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william byrd - if that a sinner's sighs lyrics

if that a sinners sighes, bee angels food
or that repentaunt teares bee angels wine
accept o lord in this most pensive moode
these hartie sighes and faithfull teares of mine:
that went with peter forth most sinfullie
but not with peter wept most bitterlie

if i had davids crowne to mee betide
or all his purple robes that hee did weare
i would lay then such honor all aside
and onely seeke a sackcloth weede to beare
his pallace would i leave that i might show
and mourne in cell for such offence, my woe

ther should these hands beat on my pensive brest
and sad, to death, for sorrow rend my haire
my voice to call on thee, should never rest
whose grace i seeke, whose judgement i doe feare:
upon the ground all groveling on my face
i would beseech thy favour and good grace

but since i have not meane to make the show
of my repentaunt minde, and yet i see
my sinne to greater heape than peters grow
wherby the daunger more it is to mee
i put my trust in his most precious bloud
whose life was paid to purchase all our good
thy mercie greater is then any sinne
thy greatnesse non can ever comprehend:
wherefore o lord, let mee thy mercie winne
whose glorious name no time can ever end:
wherefore i say all prayse belongs to thee
whom i beseech bee mercifull to mee

- william byrd lyrics

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