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[What Fortune so fell doeth foster my fall]
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What Fortune so fell doeth foster my fall,
what heapes of griefe doe grow:
The hope of my stay, is causer I say,
to aggrauate my woe.
Sing lullabie, lullie, lullabie,
sing lulla, lull, lullie.
Lullabie, lullie to rest thee, sweete childe,
with sleepe deere childe rest thee:
It doubles my paine, I still doe complaine,
if thou be rest from me.
Sing lullabie, lullie, lullabie,
sing lulla lull lullie.
Syth fate is so fell, we can not possesse,
the soyle which vs did reare:
Haste Atropos, haste, my twist for to waste,
to ende tormenting feare.
Sing lullabie, lullie, lullabie,
sing lulla, lull, lullie.
Thy daunger, sweete Infant, makes me to mone,
and liuing thus, to die:
If so it be prest from thy dying breast,
my vitall breath shall flie.
Sing lullabie, lullie, lullabie,
sing lulla, lull, lullie.