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MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: MASQUERS SECOND DANCE by THOMAS CAMPION

Poet Analysis

First Line: LET US NOW SING OF LOVES DELIGHT
Last Line: THAT FADES NOT STRAIGHT, BUT LEAVES A LIVING JOY BEHIND.

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

Chorus.

@3That pleasure is of all most bountiful and kind,
That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind.@1



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