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 diesIn the cradle where it lies:Let us all ring fancy’s knell;I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.—Ding, dong, bell.W. Shakespeare