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Artist: Elvis Costello
Canonical path: /elvis-costello/o-mistress-mine
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O, Mistress Mine
Read O, Mistress Mine lyrics by Elvis Costello on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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O, Mistress Mine
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(Harle/Shakespeare)
O, mistress mine
Where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear
Your true love's coming
That can save both high and low
Trip no further pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers meeting
Every wise man's son doth know
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Trip no further pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers meeting
Every 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
It's a stuff will not endure
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Elvis Costello performs "O, Mistress Mine", and this lyric page sits inside the Elvis Costello catalog on LyroVerse.
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