T H E
F I R S T   B O O K E
of Songes or Ayres

R O B E R T   I O N E S

1600

10. Sweet come away my darling.

                 1 
       Sweet come away my darling,
       And sweetly let me heare thee sing,
       Come away, come away, ii. and bring
       My hart thou hast so fast in keeping.

                 2 
       Oh fie vpon this long stay,
       That thus my louing hopes delay:
       Come againe, come againe, ii. and say,
       Sweet hart ile neuer more say thee nay.

                 3 
       Deere be not such a tyrant,
       Still to reioice thee in my want:
       Come and doe, come and doe, ii. not scant
       Me of thy sight, to faire and pleasant.

                 4 
       Why hearst thou not his sighing,
       Whose voice all hoarcels with dying:
       Come and doe, come and doe, ii. something,
       That may reuiue thy true loue dying.

                 5 
       This is the pride of women,
       That they make beggers of all men:
       We must sigh, we must trie, we must die, and then
       Forsooth it may be they will hearken.