John Dowland - My thoughts are wing'd with hopes | Dowland's Foundry

My thoughts are wing'd with hopes by John Dowland (1563-1626) Book 1, No. 3 Performed in The Old Library at Magdalen College Oxford from an original print of John Dowland's Book 1 of Songs and Ayres, 1600 Dowland's Foundry: Sam Brown - Lute Gwen Martin - Soprano ‪@clemmiefranks1023‬Alto ‪@DanielThomsonTenor‬ Timothy Dickinson - Bass ‪@magdalencollegeoxford9433‬ Recording: Tom Mungall With thanks to Dr Lucy Gwynn, The President and Fellows of Magdalen College, The Communications Office of Magdalen College, The Golsoncott Foundation, Dame Emma Kirkby, Michelle Castelletti & Oxford Festival of the Arts Text: My thoughts are wing'd with hopes, my hopes with love. Mount Love unto the moon in clearest night And say, as she doth in the heavens move, In earth so wanes and waxeth my delight: And whisper this but softly in her ears, Hope oft doth hang the head, and trust shed tears. And you my thoughts that some mistrust do carry, If for mistrust my mistress do you blame, Say though you alter, yet you do not vary, As she doth change, and yet remain the same: Distrust doth enter hearts, but not infect, And love is sweetest season'd with suspect. If she, for this, with clouds do mask her eyes, And make the heavens dark with her disdain, With windy sighs, disperse them in the skies, Or with thy tears, dissolve them into rain; Thoughts, hopes, and love return to me no more Till Cynthia shine as she hath done before. #dowland #johndowland #magdalencollege #magdalencollegeoxford #magdalencollegelibrary #earlymusic #lutesong #lute #historicalperformance #musichistory #elizabethanmusic #elizabethan