Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite

DESCRIPTION: "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 With thee again in sweet sympathy." The singer asks her to return "that I may cease to mourn" and he may cease to weep
AUTHOR: probably John Dowland
EARLIEST DATE: 1597 (Dowland, The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres)
KEYWORDS: love courting
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RECORDINGS:
Erica Warnock, "Come Again, sweet love doth now invite" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #505, recorded 02/27/2023)
NOTES [41 words]: This is a very beautiful and haunting piece, but traditional? It seems effectively certain that the Erica Warnock version derives from a recent recording. Note that Warnock gave Derek Piotr another early "classical" piece, "Rest, Sweet Nymphs." - RBW
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