O Mistress Mine (mp3 Sample)

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3

Lyrics

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,

That can sing both high and low:

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,

Youth's a stuff will not endure.

About the Song

Feste the clown sings this song in the raucous "kitchen scene" in Twelfth Night, in which Toby Belch and Andrew Aguecheek have a late-night party that gets interrupted by the self-important steward Malvolio. But at this point, things are just getting started.

Track Info

Lyrics by William Shakespeare.

Music by Jon Watson.

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