Tosse not my soule (John Dowland)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-05-06). Copyright: CPDL
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CPDL #11877:
Finale 2006
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General Information
Title: Tosse not my soule
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: Lute (optional)
Published: 1600
Description: No. XX from Second Book of Songs or Ayres (1600). Initially titled 'Finding in fields my Silvia alone'.
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Original text and translations
English text
- Tosse not my soule, O love twixt hope and feare,
- Shew mee some ground where I may firmely stand or surely fall,
- I care not which apeare, So one will close me in a certaine band.
- When once of ill the uttermost is knowen,
- The strength of sorrow quite is over throwne.
- Take mee Assurance to thy blisfull holde,
- Or thou Despaire unto thy darkest Cell,
- Each hath full rest, the on in joyes en rolde,
- Th'other, in that hee feares no more, is well:
- When once of ill the uttermost is knowen,
- The strength of sorrow quite is over throwne.