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Shall I strive with words to move?

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On The Collected Works

1997 · 97 tracks

01Where sin sore wounding8:17
01I saw my Lady weep6:04
01Farewell, too fair3:58
01Disdain me still4:08
01Unquiet thoughts4:07
02Who ever thinks or hopes of love2:31
02Flow my tears4:42
02Sweet stay awhile3:45
02Time stands still5:51
02My heart and tongue were twins2:41
03Up merry mates2:55
03Behold a wonder here2:59
03To ask for all thy love3:42
03My thoughts are wing'd with hopes3:00
03Sorrow, stay3:56
04Daphne was not so chaste1:44
04If my complaints could passions move3:28
04Welcome black Night5:44
04Die not before thy day2:00
04Love, those beams that breed2:35
05Mourn, mourn, Day is with darkness fled2:00
05Cease, cease these false sports2:56
05Shall I strive with words to move?2:47
05Can she excuse my wrongs3:05
05Me, me, and none but me3:00
06Were every thought an eye1:19
06Lachrimae Pavan (Gile Farnaby)6:18
06Time's eldest son1:28
06Now, O now, I needs must part4:28
06When Phoebus first did Daphne love1:16
07Dear, if you change3:29
07Say, Love, if ever thou didst find1:57
07Stay, Time, awhile thy flying2:54
07Can Shee [Can she excuse] (Anon.; Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)1:57
07Then sit thee down1:22
08Paduana [la mia Barbara] (Paul Siefert)5:21
08Burst forth my tears3:56
08Tell me, true Love9:09
08Flow not so fast, ye fountains4:52
08When others sing Venite1:34
09Go nightly cares6:28
09Go crystal tears3:43
09Praise blindness eyes2:04
09What if I never speed?2:12
09The Frogge (John Wilbye)1:56
10Frog's Galliard (Anon.; Cromwell Virginal Book)1:57
10From silent night10:49
10O sweet woods6:13
10Think'st thou then by thy feigning1:54
10Love stood amazed11:37
11Lend your ears to my sorrow6:43
11Lasso vita mia3:44
11If floods of tears3:42
11Come away, come sweet love2:28
11Pavana and Galiarda (Thomas Morley)7:47
12Paduana lachrymae (Melchior Schildt)5:18
12In this trembling shadow cast9:28
12By a fountain where I lay2:46
12Fine knacks for ladies2:13
12Rest awhile, you cruel cares3:26
13O what hath overwrought1:36
13Now cease my wand'ring eyes2:21
13Can She Excuse (Anon.; Tisdale Virginal Book)1:52
13Sleep, wayward thoughts3:43
13If that a sinner's sighs3:16
14Thou mighty God3:50
14Farewell, unkind1:55
14Come ye heavy states of night4:45
14All ye, whom Love or Fortune hat betray'd4:28
14Pavion Solus cum sola (Anon.; Drexel MS)4:23
15White as lilies was her face4:01
15Dowland's Almayne (Anon.; Bodleian MS)1:28
15When David's life2:35
15Wilt thou unkind thus reave me2:11
15Weep you no more, sad fountains4:04
16Woeful heart2:52
16Fie on this feigning!2:23
16When the poor cripple3:44
16Would my conceit7:13
16Piper's Pavan and Galliard (Martin Peerson and John Bull)7:32
17I must complain3:29
17Come again: sweet love doth now invite4:37
17A shepherd in a shade2:50
17Pavana Lachrymae (William Byrd)5:34
18Faction that ever dwells3:07
18It was a Time when silly bees3:17
18His golden locks4:08
19Shall I sue2:58
19The lowest trees have tops2:36
19Awake, sweet love2:47
20Toss not my soul3:05
20What poor astronomers are they2:23
20Come, heavy Sleep4:31
21Away with these self-loving lads2:50
21Clear or cloudy3:28
21Come when I call1:36
22Humour say what mak'st thou here3:23