John Dowland - NOW O NOW I NEEDS MUST PART lyrics

The Frog Galliard) Now, O now, I needs must part Parting though I absent mourn Absence can no joy impart: Joy once fled cannot return While I live I needs must love Love lives not when Hope is gone Now at last Despair doth prove Love divided loveth none Sad despair doth drive me hence This despair unkindness sends If that parting be offence It is she which then offends Dear, when I am from thee gone Gone are all my joys at once I loved thee and thee alone In whose love I joyed once And although your sight I leave Sight wherein my joys do lie Till that d**h do sense bereave Never shall affection die Sad despair doth drive me hence, etc Dear, if I do not return Love and I shall die together For my absence never mourn Whom you might have joyed ever: Part we must though now I die Die I do to part with you Him Despair doth cause to lie Who both liv'd and dieth true