Griefe, griefe of my best loves absenting - Jones, Robert

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Lute songs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments One to four voices with Lute

Pages 11

CPDL # 18573

Editor Andreas Stenberg

Posted 2008-12-18

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Griefe, griefe of my best loves absenting: Now, O now wilt thou assayle mee I had rather life should fayle mee then endure thy slow tormenting, life our griefes an us do sever once for ever absence griefs have no relenting. Well, be it foule absence spights me, So far of it cannot send her, As my heart should not atend her, O how this thoughts thought delights me Absence doe thy worst and spare not, Know I care not When thou wrongst me, my thoughts right me. O but such thoughts proue illusions, Shadowes orf a substance banisht, Dreames of pleasure too soone vanisht, Reasons maimed of their conclusions, Then since thoughts and all deceius me, O life leaves me, And of life fade loues confussions.