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THE COURTIER'S GOOD MORROW TO HIS MISTRESS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: CANST THOU LOVE AND LIE ALONE?
Last Line: ONLY I THAT MOURN OUT
Subject(s): LOVE;

Canst thou love and lie alone?
Love is so disgraced.
Pleasure is best wherein is rest
In a heart embraced.
Rise, rise, rise!
Daylight do not burn out!
Bells do ring and birds do sing;
Only I that mourn out.
Morning star doth now appear.
Wind is hushed and sky is clear:
Come, come away! come, come away!
Canst thou love and burn out day?
Rise, rise, rise!
Daylight do not burn out!
Bells do ring and birds do sing;
Only I that mourn out.



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