Greensleeves    
         
 
Alas, my love, you do me wrong
to cast me off discourteously
and I have loved you so long
delighting in your company
 
Greensleeves was all my joy
greensleeves was my delight
greensleeves was my heart of gold
and who but my Lady Greensleves
 
I have been ready at your hand
to grant whatever you would crave
I have both waged life and land
your love and good will for to have
 
I bought thee kerchers to thy head
that were wrought fine and gallantly
I kept thee both at board and bed
which cost my purse well favour'dly
 
I bought thee petticoats of the best
the cloth so fine as might be
I gave thee jewels for thy chest
and all this cost I spent on thee
 
Thy smock of silk, both fair and white
with gold embroidered gorgeously
thy petticoat of sendal right thin silk
and these I bought thee gladly
 
Thy set thee up, thy took thee down
thy served thee with humility
thy foot might not once touch the ground
and yet thou wouldst not love me
 
Well I will pray to God on high
that thou my constancy mayst see
and that yet once before I die
thou wilt vouchsafe to love me
 
Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu !
God I pray to prosper thee
for I am still thy lover true
come once again and love me
 
 


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