“Sing lullabie, as women do,
Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;
And lullabie can I sing to,
As womanly as can the best.”

—  George Gascoigne

"The Lullabie of a Lover", line 1; p. 272.
A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)

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English politician and poet 1525–1577

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