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VALSE JEUNE by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

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First Line: ARE THERE FAVORING LADIES ABOVE THEE?
Last Line: AULTRE N'AURAY!

ARE there favoring ladies above thee?
Are there dowries and lands? Do they say
Seven others are fair? But I love thee:
Aultre n'auray!

All the sea is a lawn in our country;
All the morrow, our star of delay.
I am King: let me live on thy bounty!
Aultre n'auray!

To the fingers so light and so rosy
That have pinioned my heart, (welladay!)
Be a kiss, be a ring with this posy:
Aultre n'auray!



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