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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II.
[Time stands still with gazing on her face]
Time stands still with gazing on her face,
Stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her giue place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
Till heauens changed haue their course & time hath lost his name.
Cupid doth houer vp and downe blinded with her faire eyes,
And fortune captiue at her feete contem'd and conquerd lies.
Stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her giue place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
Till heauens changed haue their course & time hath lost his name.
Cupid doth houer vp and downe blinded with her faire eyes,
And fortune captiue at her feete contem'd and conquerd lies.
When fortune, loue, and time attend on
Her with my fortunes, loue, and time, I honour will alone,
If bloudlesse enuie say, dutie hath no desert.
Dutie replies that enuie knowes her selfe his faithfull heart,
My setled vowes and spotlesse faith no fortune can remoue,
Courage shall shew my inward faith, and faith shall trie my loue.
Her with my fortunes, loue, and time, I honour will alone,
If bloudlesse enuie say, dutie hath no desert.
Dutie replies that enuie knowes her selfe his faithfull heart,
My setled vowes and spotlesse faith no fortune can remoue,
Courage shall shew my inward faith, and faith shall trie my loue.
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