The firste booke of Songes or Ayres of fowre partes with Tableture for the Lute So made that all the partes together, or either of them seuerally may be song to the Lute, Orpherian or Viol de gambo. Composed by John Dowland ... Also an inuention by the sayd Author for two to playe vpon one Lute |
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XVI. Would my conceit ye first enforst my woe
Would my conceit ye first enforst my woe,
Or els mine eyes which still ye same encrease,
Might be extinct, to end my sorrowes so
Which nowe are such as nothing can release:
Whose life is death, whose sweet each change of sowre
And eke whose hell renueth euery houre.
Or els mine eyes which still ye same encrease,
Might be extinct, to end my sorrowes so
Which nowe are such as nothing can release:
Whose life is death, whose sweet each change of sowre
And eke whose hell renueth euery houre.
Each houre amidst the deepe of hell I frie,
Each houre I wast and wither where I sit,
But that sweet houre wherein I wish to die,
My hope alas may not enioy it yet,
Whose hope is such bereaued, of the blisse,
Which vnto all saue me allotted is.
Each houre I wast and wither where I sit,
But that sweet houre wherein I wish to die,
My hope alas may not enioy it yet,
Whose hope is such bereaued, of the blisse,
Which vnto all saue me allotted is.
To all saue me is free to liue or die,
To all saue me remaineth hap or hope,
But all perforce, I must abandon I,
Sith Fortune still directs my hap a slope,
Wherefore to neither hap nor hope I trust,
But to my thralles I yeeld, for so I must.
To all saue me remaineth hap or hope,
But all perforce, I must abandon I,
Sith Fortune still directs my hap a slope,
Wherefore to neither hap nor hope I trust,
But to my thralles I yeeld, for so I must.
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