Cease Sorrows Now - Die Verbannten Kinder Evas

Cease, sorrows, now

For you have done the deed

Lo, Care hath now

Consumed my carcase quite

No hope is left

Nor help can stand instead

For doleful death

Doth cut oft pleasure quite

Yet whilst I hear

The knelling of the bell

Before I die, I’ll sin

Would my conceit

That first enforced my woe

Or else mine eyes

Which still the same increase

Might be extinct

To end my sorrows so

Which now are such

As nothing can release

Whose life is death

Whose sweet each change of sour

And eke whose bell reneweth every hour