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VIII. Burst forth my tears
Cantus.
John Dowland (From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute)
And
shew
what
pain
im
At
beau
ties
gate
in
Yet
are
my
sighes
and
per
ious
love
pro
vokes.
Kinde
hope
of
pi
tie
knocks;
But
sutes
re
paid
with
mocks:
I
ten
der
lambes,
la
ment
loves
scant
re
liefe,
mer
cy
sleepes
while
deep
dis
daine
in
crease,
pleade,
yet
she
re
pi
neth
at
my
teene,
And
pine,
since
pen
sive
care
my
free
dome
yokes.
And
beau
tie
hope
in
her
faire
bo
some
yokes.
O
ruth
lesse
ri
gour
har
der
then
the
rocks,
O
pine,
to
see
me
pine,
O
grieve
to
heare
my
griefe,
That
both
the
she
pheard
kills,
O
pine,
to
O
grieve
to
That
both
the
see
me
pine
my
ten
der
flockes.
heare
my
griefe,
my
ten
der
flockes.
she
pheard
kills,
and
his
poore
flocks.
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