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Alfonso Ferrabosco

Ayres

1609


XXVIII.

A Dialogue betweene a Shepheard and a Nimph


      Shepheard:       
                     Tell me O Loue, when shall it be
                     that thy faire eyes shall shine on me ?
                     Whom nothing now reuiueth,

      Nimph:
                     I pray thee Shepheard leaue thy feares,
                     Drowne not thy heart and eyes with teares,
                     Such sighes my sence depriueth,

      Shepheard:    
                     Alas sweet Nymph, I cannot chuse 
                     since thou estranged liues from me,

      Nimph:         
                     O doe not me for that accuse,
                     My loue, my life doth lifue in thee,

      Both:              
                     Alas, what ioy is in such loue

      Shepheard:       
                     that euer liues apart ?

      Nimph:              
                     and neuer other comforts proue,
                     but cares that kill the hart ?

      Shepheard:      
                     O, let me die,

      Nimph:               
                     And so will I,

      Both:                 
                     yet stay sweet Loue and sing this song with me,
                     time bring to passe, what loue thinks could not be.
      

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