by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
To couple is a custom
Language: English
To couple is a custom: All things thereto agree. Why should not I then love, Since love to all is free? But I'll have one that's pretty, Her cheeks of scarlet dye, For to breed my delight When that I lig her by. Tho' virtue be a dowry, Yet I'll chuse money store: If my love prove untrue, With that I can get more. The fair is oft unconstant, The black is often proud, I'll chuse a lovely brown: Come fiddler scrape thy crowd. Come fiddler scrape thy crowd, For Peggy the brown is she; She must be my bride; God guide that Peggy and I agree.
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 William Walton (1902 - 1983), "To couple is a custom", 1959 [voice and guitar], from Anon. in Love, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 107