Come again! Sweet love doth now invite
The First Booke of Songes or Ayres | |
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by John Dowland | |
Published | 1597 |
Publisher | Peter Short, London |
'"TITLE"........[2]
It appears on the following album:
Year | Album | With |
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2021 | À sa guitare (Album) | Thibaut Garcia |
Libretto
Slightly evened | |
1
Come again! sweet love doth now invite, thy graces that refrain, to do me due delight, to see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy. 2 Come again that I may cease to mourn, Through thy unkind disdain, For now left and forlorn: I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die, In deadly pain, and endless misery. 1 All the day the sun that lends me shine, By frowns do cause me pine, And feeds me with delay: Her smiles, my springs, that makes my joys to grow, Her frowns the winters of my woe. 2 All the night, my sleeps are full of dreams, My eyes are full of streames, My heart takes no delight: To see the fruits and joys that some do find, And make the storms are me assign’d, 3 Out alas, my faith is ever true, Yet will she neuer rue, Nor yield me any grace: Her eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made, Whom tears nor truth may once invade. 4 Gentle love draw forth thy wounding dart, Though canst not pierce her heart, For I that do approve: By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts: Did tempt while she for triumphs laughs. |
Original | |
1 <nwiki>*</nowiki>) "loue" → "love"; "enuite" → "invite. Often, "v" and "u" are used interchangeably. |
Manuscripts and sheet music
Dowland, John (1597). "The Firste Booke of Songes". IMSLP. Peter Short, London. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dowland, John (1597). "The Firste Booke of Songes". IMSLP. Peter Short, London. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- ↑ "First Booke of Ayres". Wikipedia. Archived from the original on October 2, 2021. Retrieved October 2, 2021.