An interesting question and one that can be answered in a number of different ways.
Basically, your answer is "as you please". Any other answer will have problems, since in this time period repeats were basically optional. Morley's comment about ficta here is on point, where the right of the performer trumps the composer even as far as the notes. Now, if you want to try to determine the composer's intent, there basically is no way, since there are so many versions and sources. Maybe someone has the green light from the boss, maybe not. Obviously there is only one verse for the third section, but you could write another verse. What would I do? Take the repeat and then you have patch material for the recording if a dog barks on "hark" dt At 05:00 PM 4/29/2011, you wrote: >Hi, everyone! I may be taking my life in my hands (in the sense of >inviting a deluge of emails), but what the heck. What are people's >opinions regarding a repeat in performance of the third section of >Dowland's "Flow My Tears"; yes, no, and why? > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
