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.

3. All the day the sun that lends me shine
By frowns doth cause me pine
And feeds me with delay;
Her smiles my springs that makes my joy to grow
Her frowns the winter of my woe.

4. All the night my sleeps are full of dreams
My eyes are full of streams.
My heart takes no delight
To see the fruits and joys that some do find
And mark the stormes are me assign`d.

5. But alas my faith is ever true
Yet will she never rue
Nor yield me any grace;
Her Eyes of fire her heart of flint is made
Whom tears nor truth may once invade.

6. Gentle Love draw forth thy wounding dart
Thou canst not pierce her heart;
For I that do approve
By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts
Do tempt while she for triumphs laughs.

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597): ¹17 `Come again sweet love doth now invite`,  (Dowland)
1984, Dresden.
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Go crystal tears like to the morning showers
And sweetly weep into thy lady`s breast.
And as the dews revive the drooping flow`rs.
So let your drops of pity be address`d
To quicken up the thoughts of my desert
Which sleeps too sound whilst I from her depart.

Haste restless sighs and let your burning breath
Dissolve the ice of her indurate heart
Whose frozen rigour like forgetful Death
Feels never any touch of my desert
Yet sighs and tears to her I sacrifice
Both from a spotless heart and patient eyes.

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597): ¹ 9 `Go crystal tears`,  (Dowland)
Recorded: February 1984, Dresden.
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1. Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
Of my heart of my heart and so leave me?
Farewell Farewell
But yet or e`er I part O cruell
Kisse me sweet sweet my jewell.
2. Hope by disdaine growess cheerelesse
Feare doth love love doth feare beauty peerelesse.
Farewell
3. If no delayes can move thee
Life shall die death shall live still to love thee.
Farewell
4. Yet be thou mindfull ever
Heat from fire fire from heat none can sever.
Farewell
5. True love cannot be changed
Though delight from desert be estranged.
Farewell

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597): ¹15 `Wilt thou unkind thus reave me`,  (Dowland)
1984, Dresden.
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1. Come heavy sleep the image of true death;
and close up these my weary weeping eies
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vitall breath
and tears my hart with sorrows sign swoln cries
Com and possess my tired thoughts worne soule
That living dies till thou on me be stoule.

2. Come shadow of my end and shape of rest
Allied to death child to blakefact night
Come thou and charm these rebels in my breast
Whose waking fancies doe my mind affright.
O come sweet sleepe; come or I die ever
Come ere my last sleep comes or come never.

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597): ¹20 `Come, heavy sleep`,  (Dowland)
February 1984, Dresden.
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1. Awake sweet love thou art return`d
My heart which long in absence mourn`d
Lives now in perfect joy.
Let love which never absent dies
Now live for ever in her eyes
Whence came my first annoy.
Only herself hath seemed fair
She only I could love
She only drave me to despair
When she unkind did prove.
Despair did she make me wish to die;
That I my joys might end
She only which did make me fly
My state may now amend.

2. If she esteem thee now aught worth
She will not grieve thy love henceforth
Which so despair hath prov`d.
Despair hath proved now in me
That love will not unconstant be
Though long in vain I lov`d.
If she at last reward thy love
And all thy harms repair
Thy happiness will sweeter prove
Rais`d up from deep despair.
And if that now thou welcome be
When thou with her dost meet
She all this while but play`d with thee
To make thy joys more sweet.

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597): ¹19 `Awake, sweet love`,  (Dowland)
February 1984, Dresden.
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