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"Come Again, sweet love doth now invite" is a song by John Dowland. The lyrics are anonymous. The song is bitter-sweet, typical of Dowland who cultivated a melancholy style.
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It was included in Dowland's First Booke of Songes or Ayres, which appeared in 1597. The piece is often performed as a lute song by soloist and lute, but, like other songs in the First Booke, it is printed in a format that can also be performed as a madrigal by a small vocal group (typically SATB).
Recent performances
The Scottish tenor Paul Agnew recorded the song with Christopher Wilson (from the 2005 CD Dowland: Flow My Teares). Sting recorded the song with lutenist Edin Karamazov for the album Songs from the Labyrinth (performed in an episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). The song has also been recorded with Celtic harper Jay Michaels and vocalist Abby Michaels, the Celtic/Folk/Renaissance duo The Harper and The Minstrel, in their 2008 album Beloved Mine. In 1999, the Canadian singer/songwriter Garnet Rogers recorded the song on his album Sparrow's Wing.
In other media
Lines 8–10 are quoted in the Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.