Fine knacks for ladies (The Consort Of Musicke Antony Rooley)
John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist.
Fine Knacks for Ladies ====================
* Fine knacks for ladies, cheap choice, brave and new Good penniworthes, but money cannot woo; I keep a fair, but for the fair to view; A beggar may be liberal of love.
Tho' all my wares be trash, the heart is true, the heart is true, the heart is true.
** Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again, My trifles come, as treasures from my mind, It is a precious jewel to be plain, Sometimes in shell, the orient pearls we find.
All others take a sheaf, of me a grain, of me a grain, of me a grain.
*** Within the pack, pins, points, laces, and gloves And diverse toys, fitting a country fair But in my heart, where duty serves and loves, Turtles and twins, courts brood, a heavenly pair.
Happy the heart that thinks, of no removes, of no removes, of no removes.
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Borrowed from "An Elizabethan Song Book." John Dowland, Second Book of Songs or Ayres, 1600.