J. SAVALL · Hespérion XX · “Lachrimae Antiquae“ · Dowland ·

Flow, my tears, fall from your springs! Exiled for ever, let me mourn Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings There let me live forlorn Down vain lights, shine you no more No nights are dark enough for those That in despair their last fortunes deplore Light doth but shame disclose Never may my woes be relieved Since pity is fled And tears and sighs and groans my weary days, my weary days Of all joys have deprived From the highest spire of contentment My fortune is thrown And fear and grief and pain for my deserts, for my deserts Are my hopes, since hope is gone Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell Learn to contemn light Happy, happy they that in hell Feel not the world’s despite Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell Learn to contemn light Happy, happy they that in hell Feel not the world’s despite