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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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XX.

[Tosse not my soule, O loue twixt hope and feare]

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for Finding in fields: ye shall finde a better dittie.

Tosse not my soule, O loue twixt hope and feare,
Shew mee some ground where I may firmely stand
Or surely fall, I care not which apeare,
So one will close mee in a certaine band.

Lenuoy:

When once of ill the vttermost is knowen,
The strength of sorrow quite is ouer throwne.
Take mee Assurance to thy blisfull holde,
Or thou Despaire vnto thy darkest Cell,
Each hath full rest, the one in ioyes enrolde,
Th'other, in that hee feares no more, is well:
When once the vttermost of ill is knowne,
The strength of sorrow quite is ouerthrowne.
The end of the foure parts.
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