The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics/Book 1/Poem 50
For other versions of this work, see Fancy (Shakespeare).
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MADRIGAL
Tell me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourishéd?
Reply, reply.
It is engender’d in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies:
Let us all ring fancy’s knell;
I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.
—Ding, dong, bell.
W. Shakespeare
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourishéd?
Reply, reply.
It is engender’d in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies:
Let us all ring fancy’s knell;
I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.
—Ding, dong, bell.
W. Shakespeare