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SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 13 by MATTHEW PRIOR

First Line: LOVE, INFORM THY FAITHFUL CREATURE
Last Line: EVER TORTURED IF WE'RE FRIENDS.
Subject(s): FIDELITY; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE; SECRETS; FAITHFULNESS; CONSTANCY;

LOVE, inform thy faithful creature
How to keep his fair one's heart;
Must it be by truth of nature,
Or by poor dissembling art!

Tell the secret, show the wonder,
How we both may gain our ends;
I am lost if we're asunder,
Ever tortured if we're friends.



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