Anonymous. Willing Bondage. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Willing Bondage

Anonymous


HER 1 hair the net of golden wire,
Wherein my heart, led by my wandering eyes
So fast entangled is that in no wise
It can, nor will, again retire;
But rather will in that sweet bondage die	5
Than break one hair to gain her liberty.

Note 1. From Thomas Bateson’s Second Set of Madrigals, 1618. [back]