Greensleeves Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A new Courtly Sonnet of the Ladie Greensleeves	A
Alas my love you do me wrong	B
To cast me off discourteously	C
And I have lov ed you so long	B
Delighting in your companie	D
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Chorus Greensleeves was all my joy	E
Greensleeves was my delight	F
Greensleeves was my heart of gold	G
And who but my Ladie Greensleeves	A
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I have been ready at your hand	H
To grant whatever you would crave	I
I have both waged life and land	H
Your love and good will for to have	J
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Chorus	A
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I bought thee kerchers to thy head	K
That were wrought fine and gallantly	C
I kept thee both boord and bed	K
Which cost my purse well favouredly	C
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Chorus	A
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I bought thee petticoats of the best	L
The cloth so fine as might be	C
I gave thee jewels for thy chest	L
And all this cost I spent on thee	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy smock of silk both fair and white	F
With gold embroidered gargeously	C
Thy petticoat of sendal right	F
And these I bought thee gladly	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy girdle of gold so red	K
With pearles bedecked sumptuously	C
The like no other lasses had	M
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy purse and eke thy gay gilt knives	A
Thy pincase gallant to the eye	N
No better wore the Burgesse wives	A
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy crimson stockings all of silk	O
With golde all wrought above the knee	C
Thy pumps as white as was the milk	O
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy gown was of the grossie green	D
Thy sleeves of satten hanging by	N
Why made thee be our harvest Queen	D
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Thy garters fringed with the golde	G
And silver aglets hanging by	N
Which made thee blithe for to beholde	G
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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My gayest gelding I thee gave	I
To ride where ever liked thee	C
No Ladie ever was so brave	I
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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My men were clothed all in green	D
And they did ever wait on thee	C
All this was gallant to be seen	D
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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They set thee up they took thee downe	D
They served thee with humilitie	G
Thy foote might not once touch the ground	G
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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For everie morning when thou rose	A
I sent thee dainties orderly	C
To cheare thy stomack from all woes	A
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Thou couldst desire no earthly thing	P
But still thou hadst it readily	C
Thy musicke still to play and sing	P
And yet thou wouldst not love me	C
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Chorus	A
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And who did pay for all this geare	Q
That thou didst spend when pleased thee	C
Even I that am rejected here	Q
And thou disdainst to love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Well I will pray to God on high	N
That thou my constancy mayst see	C
And that yet once before I die	N
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me	C
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Chorus	A
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Greensleeves now farewell adieu	G
God I pray to prosper thee	C
For I am still thy lover true	G
Come once again and love me	C
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Chorus	A

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