| lyric | Rest, sweet nymphs, let golden sleep
Charm your starbrighter eyes,
Whiles my lute the watch doth keep
With pleasing sympathies.
Lulla lullabye, Lulla lullabye!
Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly,
Let nothing affright ye;
In calm contentments lie.
Dream, fair virgins, of delight
and blest Elysian groves
while the wandering shades of night
resemble your true loves.
Lulla lullabye, Lulla lullabye!
Your kisses, your blisses
send them by your wishes
although they be not nigh.
Thus, dear damsels, I do give
goodnight and so am gone.
With your hearts desires long live,
still joy and never moan.
Lulla lullabye, Lulla lullabye!
Has pleased you and eased you
and sweet slumber seized you,
and now to bed I hie. |