Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part

Now, oh now I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn: Absence can no joy impart, joy once Had cannot return. While I live I needs must love, Love lives not when hope is gone; Now at last despair doth prove love Divine which loveth none. Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends: If that parting be offence, it is She which then offends. 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, This despair unkindness sends: If that parting be offence, it is She which then offends. Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends: If that parting be offence, it is She which then offends. Dear, if I do not return, love And I shall die together, for my Absence never mourn whom you might have joyed Ever. But we must, though now I die, Die I do to part with you: in Despair doth cause to lie who both lived and Died true. Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends: If that parting be offence, it is she Which then offends. Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends: If that parting be offence, it is She which then offends.