Go from my Window
Anonymous
This is an arrangement of an English folk song by an anonymous composer, composed according to the practice of the time as a theme and a number of variations in Divisions, specific elaborations of the theme. The piece was published in the Dowland Lute Book.
A version of the text of the song that is handed down, is:
Go from my window, love, go,
Go from my window, my dear,
The wind and the rain,
Will drive you back again,
You cannot be lodged here.
;-) So in fact this song describes a bit of a fiasco of a serenade!