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Songs and Their Settings: Balthazar’s Song

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

SIGH no more, ladies, sigh no more,

Men were deceivers ever;

One foot in sea, and one on shore;

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny;

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into, Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,

Or dumps so dull and heavy;

The frauds of men were ever so,

Since summer first was leavy.

Then sigh not so,

But let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny;

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into, Hey nonny, nonny.

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