Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...

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Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
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Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
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London :: Printed for H.M., and are to be sold by J. Martin ...,
1651.
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"Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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SONG. Murdring Beauty.

I'L gaze no more on her bewitching face, Since ruine harbours there in every place: For my enchanted soul alike she drowns With calmes and tempests of her smiles and frowns I'l love no more those cruell eyes of hers, Which pleas'd, or anger'd, still are Murderers: For if she dart (like lightning) through the ayr Her beames of wrath, she kils me with despair;

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If she behold nice with a pleasing eye, I surfet with excesse of joy, and dye.
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