saith my Galatea:
Love long hath been deluded,
When shall it be concluded?

The young nymphs all are wedded:
Ah, then why do I tarry?
Oh, let me die or marry.

From THOMAS CAMPION's _Fourth Book of Airs_ (circ. 1613).

To his sweet lute Apollo sang the motions of the spheres,
The wondrous orders of the stars whose course divides the years,
And all the mysteries above;
But none of this could Midas move:
Which purchased him his ass's ears.

Then Pan with his rude pipe began the country wealth t' advance,
To boast of cattle, flocks of sheep, and goats on hills that dance,
With much more of this churlish kind,
That quite transported Midas' mind,
And held him wrapt in trance.

This wrong the God of Music scorned from such a sottish judge,
And bent his angry bow at Pan, which made the piper trudge:
Then Midas' head he so did trim
That every age yet talks of him
And Ph[oe]bus' right revenged grudge.

From ROBERT DOWLAND's _Musical Banquet_, 1610. (The lines are assigned
to Robert Deveureux, Earl of Essex.)

To plead my faith, where faith hath no reward,
To move remorse where favour is not borne,
To heap complaints where she doth not regard,
Were fruitless, bootless, vain, and yield but scorn.

I loved her whom all the world admired,
I was refused of her that can love none,
And my vain hopes which far too high aspired
Is dead and buried and for ever gone.

Forget my name since you have scorned my love,
And woman-like do not too late lament:
Since for your sake I do all mischief prove,
I none accuse nor nothing do repent:
I was as fond as ever she was fair,
Yet loved I not more than I now despair.

From THOMAS WEELKES' _Ballets and Madrigals_, 1598.

To shorten winter's sadness
See where the nymphs with gladness
Fa la la!

Disguised all are coming,
Right wantonly a-mumming.
Fa la la!

Though masks encloud their beauty,
Yet give the eye her duty.
Fa la la!

When Heaven is dark it shineth
And unto love inclineth.
Fa la la!

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

Toss not my soul, O Love, 'twixt hope and fear!