Introduction
Words: Phineas Fletcher, Poetical Miscellanies 1633.
Music: Song 46 (Gibbons) Orlando Gibbons, 1623 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good picture of Fletcher (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
She began to wet His feet with her tears.
Luke 7:38
Words: Phineas Fletcher, Poetical Miscellanies 1633.
Music: Song 46 (Gibbons) Orlando Gibbons, 1623 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good picture of Fletcher (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Drop, drop, slow tears,
And bathe those beauteous feet,
Which brought from Heav’n
The news and Prince of Peace.
Cease not, wet tears,
His mercies to entreat;
To cry for vengeance:
Sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods
Drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let His eye see
Sin, but through my tears.