| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Madrigal | | Anonymous |
| | | YE 1 bubbling springs that gentle music makes | |
| To lovers’ plaints with heart-sore throbs immixed, | |
| Whenas my dear this way her pleasure takes, | |
| Tell her with tears how firm my love is fixed; | |
| And, Philomel, report my timourous fears, | 5 |
| And, Echo, sound my heigh-ho’s in her ears: | |
| But if she ask if I for love will die, | |
| Tell her, “Good faith, good faith, good faith,—not I!” | |
| | | Note 1. From Thomas Greaves’s Songs of Sundry Kinds, 1604. [back] | | |
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