| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Pari Jugo Dulcis Tractus | | Anonymous |
| | | SOUND 1 is the knot that Chastity hath tied, | |
| Sweet is the music Unity doth make, | |
| Sure is the store that Plenty doth provide. | |
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| Where Chasteness fails there Concord will decay, | 5 |
| Where Concord fleets there Plenty will decease, | |
| Where Plenty wants there Love will wear away. | |
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| I, Chastity, restrain all strange desires; | |
| I, Concord, keep the course of sound consent; | 10 |
| I, Plenty, spare and spend as cause requires. | |
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| Make much of us, all ye that married be; | |
| Speak well of us, all ye that mind to be; | |
| The time may come to want and wish all three. | 15 |
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| | | Note 1. From William Byrd’s Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs, 1588. The first two stanzas have been omitted. [back] | | |
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