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When to her lute Corinna sings,
Her voice revives the leaden strings,
And both in highest notes appear,
As any challeng'd echo clear.
But when she doth of mourning speak,
Ev’n with her sighs the strings do break.

— Thomas Campion A Book of Ayres (1601)

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I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature art disdaineth;
Her beauty is her own.

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Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?

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Hark, all you ladies that do sleep;
The fairy Queen Proserpina
Bids you awake and pity them that weep.

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Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
That she in peace may wake and pity me.

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Follow your Saint, follow with accents sweet;
Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

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