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There's not much ROmance to that love, anyway; it's not the kind they carry on about in songbooks. But what's the good of my carrying on talking, when it's all in your inside as plain as print? I put the question to you once for all. Say no, and God pity me! Say yes, and I'll make the little ones pray for you every night on their bended knees.
To this decade belong songs by Lyly and Peele, Lodge and Greene, which have already caught the delicate daintiness and the exquisite lilt of Shakespeare's songs and a host of others found in the later songbooks qualities of which there is little more than a rare hint here and there in the earlier Miscellanies, for all the bravery of such titles as A Paradise of Dainty Devises : A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions : or A Handefull of Pleasant Delites .
"Should earth against my soul engage, And hellish darts be hurled, Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. "Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My god, my Heaven, my All."* * "On My Journey Home," hymn by Isaac Watts, found in many of the southern country songbooks of the ante bellum period.
"And pray," he inquired, "how do books sell these days?" "Why, they do and they don't, sir. Sermons are a drug and novels ain't much better, poems is pretty bobbish, but song-books is my meat. And, talking o' songbooks, here's one as is jest the thing for a convivial cock o' the game a fine, young, slap-up buck like you, my Lord.
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