John Dowland - REST AWHILE YOU CRUEL CARES lyrics

Rest awhile, you cruel cares Be not more severe than love Beauty k**s 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 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 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