Now, o now I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn. Absence can no joy impart; Joy once fled cannot return. While I live I needs must love, Love lives not when hope is gone. Now at last despair doth prove Love divided loveth none. Sad despair doth drive me hence; This despair unkindness sends. If that parting be offence, It is she which then offends. Dear, when I from thee am gone, Gone are all my joys at once. I lov'd thee and thee alone, In whole love I joyed once.