by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Love me not for comely grace
 (Sung text for setting by J. Wilbye)
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Language: English 
Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart:
  For those may fade or turn to ill,
   So thou and I shall sever:
Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
And love me still but know not why;
  So hast thou the same reason still
   To doat upon me ever!

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  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 63