Ye bubbling springs that gentle music makes
To lovers’ plaints with heart-sore throbs immixed,
When as my dear this way her pleasure takes,
Tell her with tears how firm my love is fixed;
And, Philomel, report my timerous fears,
And, echo, sound my heigh-ho’s in her ears:
But if she asks if I for love will die,
Tell her, Good faith, good faith, good faith, — not I.

Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 172.

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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 Greaves (fl. 1604), "Ye bubbling springs that gentle music makes", published 1604, from the collection Songs of Sundry Kinds [
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