Tudor and Stuart Love Songs — George Granville

ADIEU L'AMOUR.

Here end my chains, and thraldom cease, If not in joy, I'll live at least in peace;

Since for the pleasures of an hour, We must endure an age of pain;

I'll be this abject thing no more, Love, give me back my heart again.

Despair tormented first my breast, Now falsehood, a more cruel guest;

O!

for the peace of human kind, Make women longer true, or sooner kind: With justice, or with mercy reign, O Love!

or give me back my heart again.

George Granville.