Loue Once Would Daunce Within My Mistres Eye

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Title:     Loue Once Would Daunce Within My Mistres Eye
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

Loue once would daunce within my Mistres eye,
And wanting musique fitting for the place,
Swore that I should the Instrument supply,
And sodainly presents me with her face:
Straightwayes my pulse playes liuely in my vaines,
My panting breath doth keepe a meaner time,
My quau'ring artiers be the Tenours Straynes,
My trembling sinewes serue the Counterchime,
My hollow sighs the deepest base doe beare,
True diapazon in distincted sound:
My panting hart the treble makes the ayre,
And descants finely on the musiques ground;
Thus like a Lute or Violl did I lye,
Whilst the proud slaue daunc'd galliards in her eye.

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Michael Drayton's poem: Loue Once Would Daunce Within My Mistres Eye

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