JOHN DOWLAND, TIME STANDS STILL (The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1603, no.

2)
Soprano or Tenor Time stands still Bassus. with gaz ing on her face,

Lute

a a c c

a a c c

e f e c

c c c e

a c e a c d f e c

f e

a a c a

a c a

e f e c

Editorial transcription of tablature

Stand still

and

gaze for min

utes,

hours

and years, to

her

giue place:

e f e c

a c c

c e

e f c

a a c

d c a

a c

d e

a c b c

e f e c

a c e d c

f e

e f

a a c a

1993 Gordon J. Callon

Dowland, Time stands still, p. 2

All

oth

er

things

shall change,

but she

re

maines the same,

a a c c

c a b

a c c e

a a c

c e

e f e c

e f e c

a a c a e

c d c

a a c a

e f e c

till heau ens chang ed

haue their

course &

time hath

lost

his

name.

f e c

a c e

e c

a f a e

c d c

c a c

e f e

a d c c a

c c a

e f c

f c

e e

a a c a

1993 Gordon J. Callon

Dowland, Time stands still, p. 3

Cup

id doth hou

er

vp

and

down

blind

ed

with

a c a e

c c a

e c

a f a e

c d c

c a c

d c

f c

her

fair

eyes,

and

for tune cap

tiue

at

her

c e

e e e c

e c

c d e c

e a

e f e

d c

c a

1993 Gordon J. Callon

Dowland, Time stands still, p. 4

feet

con

temd

and

con

querd lies.

e f c

c c a

a c e

e d

e c

f c

f e

a a c c c a

c a

1993 Gordon J. Callon

2. When fortune, loue, and time attend on Her with my fortunes, loue, and time, I honour will alone, If bloudlesse enuie say, dutie hath no desert. Dutie replies that enuie knowes her selfe his faithfull heart, My setled vowes and spotlesse faith no fortune can remoue, Her Courage shall shew my inward faith, and faith shall trie my loue.