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a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 204 Iesu, þi loue is suete & strong..tech me, Iesu, þi loue song, wiþ suete teres euer among.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2739 (MED) I wolde with hire glade And of hire love songes make.

1583 Answeare Def. Censure Charkes Bk. f. 100 He was then a younge youth, brought vp amongst your selues, where..such loue songes and Epigrams were highly estemed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 19 First, you haue learn'd..to rellish a Loue-song . View more context for this quotation

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 29 Solomon..wrote that..holy amorous love-song, the Canticles.

1702 W. Burnaby Modish Husband ii. 28 Well, Friend, can you teach me a pretty Love Song!

1776 R. Slinn Believer's Alphabet 5 Some persons are particularly fond of songs, and especially a love song.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 105 A love-song I had somewhere read.

1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) 154 The bird..listens to the love-song of its mate.

1923 F. J. Scott in Publ. Texas Folk-lore Soc. No. 2. 79 The youthful lover no longer takes his guitar and strums a love song beneath the window of his novia.

1937 E. St. V. Millay Conv. at Midnight 60 Proletarian poetry today..is the love-song of the claustrophobiac who has espoused the crowd.

1999 Y. M. Murray What it takes to get to Vegas viii. 125 The poor old man..was getting skunked on sneaked whiskey and singing bad love songs on a karaoke machine.