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The third and last booke of songs or aires

Newly composed to sing to the Lute, Orpharion, or viols, and a dialogue for a base and meane Lute with fiue voices to sing thereto

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VIII.

[Flow not so fast yee fountaines]

Flow not so fast yee fountaines,
What needeth all this haste,
Swell not aboue your mountaines,
Nor spend your time in waste,
Gentle springs, gentle springs freshly your salt teares
Must still fall dropping
Must still fall dropping dropping
Fall dropping from their spheares.
Weepe they apace whom Reason,
Or lingring time can ease:
My sorow can no season,
Nor ought besides appease
Gentle springs, &c.
Time can abate the terrour
Of euerie common paine,
But common griefe is errour,
True griefe will still remaine.
Gentle springs, &c.