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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346022" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Greensleeves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new Courtly Sonnet, of the Ladie Greensleeves.<br>Alas, my love, you do me wrong<br>To cast me off discourteously<br>And I have lov-ed you so long<br>Delighting in your companie</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)Greensleeves was all my joy<br>Greensleeves was my delight<br>Greensleeves was my heart of gold<br>And who but my Ladie Greensleeves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been ready at your hand<br>To grant whatever you would crave,<br>I have both waged life and land,<br>Your love and good-will for to have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bought thee kerchers to thy head,<br>That were wrought fine and gallantly<br>I kept thee both boord and bed<br>Which cost my purse well favouredly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bought thee petticoats of the best,<br>The cloth so fine as might be;<br>I gave thee jewels for thy chest,<br>And all this cost I spent on thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy smock of silk, both fair and white,<br>With gold embroidered gargeously;<br>Thy petticoat of sendal right,<br>And these I bought thee gladly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy girdle of gold so red,<br>With pearles bedecked sumptuously;<br>The like no other lasses had,<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy purse and eke thy gay gilt knives,<br>Thy pincase gallant to the eye;<br>No better wore the Burgesse wives<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy crimson stockings all of silk,<br>With golde all wrought above the knee,<br>Thy pumps as white as was the milk<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy gown was of the grossie green,<br>Thy sleeves of satten hanging by,<br>Why made thee be our harvest Queen.<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy garters fringed with the golde,<br>And silver aglets hanging by,<br>Which made thee blithe for to beholde<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My gayest gelding I thee gave,<br>To ride where ever liked thee,<br>No Ladie ever was so brave<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My men were clothed all in green,<br>And they did ever wait on thee;<br>All this was gallant to be seen<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They set thee up, they took thee downe,<br>They served thee with humilitie,<br>Thy foote might not once touch the ground<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For everie morning when thou rose,<br>I sent thee dainties orderly;<br>To cheare thy stomack from all woes<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou couldst desire no earthly thing,<br>But still thou hadst it readily;<br>Thy musicke still to play and sing<br>And yet thou wouldst not love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And who did pay for all this geare,<br>That thou didst spend when pleased thee,<br>Even I that am rejected here<br>And thou disdainst to love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well I will pray to God on high,<br>That thou my constancy mayst see,<br>And that yet once before I die<br>Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greensleeves, now farewell! adieu!<br>God I pray to prosper thee,<br>For I am still thy lover true,<br>Come once again and love me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Chorus)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
And I have lov-ed you so long
Delighting in your companie

(Chorus)Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves w..."></div>
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