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.
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Anonymous. Ascribed to Herrick in the Scottish Student's Song-Book. Found on back of leaf 53 of Popish Kingdome or reigne of Antichrist, in Latin verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and Englished by Barnabe Googe. Printed 1570. See Notes and Queries, s. ix, x, 427. Lines from Bullen, Elizabethan Song-books, p. 31. Reprinted from Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds (1607)