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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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To the right Noble and Vertuous Ladie, Lucie Comptesse of BEDFORD.
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II. Flow my teares fall from your springs
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III. Sorrow sorrow stay, lend true repentant teares
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IIII. Dye not beefore thy day
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V Mourne, mourne, day is with darknesse fled
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VI. Times eldest sonne, olde age the heyre of ease
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VII. Second part. Then sit thee downe, and say thy Nunc Demittis
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VIII. Third part. When others sings Venite exultemus
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XXII. [Humor say what mak'st thou heere]

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XIIII.

[Come yee heauy states of night]

Come yee heauy states of night,
Doe my fathers spirit right,
Soundings balefull let mee borrow,
Burthening my song with sorrow,
Come sorrow come hir eis that sings,
By thee are turned into springs.
Come you Virgins of the night,
That in Dirges sad delight,
Quier my Anthems, I doe borrow
Gold not pearle, but sounds of sorrow:
Come sorrow come hir eies that sings,
By thee are tourned into springs.
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