Disdaine that so doth fill me - Peerson, Martin

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Consort songs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments Viol consort

Pages 3

CPDL # 58091

Editor Adrian Wall

Posted 2020-04-20

License Personal

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Disdain that so doth fill me, hath surely sworn to kill mee, and I must die. Desire that still doth burn me to life again will turn me, and live must I. O kill me then disdain that I may live again. Thy looks are life unto me and yet those looks undo me: O death and life. Thy smile some rest doth show me, thy frown with warre o'erthrow me: O peace and strife. Nor life nor death is either, then give me both or neither. Life only cannot please me, death only cannot ease me: change is delight. I live, that death may kill me, I die, that life can fill me, both day and night. If once despair decay, desire will wear away.