Come again sweet love doth now invite (John Dowland)

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• CPDL #10735: Sibelius 3.
  

Editor: Philip Legge (added 2006-01-15).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 116 kbytes   Copyright: 2006 Philip Legge

Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book.

• CPDL #9206:     NOTEWORTHY COMPOSER
  

Editor: Brian Russell (added 2005-08-30).   Score information: Letter   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #7787: Finale-2001.
  

Editor: Suzi Nassen Stefl (added 2004-08-20).   Score information: Letter, 1 pages, 96 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #7446:   .
  

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (added 2004-07-03).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #6743:   Scorch     Sibelius 2.
  

Editor: John D. Smith (added 2004-02-20).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #5940:   Scorch     Sibelius 2.
  

Editor: Bettina Blokland (added 2003-11-06).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright:

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• CPDL #5484:       Capella 4.
  

Editor: Ulrich Alpers (added 2003-08-18).   Score information: A4, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: No. 17 from 'First Booke of Songes or Ayres'

• CPDL #3953:     .
  

Editor: Eva Toller (added 2002-08-28).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: TTB version, 3vv, split choir version arranged by Eva Toller, midi files available for each part

• CPDL #3952:     .
  

Editor: Eva Toller (added 2002-08-28).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: TTB–TTB, 6vv, split choir version arranged by Eva Toller, midi files available for each part

• CPDL #3869:       NOTEWORTHY COMPOSER.
  

Editor: Marco-cipoo.net (added 2002-07-23).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #2552:       ABC.
  

Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2001-05-04).   Score information: kbytes   Copyright: GnuGPL

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• CPDL #110: Finale-1998.
  

Editor: Rafael Ornes (added 1999-03-25).   Score information: 44 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Come again! Sweet love doth now invite
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 4vv, 3vv, 6vv  Voicing: SATB, TTB, TTB–TTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published:

Description:

Original text and translations

English text

• 1. Come again! sweet love doth now invite

Thy graces that refrain

To do me due delight,

To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,

With thee again in sweetest sympathy.

• 2. Come again! that I may cease to mourn

Through thy unkind disdain;

For now left and forlorn

I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die

In deadly pain and endless misery.

• 3. All the day the sun that lends me shine

By frowns doth cause me pine

And feeds me with delay;

Her smiles, my springs that makes my joy to grow,

Her frowns the winter of my woe.

• 4. All the night my sleeps are full of dreams,

My eyes are full of streams.

My heart takes no delight

To see the fruits and joys that some do find

And mark the stormes are me assign'd.

• 5. But alas, my faith is ever true,

Yet will she never rue

Nor yield me any grace;

Her Eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made,

Whom tears nor truth may once invade.

• 6. Gentle Love, draw forth thy wounding dart,

Thou canst not pierce her heart;

For I, that do approve

By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts

Do tempt while she for triumphs laughs.