O stay, sweet love

Lyrics

O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting; These gentle flowers smile sweetly to invite us And chirping birds are hitherward resorting Warbling sweet notes only to delight us: Then stay, dear love, for, tho' thou run from me Run ne'er so fast, yet I will follow thee I thought, my love, that I should overtake you; Sweet heart, sit down under this shadow'd tree And I will promise never to forsake you So you will grant to me a lover's fee Whereat she smiled, and kindly to me said - I never meant to live and die a maid