: Which purchased him his ass's ears.
    Then Pan with his rude pipe began the country wealth t' advance, To boast of cattle, flocks of sheep, and goats on hills that dance, With much more of this churlish kind, That quite transported Midas' mind, And held him wrapt in trance.
    This wrong the God of Music scorned from such a sottish judge, And bent his angry bow at Pan, which made the piper trudge: Then Midas' head he so did trim That every age yet talks of him And Ph[oe]bus' right reveng


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