Do you not know how Love lost first his seeing?
Because with me once gazing
On those fair eyes where all powers have their being,
She with her beauty blazing,
Which death might have revivèd,
Him of his sight and me of heart deprivèd.

Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 21.

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602), "Do you not know how Love lost first his seeing?", published 1593 [ vocal trio ], from Canzonets, or Little Short Songs to Three Voices, no. 16, London: Thomas Este [sung text checked 1 time]

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