A Mvsicall Dreame Or The Fovrth Booke Of Ayres, The First part is for the Lute, two Voyces, and the Viole de Gambo; The Second part is for the Lute, the Viole and foure Voices to Sing: The Third part is for one Voyce alone, or to the Lute, the Basse Viole, or to both if you please, VVhereof, two are Italian Ayres |
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XVII.
[When I sit reading all alone that secret booke]
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When I sit reading all alone that secret bookeWhere-in I sigh, to looke
How many spots there bee,
I wish I could not see,
Or from my selfe might flee.
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Mine eyes for refuge then with zeale befixe the skies,My teares doe cloude those eyes,
My sighes doe blow them drie,
And yet I liue to die,
My selfe I cannot flie,
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Heauens I implore, that knowes my fault, what shall I doe,To hell I dare not goe,
The world first made me rue,
My selfe my griefes renew,
To whome then shall I sue.
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Alasse; my soule doth faint to draw this doubtfull breath,Is there no hope in death,
O yes, death ends my woes:
Death me from me will lose,
My selfe am all my foes.
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