mind so soon removed,
Before that I the leisure had
To choose you for my best beloved:
For all my love was past and done
Two days, before it was begun.
Adieu, Love! adieu, Love! untrue Love!
Untrue Love, untrue Love! adieu, Love!
Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.

From THOMAS WEELKES' _Ballets and Madrigals_, 1598.

Whilst youthful sports are lasting,
To feasting turn our fasting.
Fa la la!

With revels and with wassails
Make grief and care our vassals.
Fa la la!

For youth it well beseemeth
That pleasure he esteemeth.
Fa la la!

And sullen age is hated
That mirth would have abated.
Fa la la!

From JOHN DOWLAND's _Second Book of Songs or Airs_, 1600.

White as lilies was her face:
When she smiled
She beguiled,
Quitting faith with foul disgrace.
Virtue's service thus neglected.
Heart with sorrows hath infected.

When I swore my heart her own,
She disdained;
I complained,
Yet she left me overthrown:
Careless of my bitter grieving,
Ruthless, bent to no relieving.

Vows and oaths and faith assured,
Constant ever,
Changing never,--
Yet she could not be procured
To believe my pains exceeding
From her scant respect proceeding.

O that love should have the art,
By surmises,
And disguises,
To destroy a faithful heart;
Or that wanton-looking women
Should reward their friends as foemen.

All in vain is ladies' love--
Quickly choosed.
Shortly loosed;
For their pride is to remove.
Out, alas! their looks first won us,
And their pride hath straight undone us.

To thyself, the sweetest Fair!
Thou hast wounded,
And confounded
Changeless faith with foul despair;
And my service hast envied
And my succours hast denied.

By thine error thou hast lost
Heart unfeigned,
Truth unstained.
And the swain that loved most,
More assured in love than many,
Move despised in love than any.

For my heart, though set at nought,
Since you will it,
Spoil and kill it!
I will never change my thought:
But grieve that beauty e'er was born
Thus to answer love with scorn.

From FRAN