1. O mistress mine
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O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming
That can sing both high and low.
[Trip]1 no further, pretty sweeting;
[Journeys]2 end in lovers' meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
[In]3 delay there lies no plenty;
Then [come kiss]4 me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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1 Korngold: "O trip"
2 Korngold: "For journeyes"
3 Korngold: "And in"
4 Korngold: "come and kiss"
2. Come away, Death
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[Come away, come away, death]1,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
[O prepare it!]2
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:
[A thousand, [thousand]3 sighs to save,]4
Lay me, O where
[Sad]3 true lover never find my grave,
[To weep there!]5
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1 Fortner: "Death, come away, come away"
2 Dring: "Come prepare it"
3 omitted by Korngold
4 omitted by Argento.
5 Amram: "did share it." [mistake?]
3. When that I was and a little boy
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When that I was and a little tiny boy,
[With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came to man's estate,
[With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
For the rain it raineth every day.
[ But when I came, alas! to wive,
[With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.]2
[ But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain it raineth every day.]3
A great while ago the world [begun]4,
[With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
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1 Amram: "With a"
2 Omitted by Amram.
3 set only by Baxter.
4 Amram: "began"
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