by Thomas Dekker (c1572 - 1632)
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes
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Language: English
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise: Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is heavy, therefore sleep you; You are care and care must keep you: Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissil, London, 1632. Modernized spelling.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Dekker (c1572 - 1632), "The song", appears in The Pleasant Comoedy of Patient Grissill, first published 1603 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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