VI. Now, O now, I needs must part,

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T:VI. Now, O now, I needs must part,
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:1.~Now, O now, I needs must _ part, part- ing though I ab- sent mourn.  Ab- sence can no joy im-  *
w:While I live I needs must _ love, love lives not when hope is gone.  Now at last de- spaire doth _
w:2.~Deare, when I from thee  am _ gone, Gone are all my joyes at once. I loved thee and thee a- * 
w:And al- though your sight I _ leave, Sight where in my joyes doe lie, Till that death doth sence be- *
w:3.~Deare, If I do not re- * turne, Love and I shall die to- gether. For my ab- sence ne- ver _
w:Part we must though now I _ die, Die I do to part with you. Him des- paire doth cause to _
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w:part: joy once fled can- not re- turne.  Sad de- spair doth drive me hence, this des- paire des- paire un- kind-
w: prove, love di- vi- ded lov- eth none.
w: lone, In whose love I joy- ed once.
w: reave, Ne- ver shall af- fec- tion die.
w:  mourne, Whom you might have joy- ed  ever. 
w: lie, Who both lived and di- eth true.
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w: nes sends. * If that part- ing bee of - fence, it is shee which then of- fends.