If I urge my kind desires - Rosseter, Philip

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

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 5

CPDL # 4242

Editor Eva Toller

Posted 2002-12-01

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

If I urge my kind desires, She unkind doth them reject, Women’s hearts are painted fires To deceive them that affect, I alone love’s fires include, She alone doth them delude. She hath often vow’d her love, But alas no fruit I find, That her fires are false I prove, Yet in her no fault I find, I was thus unhappy born, And ordain’d to be her scorn. Yet if human care, or pain May the heav’nly order change, She will hate her own disdain, And repent she was so strange, For a truer heart than I, Never liv’d or lov’d to die.