70. There is a Lady sweet and kind
Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds

Numbers from Elizabethan Miscellanies & Song-books by Unnamed or Uncertain Authors. 1607


THERE is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Her gesture, motion, and her smiles,
Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles,
Beguiles my heart, I know not why,
And yet I love her till I die.

Cupid is winged and doth range,
Her country so my love doth change:
But change she earth, or change she sky,
Yet will I love her till I die.

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