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VII. Deare, if you change
John Dowland (From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute)
Deare,
if
you
change,
ile
ne
ver
chuse
a
gaine
Earth
with
her
flowers
shall
soon
er
heaven
a
dorne,
Sweet,
if
you
shrink,
you
shrink,
ile
ne
ver
thinke
Heaven
her
bright
starres,
bright
starres,
through
earths
dim
globe
of
love.
Faire,
if
you
faile,
ile
judge
all
shall
move,
Fire
heate
shall
lose,
and
frosts
of
beau
ty
vaine.
Wise,
if
too
weake,
moe
wits
ile
ne
flames
be
borne,
Ayre
made
to
shine
as
black
as
hell
ver
prove,
moe
wits
ile
ne
ver
prove.
Deare,
shall
prove,
as
black
as
hell
shall
prove,
Earth,
sweet,
faire,
wise,
Deare,
sweet,
faire,
wise,
change,
shrink
hea
ven,
fire,
ayre,
Earth,
hea
ven
fire
ayre,
the
world
(3)
nor
bee
not
weake:
and,
on
my
faith,
my
faith
trans
form'd
shall
view,
Ere
I
prove
false
to
faith,
shall
ne
ver
breake.
Deare,
breake.
or
strange
to
you.
Earth,
you.
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