For Sir Henry Lee

Time`s eldest son Old Age the heir of Ease
Strength`s foe Love`s woe and foster to Devotion
Bids gallant youths in martial prowess please
As for himself he hath no earthly motion
But thinks sighs tears vows prayers and sacrifices
As good as shows masks jousts or tilt devises.

Then sit thee down and say thy Nunc Dimittis
With De profundis Credo and Te Deum
Chant Miserere for what is now so fit is
As that or this Paratum est cor meum
O that thy Saint would take in worthy heart
Thou canst not please her with a better part.

When others sing Venite exultemus
Stand by and turn to Noli aemulari
For Quare fremuerunt use Oremus;
Vivat Eliza for an Ave Maria
And teach those swains that live about thy cell
To say Amen when thou dost pray so well.

The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600): ¹ 6 `Time`s eldest son` (First part),  (Dowland)
April 2004, Sweden.
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