OH MISTRESS MINE



O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

O stay and here your true love's coming

That can sing both high and low.

Trip no further, pretty sweeting,

Journeys end in lovers' meeting

Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.



What is love? 'tis not hereafter

Present mirth hath present laughter,

What's to come is still unsure.

In delay there lies no plenty

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty

Youth's a stuff will not endure.



Note: Sung in Shakespeare's Twelth Night, Act II, Scene 3

Two tunes given here. OMSTRSS1 was arranged by William

Byrd for Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book, 1611. For this

tune, first line of each verse repeats. OMSTRSS2 I heard

from Alan Shulman in 1950. RG

@love @youth

filename[ OMSTRSS

play.exe OMSTRSS1

play.exe OMSTRSS2

RG

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