XIX. Shall I sue

X:2
T:XIX. Shall I sue
T:Alto.
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.
M:3/2
L:1/4
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K:Gdor
N:Original clef, C on second line
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w: 1.~Shall I sue shall I seeke for * grace?
w: 2.~Sil- ly wretch for- * sake these * dreames,
w: 3.~Pit- tie is but a poore de- * fence,
w: 4.~Jus- tice gives each * man his * owne
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w: Shall I pray shall I prove?
w: of a vaine de- * sire
w: for a dy- ing * hart,
w: though my love bee * just,
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w: Shall I strive to a heav- en- ly Joy,  *
w: o be- thinke what * hie re- * gard, *
w: La- dies eies re- * spect no * mone, *
w: Yet will not shee * pit- tie my griefe, *
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w: with an earth- ly * love?
w: ho- ly hopes doe re- quire.
w: in a meane de- * sert.
w: there- fore die I * must,
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w: Shall I think that a bleed- ing hart, a bleed- ing hart
w: Fa- vour is as faire as things  are, as things * are,
w: Shee * is to * wor- thie  far, to  wor- thie  far,
w: Sil- ly hart then * yeeld to  die, then  yeeld to  die,
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w: Or a wound- ed eie,
w: Trea- sure is not bought,
w: for a worth so base,
w: per- ish in dis- paire,
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w: Or a sigh can as- cend the cloudes, as- cend the cloudes
w: Fa- vour is not * wonne with words, not wonne with words,
w: Cru- ell and but just is shee, but just is shee,
w: Wit- nesse yet how * faine I die, how faine I die,
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w: to at- taine so * hie.
w: nor the wish of a thought.
w: in my just * dis- * grace.
w: When I die for the faire.

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