Love and Loyalty Come my Lucasta heer's the Grove

Early Modern Songscapes

 Ayres and Dialogues, For One, Two, and Three Voyces Henry Lawes Charles Lucas London, 1653. L638 Folger L638, copy 1 leaf H1 recto, page 25
Love and Loyalty.
Come my Lucasta heer's the Grove, where Nightingales perfume the Ayre; why dost thou start? O 'tis not Love, for perfect Lovers dare not fear. No dangers in this Arbour ly, our courage keeps all others hence, ther's none shal dare approach but I; the strongest Love is best defence.
Here we'l discourse, and think, and smile, Let guilty men seek how to scape; He cannot love that can beguile, And none but Foes commit a Rape. This Evening's worth Ten Thousand yeere, Then let's resolve since thou must go, We'l meet again to morrow here, Would Kings and Queens might do so too.