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Thread #73011   Message #1263078
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-Sep-04 - 10:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Must I Be Bound
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Must I Be Bound
... so I had better qualify Q's quote from Belden (above), as I have a copy of Roxburghe VII to hand at the moment.

The only real similarity with Roxburghe VII, 104-5 (The Maid's Revenge upon Cupid and Venus, written by Laurence Price) is the following:

Shall I be bound, that may be free? Shall reason rule my raging mind?
Shall I love him that loves not me? No, though I wink, I am not blind.

Commonplaces, really, to be found in many songs. Bruce Olson quoted a close example from Martin Parker (1633-4) in  the thread I indicated earlier.