Love those beams that breed

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John Dowland (c.1563-1626)
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Love those beams that breed, all day long

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Love I quench with floods, floods of tears,
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Love those beams that breed, that breed all day long, breed

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Love those beams that breed, all day long

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Love those beams that breed, all day long

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breed, and feed, this burn - - - - ing:

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But a - las tears cool this fire in vain, in vain, The more I quench, the

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But a - las tears cool this fire in vain, in vain, The more
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a - las tears cool, tears cool this fire, in vain, in vain,The more I quench, the
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more I quench, the more there doth re - main.
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I quench, the more there doth re - main.

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 more I quench, the more, the more there doth re - main.

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quench, the more, the more there doth re - main.
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Love those beames that breede, all day long breed, and feed, this burning:
Love I quench with flouds,
flouds of teares, nightly teares and mourning.
But alas teares coole this fire in vaine,
The more I quench, the more there doth remaine.

Ile goe to the woods, and alone, make my moane, oh cruell:

For I am deceiv’d and bereav’d of my life, my jewell,
O but in the woods, though Love be blinde,
Hee hath his spies, my secret haunts to finde.

Love then I must yeeld to thy might, might and spight oppressed,
Since I see my wrongs, woe is me, cannot be redressed.
Come at last, be friendly Love to me,
And let me not, endure this miserie.

Source: John Dowland, A Pilgrimes Solace (London, 1612), no.4.

IV, first line (to 3.2 inclusive): incorrect F4 clef.

IV.4.3, 5.6: flat supplied by lute tablature.
III.7.2: flat in ks not corrected.