 | Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, First composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices by John Wilson |  |
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[Clora's false Love made Clora weepe]
Clora's
false Love made Clora weepe,
And by a Rivers side,
Her flocks which She was wont to keepe
Neglected thus shee cry'd.
And by a Rivers side,
Her flocks which She was wont to keepe
Neglected thus shee cry'd.
Is't not injustice O yee Gods
To kindle my desires,
And to leave His at so much odds,
As there's no mutuall fires.
To kindle my desires,
And to leave His at so much odds,
As there's no mutuall fires.
Poore victory to pierce a Heart
that was a tender one,
But Cowardize to spare your dart
from his that was a stone.
that was a tender one,
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from his that was a stone.
As shee thus mourn'd the teares that fell
Downe from her Love-sick eyes
Did in the Waters dropp and swell,
And into bubbles rise.
Downe from her Love-sick eyes
Did in the Waters dropp and swell,
And into bubbles rise.
Wherein her blubber'd face appeares,
Now out alas said shee,
How doe I melt away in teares,
For him that Loves not mee.
Now out alas said shee,
How doe I melt away in teares,
For him that Loves not mee.
Yet as I lessen Multiplie,
But in lesse forme appeare,
Thus doe I languish from mine eye,
And grow new in my teare.
But in lesse forme appeare,
Thus doe I languish from mine eye,
And grow new in my teare.
Breake not the Christall circles mee
Sweet streames by your fayre side,
My Love perhapps may walking bee,
And I may be espied.
Sweet streames by your fayre side,
My Love perhapps may walking bee,
And I may be espied.
And thus in little drawne and drest
In a sad teares attire,
May force such passions from his breast,
Shall equall my desire.
In a sad teares attire,
May force such passions from his breast,
Shall equall my desire.
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