Title: Oh Mistress Mine
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Oh Mistress Mine 
(alternate:) 
Oh Mistress Mine 
O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and here your true love's coming That can sing both high and low.
 Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journeys end in lovers' meeting Ev'ry wise man's son doth know. 
What is love? 'tis not hereafter Present mirth hath present laughter, What's to come is still unsure.
 In delay there lies no plenty Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty Youth's a stuff will not endure. 
Note: Sung in Shakespeare's Twelth Night, Act II, Scene 3 Two tunes given here. OMSTRSS1 was arranged by William Byrd for Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book, 1611. For this tune, first line of each verse repeats. OMSTRSS2 I heard from Alan Shulman in 1950. RG