Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, First composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices by John Wilson | ||
46
[I love (alas) but cannot shew it]
I love (alas) but cannot shew it
I keep a fire that burnes within
Rake't up in Embers Ah could shee know it,
I might perhaps be Lov'd agen,
For a true Love may Justly call
For friendship Love reciprocall.
I keep a fire that burnes within
Rake't up in Embers Ah could shee know it,
I might perhaps be Lov'd agen,
For a true Love may Justly call
For friendship Love reciprocall.
47
Some Gentle Courteous winde betray mee
A Sigh, by whispering in her Eare,
Or let a piteous shower convey mee
And drop into her breast a teare,
Or two or more, the hardest flint
By often dropps receives a dint.
A Sigh, by whispering in her Eare,
Or let a piteous shower convey mee
And drop into her breast a teare,
Or two or more, the hardest flint
By often dropps receives a dint.
Shall I then vexe my heart and rend it
That is allready too too weake;
No no they say Lovers may send it
By wrighting what they cannot speake,
Goe then my Muse and let this verse
Bring back my life or else my Hearse.
That is allready too too weake;
No no they say Lovers may send it
By wrighting what they cannot speake,
Goe then my Muse and let this verse
Bring back my life or else my Hearse.
Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, First composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices by John Wilson | ||