XVI. Would my conceit, that first enforst my woe,

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T:XVI. Would my conceit, that first enforst my woe,
T:Cantus
C: John Dowland
O: From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute
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w: Would my con- ceit, that first en- forst my woe,
w: Each houre a- midst the deepe of hell I frie,
w: To all save mee is free to live or die,
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w: Or els mine eyes which still the same in- crease,
w: Each houre I waft and wi- ther where I sit:
w: To all save mee re- main- eth hap or hope:
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w: Might be ex- tinct, to end my sor- rowes so,
w: But that sweet houre where- in I wish to die,
w: But all per- force I must a- ban- don, I,
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w: Which now are such as no- * thing _ can re- lease:
w: My hope a- las may not _ in- * joy it  yet,
w: Sith For- tune still di- rects _ my _ hap as hope,
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w: Whose life is death, whose sweet each change of sowre,
w: Whose hope is such, be- reav- ed of the blisse,
w: Where- fore to nei- ther hap nor hope I trust,
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w: And eke whose hel re- new- eth e- very houre.
w: Which un- to all save mee al- lot- ted is.
w: But to my thralles I yeeld, for so I must.

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