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] |
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XV.
[White as Lillies was hir face]
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White as Lillies was hir face,When she smiled,
She beeguiled,
Quitting faith with foule disgrace,
Vertue seruice thus neglected,
Heart with sorrowes hath infected.
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When I swore my hart hir owne,Shee disdained,
I complained,
Yet shee left mee ouerthrowen,
Careles of my bitter groning,
Ruthlesse bent to no relieuing.
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Vowes and oaths and faith assured,Constant euer,
Changing neuer,
Yet shee could not bee procured,
To beleeue my paines exceeding,
From hir scant neglect proceeding.
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Oh that Loue should haue the art,By surmises,
And disguises,
To destroy a faithfull hart,
Or that wanton looking women,
Should reward their friends as foemen.
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All in vaine is Ladies loue,Quickly choosed,
Shortly loosed,
For their pride is to remoue,
Out alas their looks first won vs,
And their pride hath straight vndone vs.
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To thy selfe the sweetest faier,Thou hast wounded,
And confounded,
Changles faith with foule dispaier,
And my seruice hath enuied,
And my succours hath denied.
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By thine error thou hast lost,Hart vnfained,
Truth vnstained,
And the swaine that loued most,
More assured in loue then many,
More dispised in loue then any,
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For my hart though set at nought,Since you will it,
Spoile and kill it,
I will neuer change my thoughts,
But grieue that beautie ete was borne.
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