Volume 5 — A Song. Set by Mr. Henry Purcell.
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A Thousand several ways I try’d, To hide my Passion from your view; Conscious that I should be deny’d, Because I cannot Merit you: Absence, the last and worst of all, Did so encrease my wretched Pain, That I return’d, rather to fall By the swift Fate, by the swift Fate of your Disdain.