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First Line: Let us now sing of loves delight
Last Line: That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind.


1. Let us now sing of Love's delight,
For he alone is lord to-night.
2. Some friendship between man and man prefer,
But I th' affection between man and wife.
3. What good can be in life,
Whereof no fruits appear?
1. Set is that tree in ill hour,
That yields neither fruit nor flower.
2. How can man perpetual be,
But in his own posterity?

Chorus.

That pleasure is of all most bountiful and kind,
That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind.





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