Rest, sweet nymphs

Rest, sweet nymphs, let golden sleep

Charm your star-brighter eyes,

While my lute her watch doth keep

With pleasing sympathies.

Lullaby, lullaby,

Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly,

Let nothing affright ye,

In calm contentments lie.

Thus, dear damsels, I do give

Good night, and so am gone;

With your hearts' desires long live,

Still joy and never mourn.

Lullaby, lullaby,

Hath eas'd you and pleas'd you,

And sweet slumber seized you,

And now to bed I hie.