Dear Rudolf,
I share your interest in 17th century madrigals. (Although I'm a firm
non-smoker, one of my favourites has the line "tobacco is like
love..."). My interpretation is that this is a compressed form of
poetical expression. Decompressed, I think, it would be: […] thus did
they sing: ‘There is no life like ours, No heaven on earth [like] to
shepherds' cells, no hell [like] to princely bowers’.
That is, there is an assumed parallelism with the first phrase.
best wishes,
Peter
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