PAGE =18=. SONG.

_Sweetest love, &c._ Of the music to this and 'Send home my long

stray'd eyes' I can discover no trace. _The Baite_ was doubtless sung

to the same air as Marlowe's 'Come live with me'. See II. p. 57.

ll. 6-8. I have retained the text of _1633_, which has the support of

all the MSS. That of _1635-54_ is an attempt to accommodate the lines,

by a little padding, to the rhythm of the corresponding lines in the

other stanzas.

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