The Lunatick Lover Lyrics

The Lunatick Lover
Grim King of the Ghosts make haste
and bring hither all your [tray]
See how the pale moon does waste
and now is in the wane
come you night hags with all your charms
and raveling witches away
and hug me close in your arms
to you my respects I’ll pay
I’ll court you and think you fair
since love does distract my brain
I’ll go and I’ll wed the nightmare
And kiss her and kiss her again
But if she proved peevish and proud
then a piece of her love letter [glow]
I’ll seek me a winding shroud
and down to the shadows below

[Allures sad] I endure
since reason departs our way
I call to those hags for a cure
as knowing not what I say
The beauty whom I adore
now slights me with scorn and disdain
I never shall see her more
how shall I bear my pain
I ramble and rage about
to find out my charming [sinked]
While she had my grief as [flout]
and smiles at my loud complaint
Distraction I see is my goal
of this I have to show
her rival has got in my room
while tormance I do endure
I dream that my charming fair
is there in my rival’s bed
Oh tresses of golden hair
are on the fair pillow spread
Then this doth my passion inflame
I start an no longer can lie
a [silvier] are thou not to blame
to ruin our love I cry
Grim Kind of the Ghosts be true
and hurry me hence away
My languishing life to you
in tribute I freely pay
To the elysian shades
I pass in hopes to be free
from care where many [a bleating] ghosts
is hovering in the air.