| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind | | Anonymous |
| | | THERE 1 is a Lady sweet and kind, | |
| Was never face so pleased my mind; | |
| I did but see her passing by, | |
| And yet I love her till I die. | |
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| Her gesture, motion, and her smiles, | 5 |
| Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles, | |
| Beguiles my heart, I know not why, | |
| And yet I love her till I die. | |
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| Cupid is winged and doth range, | |
| Her country so my love doth change: | 10 |
| But change she earth, or change she sky, | |
| Yet will I love her till I die. | |
| | | Note 1. From Thomas Ford’s Music of Sundry Kinds, 1607. Also printed in The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620. [back] | | |
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