XV. White as Lillies was hir face,

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T:XV. White as Lillies was hir face,
T:Tenor
C: John Dowland
H: From The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2. 4. and 5. parts: 
H: with Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba.
L:1/4
M:C
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w:1.~White as Lil- lies was hir _ face, 
w:2.~When I swore my hart hir _ owne,
w:3.~Vowes and oaths and faith as- * sured,
w:4.~Oh that Love should have the _ art,
w:5.~All in vaine is La- dies _ love,
w:6.~To thy selfe the sweet- est _ faier,
w:7.~By thine er- ror thou has _ lost,
w:8.~For my hart though set at _ nought,
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w:When she smil- ed, 
w:She dis- dain- ed,
w:Con- stant e- ver,
w:By sur- mi- ses,
w:Quick- ly choos- ed,
w:Thou hast wound- ed,
w:Hart un- fain- ed,
w:Since you will it,
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w:She bee- * guil- ed,
w:I com- * plain- ed,
w:Chang- * ing ne- ver,
w:And dis- * guis- es,
w:Short- ly * loos- ed,
w:And con- * found- ed,
w:Truth un- * stain- ed,
w:Spoil and * kill it,
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w:Quit- ting faith with foule dis- grace, 
w:Yet shee left mee o- ver- throwen,
w:Yet shee could not bee pro- cured,
w:To des- troy a faith- full hart,
w:For their pride is to re- move,
w:Chang- les faith with foule dis- paier,
w:And the swaine that lov- ed most,
w:I will ne- ver change my thoughts
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w:Ver- tue ser- vice thus _ ne- * * glect- ed, 
w:Care- les of my bit- * ter * * gro- ning,
w:To be- leeve my paines * ex- * * ceed- ing,
w:Or that wan- ton look- * ing * * wo- men,
w:Out a- las their looks * first * * won us,
w:And my ser- vice hath * en- * * vi- ed,
w:More as- sured in love * then * * man- y,
w:But grieve that beau-  tie *  ere * * was borne.
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w:Heart with sor- rowes with sor- rowes  hath in- fect- ed.
w:Ruth- lesse bent to, * bent to no re- lie- ving.
w:From hir scant ne- * glect, ne-  glect pro- ceed- ing.
w:Should re- ward their, re- ward their friends as foe- men.
w:And their pride hath, their pride hath straight un- done us.
w:And my suc- cours my suc- cours hath de- ni- ed.
w:More dis- pised in dis- pised in love then an- y,
w:But grieve that beau- tie, that beau- tie ere was borne.

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