Rest, sweet nymphs

Song Rest, sweet nymphs
Artist Ian Bostridge
Album The English Songbook

Lyrics

[00:06.72] Rest, sweet nymphs, let golden sleep
[00:10.98] Charm your star-brighter eyes,
[00:17.19] While my lute her watch doth keep
[00:21.74] With pleasing sympathies.
[00:27.67] Lullaby, lullaby,
[00:32.74] Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly,
[00:38.95] Let nothing affright ye,
[00:45.17] In calm contentments lie.
[00:52.78]
[01:03.82] Thus, dear damsels, I do give
[01:08.61] Good night, and so am gone;
[01:14.34] With your hearts' desires long live,
[01:18.89] Still joy and never mourn.
[01:25.15] Lullaby, lullaby,
[01:30.75] Hath eas'd you and pleas'd you,
[01:37.29] And sweet slumber seized you,
[01:44.69] And now to bed I hie.