Now, O now, I needs must part (John Dowland)
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CPDL #17944:
- Editor: David Newman (added 2008-08-21). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 125 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Edition in G minor
CPDL #17432: Lilypond Part Midis Available
- Editor: Aaron Elkiss (added 2008-07-03). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 410 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Brian Russell (added 2006-01-31). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 34 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: All selections listed alphabetically by composer’s name.
- CPDL #7788: Finale 2001
- Editor: Suzi Nassen Stefl (added 2004-08-20). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 92 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Jim Cooke (added 2004-07-02). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 184 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Ulrich Alpers (added 2003-08-18). Score information: A4 Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Marco-cipoo.net (added 2002-06-18). Score information: Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: listed alphabetically by composer
- Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2000-06-21). Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: in partbook format
- CPDL #112: Finale 1998
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (added 1999-04-06). Score information: 40 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Finale file is zipped.
General Information
Title: Now, O, now, I needs must part
Composer: John Dowland
Lyricist: John Dowland (1653-1626)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lute song
Language: English
Instruments: Lute
Published: The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597), No. 6
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Original text and translations
English text
1.
- Now, O, now, I needs must part,
- parting though I absent mourn.
- Absence can no joy impart,
- joy, once fled, cannot return.
Refrain
- Sad despair doth drive me hence,
- this despair unkindness sends.
- If that parting be offence,
- it is she which then offends!
2.
- While I live I needs must love,
- Love lives not when hope is gone:
- Now, at last, despair doth prove,
- Love divided loveth none.
3.
- Dear, when from thee I am gone,
- Gone are all my joys at once.
- I loved thee and thee alone,
- in whose love I joyed once.
4.
- And, although your sight I leave,
- sight wherein my joys do lie,
- 'Till that Death do sense bereave,
- never shall affection die.
5.
- Dear, if I do not return,
- Love and I shall die together.
- For my absence never mourn,
- whom you might have joined ever.
6.
- Part we must, though now I die,
- Die I do to part with you;
- Him despair doth cause to lie,
- who both loved and dieth true.