If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs (the sister and the brother), Then must the love be great ‘twixt thee and me, Because thou lov’st the one, and I the other.
ATTRIBUTION:
Richard Barnfield (1574–1629), British poet. To His Friend Master R.L., in Praise of Music and Poetry (l. 1–4). . .
Elizabethan Lyrics. Norman Ault, ed. (3d ed., 1949) William Sloane Associates.
