Rest Awhile You Cruel Cares Lyrics

Rest awhile, you cruel cares
Be not more severe than love.
Beauty kills and beauty spares,
And sweet smiles sad sighs remove:
Laura, fair queen of my delight,
Come grant me love in love's despite,
And if I fail ever to honour thee,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me.

If I speak, my words want weight,
Am I mute, my heart doth break,
If I sigh, she fears deceit,
Sorrow then for me must speak:
Cruel unkind, with favour view
The wound that first was made by you:
And if my torments feigned be,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me.
Never hour of pleasing rest
Shall revive my dying gost,
Till my soul hath repossess'd
The sweet hope which love hath lost:
Laura redeem the soul that dies,
By fury of thy murdering eyes:
And if it prove unkind to thee,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me

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John Dowland Lyrics

First Booke of Songes (1989)

Unquiet Thoughts Who Ever Thinks or Hopes of Love My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes If My Complaints Can She Excuse My Wrongs Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part Dear, If You Change Burst Forth My Tears Go Crystal Tears Think'st Thou Then by Thy Feigning Come Away, Come Sweet Love Rest Awhile You Cruel Cares Sleep, Wayward Thoughts All Ye, Whom Love or Fortune Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me Would My Conceit Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite His Golden Locks Awake, Sweet Love Come, Heavy Sleep Away With These Self-Loving Lads

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