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where fancy fond - william byrd lyrics

wher fancie fond for pleasure pleads
and reason keeps poore hope in jayle
there time it is to take my beads
and pray, that beautie may prevaile:
or else dispaire will win the field
wher reason, hope, and pleasure yeeld

my eyes presume to judge this case
whose judgement reason doth disdaine:
but beautie with her wanton face
stands to defend, the case is plaine:
and at the barre of sweet delight
she pleads that fancie must be right

but shame will not have reason yeeld
though griefe doe sweare it shall be so:
as though it were a perfect shield
to blush and feare to tell my woe:
where silence force will at the last
to wish for wit when hope is past

so farre hath fond desire out runne
the bond which reason set out first:
that where delight the fray begun
i would now say if that i durst:
that in her steed ten thousand woes
have spr*ng in field where pleasure growes
o that i might declare the rest
of all the toies which fancie turnes:
like towres of winde within my brest
where fire is hid that never burnes
then should i try one of the twaine
either to love, or to disdaine

but since conceit dares not declare
the strange conflict of hope and feares
least reason should be left so bare
that love durst whisper in mine eare
and tell mee how my fancie shall
bring reason to be beauties thrall

i must therefore with silence build
the laborinth of my delight:
till love hath try’d in open field
which of the twaine shall win the fight:
i feare mee reason must give place
if fancy fond win beauties grace

- william byrd lyrics

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