If she forsake me - Rosseter, Philip

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

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 4243

Editor Eva Toller

Posted 2002-12-01

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

1. If she forsake me I must die, Shall I tell her so, Alas then strait will she reply, no no no no no, If I disclose my desp'rate state She will but make sport thereat And more unrelenting grow. 2. What heart can long such pains abide, Fie upon this love, I would adventure far and wide, If it would remove, But love will still my steps pursue, I cannot his ways eschew, Thus still helpless hopes I prove. 3. I doe my love in lines commend, But alas in vain, The costly gifts that I do send, She returns again, Thus still is my despair procur'd, And her malice more assured, Then come death and end my paine.