Bind 3: Greensleeves

1) Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
For I have loved you well and long
Delighting in your company

2) Omkvæd
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my lady greensleeves

4) I have been ready at your hand
To grant whatever you would crave
I have both wagered life and land
Your love and good-will for to have
Omkvæd
Greensleeves was all my joy

5) If you intend thus to disdain
It does the more enrapture me
And even so, I still remain
A lover in captivity
Omkvæd
Greensleeves was all my joy

7) Thou couldst desire no earthly thing
But still thou hadst it readily
Thy music still to play and sing;
And yet thou wouldst not love me
Omkvæd
Greensleeves was all my joy

8) Well, I will pray to God on high
That thou my constancy mayst see
And that yet once before I die
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me