JOHN DOWLAND, TIME STANDS STILL

(The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1603, no. 2)

Soprano
or
Tenor
Time stands still with gaz ing on her face,

Bassus.

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Lute c c e c c e e c e
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Editorial
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Stand still and gaze for min utes, hours and years, to her giue place:

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e a c e a e c a a e f e a
f c f d d c f c d f d c
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Dowland, Time stands still, p. 2

All oth er things shall change, but she re maines the same,

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c b c e e e
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till heau ens chang ed haue their course & time hath lost his name.

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Dowland, Time stands still, p. 3

Cup id doth hou er vp and down blind ed with

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f d d f d
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her fair eyes, and for tune cap tiue at her

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Dowland, Time stands still, p. 4

feet con tem’d and con quer’d lies.

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2. When fortune, loue, and time attend on

Her with my fortunes, loue, and time, I honour will alone,
If bloudlesse enuie say, dutie hath no desert.
Dutie replies that enuie knowes her selfe his faithfull heart,
My setled vowes and spotlesse faith no fortune can remoue,
Her Courage shall shew my inward faith, and faith shall trie my loue.