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Martin Peerson: Upon my lap my sovereign sits

from To Shorten Winter's Sadness by Passamezzo

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Upon my lap my sovereign sits and sucks upon my breast.
Meantime his love maintains my life, and gives my sense her rest.
Sing lullaby, my little boy, sing lullaby, my only joy.
When thou hast taken thy repast, repose, my babe, on me ;
So may thy mother and thy nurse thy cradle also be.
Sing lullaby, my little boy, sing lullaby, my only joy.
I grieve that duty doth not work all what my wishing would,
Because I would not be to thee but in the best I should.
Sing lullaby, my little boy, sing lullaby, my only joy.
Yet as I am, and as I may, I must and will be thine,
Though all too little for thyself, vouchsafing to be mine.
Sing lullaby, my little boy, sing lullaby, my only joy.

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from To Shorten Winter's Sadness, released November 17, 2020

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador. ... more

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