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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.

II.

II. Flow my teares fall from your springs

III.

III. Sorrow sorrow stay, lend true repentant teares

IIII.

IIII. Dye not beefore thy day

V Mourne, mourne, day is with darknesse fled

VI.

VI. Times eldest sonne, olde age the heyre of ease

VII.

VII. Second part. Then sit thee downe, and say thy Nunc Demittis

VIII.

VIII. Third part. When others sings Venite exultemus

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XXII. [Humor say what mak'st thou heere]

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XXI. [Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring, ]

Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring,
Smoth or frowning So is hir face to mee,
Pleasd or smiling like milde May all flowring,
When skies blew silke and medowes carpets bee,
Hir speeches notes of that night bird that singeth,
Who thought all sweet yet larring notes outringeth.

Hir grace like Iune, when earth and trees bee trimde,
In best attire of compleat beauties height,
Hir loue againe like sommers daies bee dimde,
With little cloudes of doubtfull constant faith,
Hir trust hir doubt, like raine and heat in Skies,
Gently thundring, she lightning to mine eies.

Sweet sommer spring that breatheth life and growing,
In weedes as into hearbs and flowers,
And sees of seruice diuers sorts in sowing,
Some haply seeming and some being yours,
Raine on your hearbs and flowers that truely serue,
And let your weeds lack dew and duely sterue.