The Frog Galliard)
Now, O now, I needs must part,
Parting though I absent mourn
Absence can no joy impart:
Joy once fled cannot return
While I live I needs must love,
Love lives not when Hope is gone
Now at last Despair doth prove,
Love divided loveth none
Sad despair doth drive me hence,
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence,
It is she which then offends
Dear, when I am from thee gone,
Gone are all my joys at once
I loved thee and thee alone,
In whose love I joyed once
And although your sight I leave,
Sight wherein my joys do lie,
Till that death do sense bereave,
Never shall affection die
Sad despair doth drive me hence, etc
Dear, if I do not return,
Love and I shall die together
For my absence never mourn,
Whom you might have joyed ever:
Part we must though now I die,
Die I do to part with you
Him Despair doth cause to lie,
Who both liv'd and dieth true