Flow My Teares, John Dowland, Lacrime, in Early English

Flow my teares

THE SECOND BOOKE
of Songs or Ayres
compoƒed by JOHN DOWLAND Batcheler of Muƒick, and Luteniƒt to the King of Denmark.
London, 1600.

1Flow my teares fall from your ƒprings,

Ex-ilde for eu-er, let mee mourne,

Where nightes black bird hir ƒad in-fa-my ƒings,

There let mee liue for - lorne. v. 2

2Downe vaine lightes ƒhine you no more,

No nightes are dark enough for thoƒe

That in diƒpaire their loƒt fortuns deplore,

Light doth but ƒhame diƒcloƒe.

3Neu-er may my woes be re-lieu-ed,

Since pit-tie is fled,

And teares and ƒighes and grones, my wea-rie dayes,

My wea-rie dayes of all joyes haue de-pri-ued. v. 4

4From the higheƒt ƒpire of contentment

My fortune is throwne,

And feare and griefe and paine, for my deƒerts,

For my deƒerts are my hopes, ƒince hope is gone.

5Harke, you ƒha-dowes that in darck-neƒƒe dwell,

Learne to con-temne light,

Hap-pie, hap-pie they that in hell

Feele not the worlds de - ƒpite. v. 6

6Harke, you ƒhadowes that in darckneƒƒe dwell,

Learne to contemne light,

Happie, happie they that in hell

Feele not the worlds deƒpite.

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