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XIX. Shall I sue

Found in allparts.abc from the Serpent Publications abc collection
XIX. Shall I sue - staff notation
X:4
T:XIX. Shall I sue
T:Basso.
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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%%MIDI ratio 3 1
K:Gdor bass
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g3 g ^f2 g G d c B2 
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
A A F2 (G G) d6
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,
g3 g c (f/ f/) (B B) A G F 
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,
B2 G c > A d2 G6
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,
|:b > a g2 a > g ^f g2 g d > c B2 
w:  Shall I think, Shall I think, that a bleed- ing hart
w: Fa- vour is, Fa- vour is, as faire as things are,
w: Shee is to Shee is to wor- thie far, *
w: Sil- ly hart, Sil- ly hart, then yeeld to * die,
c A B G d6
w: Or a wound- ed eie,
w: Trea- sure is not bought,
w: for a worth so * base,
w: per- ish in dis- paire,
g3 g a (f/ f/) b2 _e2 f2 
w: Or a sigh can as- cend the cloudes
w: Fa- vour is not * wonne with words,
w: Cru- ell and but * just is shee,
w: Wit- nesse yet how * faine I die,
g g c2 ( d d) G6 :|  
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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