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The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres

of 2. 4. and 5. parts: With Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba. Composed by Iohn Dovvland ... Also an excelent lesson for the Lute and Base Viol, called Dowlands adew [by John Dowland]
Dowland, John (1563?-1626)

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XVIII.

[Faction that euer dwels]

Faction that euer dwels,
In court where wits excells,
Hath set defiance,
Fortune and loue hath sworne,
That they were neuer borne,
Of one aliance.

1

Fortune sweares, weakest harts
The bookes of Cupids arts
Turne with hir wheele,
Sences themselues shall proue
Venture hir place in loue
Aske them that feele.

2

This discord it beget
A theist that honour not
Nature thought good,
Fortune should euer dwell
In court where wits excell
Loue keepe the vvood.

3

So to the wood vvent I
With loue to liue and die
Fortune forlorne,
Experience of my youth
Made mee thinke humble truth
In desert borne.

4

My saint is deere to mee,
And lone hir selfe is shee
Ione faier and true,
Ione that doth euer moue,
Passions of loue with loue
Fortune adiew.
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