My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is
Emma Kirkby
5:42O you that see this face Say whether of the choice May have the former place Who dare judge this debate That it be void of hate? This side doth beauty take, For that doth Music speak Fit Orators to make The strongest judgments weak The bar to plead their right Is only true delight Thus doth the voice and face These gentle lawyers, wage dispute Like loving brothers cast For father's heritage That each, while each contends Itself to other lends For beauty beautifies With heavenly hue and grace The heavenly harmonies And in that faultless face The perfect beauties be A perfect harmony Music more lofty swells In phrases finely placed Beauty as far excels In action aptly graced A friend each party draw To countenance his cause