by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down
Language: English
Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down With a ‘No’ or with a frown? Since Love holds my heart in bands I must do as Love commands. Love commands the hands to dare When the tongue of speech is spare, Chiefest lesson in Love’s school, — Put it in adventure, fool! Fools are they that fainting flinch For a squeak, a scratch, a pinch: Women’s words have double sense: ‘Stand away!’ — a simple fence. If thy mistress swear she’ll cry, Fear her not, she’ll swear and lie: Such sweet oaths no sorrow bring Till the prick of conscience sting.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 129.
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Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Jones (fl. 1597-1615), "Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down", published 1608, from the collection Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 16
Word count: 100