Dowland: First Booke of Songes, 1597 - 12. Rest awhile you cruel cares - The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley

作词：Anonymous

作曲：John Dowland

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

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

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

Let this heavenly light I see

Be as dark as hell to me