Sung by my favorite countertenor Reginald (Rex to his friends) Mobley. You never heard such a sweet, warm, fluid male voice as his.
Above: Stephen Stubbs on lute, while Reginald Mobley supplies the sweet voice for this haunting melody by John Dowland (1563-1626) filled with erotic longing.
Come again Sweet love doth now invite Thy graces that refrain To do me due delight To see, to hear To touch, to kiss To die with thee again In sweetest sympathy Come again That I may cease to mourn Through thy unkind disdain For now left and forlorn I sit, I sigh I weep, I faint I die, in deadly pain And endless misery Gentle love Draw forth thy wounding dart: Thou canst not pierce her heart; For I that do approve By sighs and tears More hot than are Thy shafts, did tempt while she For scanty tryumphs laughs ~ Anonymous
"I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart" 