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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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V.

[Me me and none but me]

Me me and none but me,
Dart home O gentle death
And quicklie,
For I draw too long this idle breath:
O howe I long till I
May fly to heauen aboue,
Vnto my faithfull
And beloued turtle doue.
Like to the siluer Swanne,
before my death I sing:
And yet aliue
my fatall knell I helpe to ring.
Still I desire from earth
and earthly ioyes to flie,
He neuer happie liu'd,
that cannot loue to die.