Now, O now, I needs must part (John Dowland)

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Title: Now o now I needs must part
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published: First Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597)

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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 live 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,

slight 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.