Dear Love, Regard My Grief

DESCRIPTION: "Dear love, regard my grief, Do not my suit disdain, O yield me some relief.... Do thou my joys restore; Fair lady, pity me." He will love her as long as he lives; he cannot think of another; he has loved her seven years
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #60, "Fair Lady, Pity Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6912
NOTES [31 words]: Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd thinks the tune of this goes back to the Tudor era. It certainly sounds like the sort of stilted thing that minstrels of that era produced. - RBW
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