by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Language: English 
Stay, cruel, stay!
  Pity mine anguish!
  And, if I languish
For that which you do bear away,
  Ah, how can you be so unkind
  As not to grieve for that you leave behind?
And if you'll go, yet let your pity stay.
  But will you go and show that you neglect me?
  Yet say farewell, and seem but to respect me.

Composition:

    Set to music by John Danyel (1564 - 1626), "Stay, cruel, stay!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 61