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Ayres and dialogues

For One, Two, and Three Voyces; To be Sung either to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol

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A Tempest.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Tempest.

Help Love, or else I sink

Help Love, or else I sink; for know, he best can help that causeth woe; help then, and with thy smoother palm, the fury of my passion calm: Succeeding tears in billows rise, as there were Seas met in my eyes; My sighes united proudly grown, as the four winds combin'd in one; Hark how they rore, my sighs and tears, sure have conspir'd to tempt my fears; See how they swell, now they are met, and ev'n a tempest do beget; it shakes my Bark, her Ribs do crak, and now my fears a


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wrack: Help Love for pity then I pray, ere my poor heart be cast-away.