Songs of Mourning:

John Coprario

1613

TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTVOVS
the Lady Elizabeth.

I.

So parted you as if the world for euer
         Had lost with him her light
Now could your teares hard flint to ruth excite,
                                             Yet may you neuer
         Your loues againe partake in humane sight :
   O why should loue such two kinde harts disseuer
   As nature neuer knit more faire or firme together ?

II.

So loued you as sister should a brother
         Not in a common straine,
For Princely blood doeth vulgar fire disdaine :
                                             But you each other
         On earth embarc' t in a celestiall chaine
   A lasse for loue that heau' nly borne affection
   To change should subiect be and suffer earths infection.

THO. CAMPION

Songs of Mourning:

John Coprario

1613

TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTVOVS the Lady Elizabeth.

TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTVOVS
the Lady Elizabeth.