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FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22 by THOMAS CAMPION

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First Line: BEAUTY, SINCE YOU SO MUCH DESIRE
Last Line: THERE, THERE, O THERE LIES CUPID'S FIRE.
Subject(s): AMBITION; CUPID; LOVE; EROS;

Beauty, since you so much desire
To know the place of Cupid's fire,
About you somewhere doth it rest,
Yet never harbour'd in your breast,
Nor gout-like in your heel or toe, --
What fool would seek Love's flame so low?
But a little higher, but a little higher,
There, there, O there lies Cupid's fire.
Think not, when Cupid most you scorn,
Men judge that you of ice were born;
For though you cast love at your heel,
His fury yet sometimes you feel:
And whereabouts if you would know,
I tell you still not in your toe:
But a little higher, but a little higher,
There, there, O there lies Cupid's fire.





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