56          [My lute awake perfourme the last]

My lute awake perfourme the last

  labor that thou and I shall wast

  and end that I have now begon

5                for when this song is song and past

  my lute be still for I have done

As to be herd where ere is none

  as lede to grave in marbill stone

  my song may perse her hert as sone

  should we then sigh or syng or mone

10               no no my lute for I have done

The Rokkes do not so cruelly

  repulse the waves continuelly

  as she my suyte and affection

  so that I ame past remedy

15              whereby my lute and I have done

Prowd of the spoyll that thou hast gott

  of simple hertes thorough loves shot

  by whome unkynd thou hast theim wone,

  thinck not he haith his bow forgot

20              all tho my lute and I have done

Vengeaunce shall fall on thy disdain

  that makest but game on ernest pain

  thinck not alone under the sonne

  unquyt to cause they lovers plain

25              all tho my lute and I have done

Perchaunce the lye wethered and old

  the wynter nyghts that are so cold

  plainyng in vain unto the mone

  thy wisshes then dare not be told

30              care then who lyst for I have done

And then may chaunce the to repent

  the tyme that thou hast lost and spent

  to cause thy lovers sigh and swoune

  then shalt though knowe beaultie but lent

35              and wisshe and want as I have done

Now cesse my lute this is the last

  labor that thou and I shall wast

  and ended is that we begon

  now is this song boeth song and past

40              my lute be still for I have done