Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts apt for the viols and voices. Made & newly published by Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, organist.

Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts apt for the viols and voices. Made & newly published by Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, organist.

Table of contents

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Title page

TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY, good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

THE TABLE.

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II.

III.

IIII. The first part.

V. Thesecond part.

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VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

THE TABLE.

I.

II.

III.

IIII. The first part.

V. The second part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part.

IX.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

THE TABLE.

I.

II.

III.

IIII. The first part.

V. The second part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part.

IX.

X.

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Title page

TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

THE TABLE.

I.

II.

III.

IIII. The first part.

V. The second part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part.

IX.

X.

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Title page

TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

THE TABLE.

I.

II.

III.

IIII. The first part.

V. The second part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part.

IX.

X.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

IIII. The second part.

V.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part

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X.

THE TABLE.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

IIII. The second part.

V.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part

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X.

THE TABLE.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

IIII. The second part.

V.

VI.

VII. The first part.

X.

THE TABLE.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part

IX.

X.

THE TABLE.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

IIII. The second part.

V.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part

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X.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I.

II.

III. The first part.

VI.

VII. The first part.

VIII. The second part

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X.

THE TABLE.

5. Voc. CANTO.

5. Voc. CANTO.

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CANTO. MADRIGALS OF 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY, good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

MY Lord, in the Coledge at Winchester, where I liue, I haue heard learned men say, that some Philosophers haue mistaken the soule of man for an Harmonie: Let the president of their error be a priuiledge for mine. I see not, if soules doe not partly consist of Musicke, how it should come to passe, that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly tuned to so perpetuall a Tenor of excellencies as it is, should discend to the notice of a qualitie lying single in so low a personage as my selfe. But in Musicke the Base part is no disgrace to the best eares attendauncie. I confesse my consience is vntoucht with any other arts, and I hope, my confession is vnsuspected, many of vs Musitians thinke it as much praise to be some what more then Musitians, as it is for golde to bee some what more than golde, and, if lack Cade were aliue, yet some of vs might liue: vnlesse we should think, as the Artisans in the Vniuersities in Poland, and Germany thinke, that the Latin tongue comes by reflection. I hope your Lordship will pardon this presumption of mine, the rather, because I know before Nobilitie I am to deale sincearely; and this small facultie of mine, because it is alone in mee, and without the asistance of other more confident sciences, is the more to bee fauored, and the rather to bee receiued into your honors protection, so shall I obserue you with as humble and as true an heart, as hee, whose knowledge is as large as the worlds creation, and as earnestly pray for you, to the worlds Creator.

Your honors in all humble seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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THE TABLE.

COld winters Ice is fled and gone. I

Now let vs make a merry greeting. II

Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer. III

O care thou wilt dispatch mee. The first part. IIII

Hence care, thou art too cruell. The second part. V

See where the maides are singing, VI

Why are you Ladyes staying. The first part. VII

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing. The second part. VIII

Lady the Birds right fairely, are singing euer early. IX

As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe. X

FINIS.

[Page]5. Voc. CANTO.

I.

[...] COld winters Ice is fled and gone, And sommer brages [...] and sommer brages on eu'ry tree, (repeat) [...] The Redbreast peepes amidst the throng, (repeat) Of wood borne [...] birds that wanton bee, (repeat) (repeat) Each one for- gets [...] what they haue beene, what they haue beene, (repeat) And so doth Phillis [...] sommers queene, (repeat) And so doth Phillis, and so doth Phillis sommers queene.

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II.

[...] NOw let vs make a merry greeting, & thank god Cupid for our [...] mee- ting, and thank god Cupid for our mee- ting, (repeat) [...] My hart is full of ioy and pleasure, of ioy and [...] pleasure, (repeat) Since thou art heere mine onely treasure, (repeat) [...] Now will we daunce and sport and play, and play, & sing a merry [...] roundelay. and sing a merry roundelay, roundelay, roundelay.

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III.

[...] TAke heere my hart I giue it thee for e- uer, I [...] giue it thee for e- uer, for e- uer, I giue it thee for [...] e- uer, (repeat) for e- uer. No better pledge can loue to loue [...] de-li-uer, Feare not my deare, (repeat) (repeat) it will not flye away, [...] flye a- way, For hope and loue command my hart to stay, desire will make it range, [...] desire will make it range, will make it range, Loue but my hart, my hart [...] (repeat) my hart will neuer change. (repeat)

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IIII. The first part.

[...] OCare thou wilt dis- patch mee, if Musicke [...] doe not match thee, Fa la la la la la la, So dead- ly [...] doest thou sting mee, (repeat) So deadly doest thou sting me, Mirth [...] onely help can bring mee. (repeat) Mirth onely help can bring mee, (repeat) [...] Mirth onely help can bring mee. Fa la la la la la la, Fa la [...] la la la la.

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V. Thesecond part.

[...] HEnce care, thou art too cru- ell, thou art too cruell, [...] too cruell, Come Musick sick mans Iewell, sick mans [...] Iewell, Fa la la la la la, Fa la la la la la, Fa la la la la la la la la la la la [...] la, His force had well nigh slaine mee. His force had well nigh slaine mee: But [...] thou must now sustaine mee, But thou must now sustaine mee. But thou must [...] now sustaine mee. now sustaine mee. Fa la la la la la la la la [...] la la.

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VI.

[...] SEe where the maides are sing- ing, See where the [...] maides are sing- ing, their louers garlands bringing, Yet my [...] loue, (repeat) my tormenter, tormen-ter, to grieue mee doth absent hir, (repeat) [...] Ah, ah, ah would shee but delight mee, I care not who would [...] spight mee, not who would spight mee. I care not who wold spight mee, (repeat) [...] (repeat) who would spight mee, Ah, ah, ah would she [...] but delight mee. I care not who would spight mee, not who would spight mee. [...] I care not who would spight mee. (repeat) I care not who would [...] spight mee. who world spight mee.

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VII. The first part.

[...] WHY are you La-dies stay-ing, (repeat) [...] and your Lords gone a Maying, (repeat) [...] Maving, Runne, runne a pace, runne, runne a pace, runne a pace and [...] meete them, and meete them, and meete them, And with your garlands greete them, [...] (repeat) Twere pittie they should misse you, (repeat) For [...] they will sweetly kisse you. For they will sweetly kisse you, For they will kisse, For [...] they will kisse, For they will sweetly kisse you.

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VIII. The second part.

[...] HAike, haike, I heare: And a nimble morris praun- cing, [...] and a nimble morris prauncing, The bagpipe and the [...] morris bells, that they are not farre hence, that they are not farre hence vs tells, that [...] they are not farre hence vs tells, Come, let vs all goe thether, Come let vs all goe [...] thether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to gether, and [...] daunce like friends to gether, Come let vs all goe thether, Come let vs [...] all goe thether, and daunce like friends to gether, (repeat) and [...] daunce like friends to gether.

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IX.

[...] LAdy the birds right fairely, (repeat) [...] Are singing e-uer eare- ly, eare- ly, are singing euer eare- ly, [...] (repeat) (repeat) The Larke, the Thrush, the Nightin- gale, [...] the Nightin- gale, The make sport Cuckow, the Cuckow, and the Quaile, [...] (repeat) the make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile, the make sport Cuckow, and the [...] Quaile, Cuckow and the Quaile, These sing of loue, then why sleepe yee, To loue your [...] sleepe it may not bee. (repeat)

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X.

[...] AS wanton Birds when day begins to peepe, With chirping notes sa- lute [...] the Suns arise, the Suns a- rise, salute the Suns a- rise, (repeat) the [...] Suns a- rise, So I, whom loue had lately luld a sleep, lately luld a sleep, do now with [...] Ioy, (repeat) pay tribute to hir eies, (repeat) Whose saue bright beames per- sadge [...] a happy day, (repeat) a happy day, (repeat) Long may he liue that honors [...] Phillida, Phillida, leng may he liue that honors Phillida, (repeat) (repeat) [...] Long may he liue that honors Phillida, (repeat) [...] Phillida, (repeat) that honors Philli-da, Long may hee liue that honors [...] Philli- da, that honors Phil- lida. (repeat)

The end of the 5. parts.

5. Voc. ALTO.

5. Voc. ALTO.

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ALTO. MADRIGALS OF 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

MY Lord, in the Coledge at Winchester, where I liue, I haue heard learned men say, that some Philosophers haue mistaken the soule of man for an Harmonie: Let the president of their error be a priuiledge for mine. I see not, if soules doe not partly consist of Musicke, how it should come to passe, that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly tuned to so perpetuall a Tenor of excellencies as it is, should discend to the notice of a qualitie lying single in so low a personage as my selfe. But in Musicke the Base part is no disgrace to the best eares attendauncie. I confesse my consience is vntoucht with any other arts, and I hope, my confession is vnsuspected, many of vs Musitians thinke it as much praise to be some what more then Musitians, as it is for golde to bee some what more than golde, and, if lack Cade were aliue, yet some of vs might liue: vnlesse we should think, as the Artisans in the Vniuersities in Poland, and Germany thinke, that the Latin tongue comes by reflection. I hope your Lordship will pardon this presumption of mine, the rather, because I know before Nobilitie I am to deale sincearely; and this small facultie of mine, because it is alone in mee, and without the asistance of other more confident sciences, is the more to bee fauored, and the rather to bee receiued into your honors protection, so shall I obserue you with as humble and as true an heart, as hee, whose knowledge is as large as the worlds creation, and as earnestly pray for you, to the worlds Creator.

Your honors in all humble seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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THE TABLE.

COld winters Ice is fled and gone. I

Now let vs make a merry greeting. II

Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer. III

O care thou wilt dispatch mee. The first part. IIII

Hence care, thou art too cruell. The second part. V

See where the maides are singing, VI

Why are you Ladyes staying. The first part. VII

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing. The second part. VIII

Lady the Birds right fairely, are singing euer early. IX

As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe. X

FINIS.

[Page]5. Voc. ALTO.

I.

[...] COld winters Ice is fled and gone, (repeat) and [...] sommer brages on eu'- ry tree, (repeat) (repeat) [...] the Redbreast, (repeat) peepes amidst the throng, (repeat) [...] of wood borne birds that wanton bee, wanton bee, of wood borne birds, that wan- ton [...] bee, that wanton bee, each one forgets what they haue beene, what they haue [...] beene, what they haue beene, each one forgets what they haue beene, haue beene, and [...] so doth Phillis sommers queene, (repeat) and so doth Phillis, and [...] so doth Phillis sommers queene, sommers queene.

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II.

[...] NOw let vs make a merry greeting, & thank god Cupid for our [...] meeting, and thank god Cupid for our meeting, (repeat) [...] (repeat) My hart is full of ioy and pleasure, of ioy and [...] pleasure, (repeat) (repeat) Since thou art heere mine onely treasure, (repeat) [...] Now will we daunce & sport & play, & sing a merry [...] roundelay. (repeat) a merry roundelay, roundelay, roundelay.

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III.

[...] TAke heere my hart I giue it thee for e- uer, take [...] heere my hart, (repeat) I giue it thee for e- uer, (repeat) [...] No better pledge can loue to loue deliuer, Feare not my deare, feare [...] not my deare, (repeat) (repeat) it will not flye away, flye away, for hope [...] and loue command my hart to stay, but if thou doubt, thou doubt, desire will make it range, [...] desire will make it range, loue but my hart, (repeat) (repeat) loue but my hart, [...] my hart will neuer change, my hart, my hart will neuer change.

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IIII. The first part.

[...] O Care thou wilt dispatch mee, thou wilt dispatch [...] mee, if Musicke doe not match thee, (repeat) [...] Fa la la la la la la la la la la, So deadly thou doest sting, so deadly [...] (repeat) so deadly doest thou sting mee, (repeat) sting mee, mirth [...] onely help can bring mee, (repeat) mirth onely help can bring, mirth [...] onely help can bring mee, mirth onely help can bring mee. Fa la la la la la, Fa [...] la la la la la la la la la la la la.

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V. The second part.

[...] HEnce care, thou art too cru-ell, thou art too cruell, (repeat) [...] Come Musick, come Musick sick mans Iew- ell, [...] Fa la la la la la la la, Fa la la la la, Fa la la la la la, His force had [...] well nigh slaine mee. slaine mee. (repeat) But thou must now sus- taine [...] mee, But thou must now sustaine mee, sustaine mee. But thou must [...] now sustaine mee. Fa la la la la la la la, Fa la la la la.

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VI.

[...] SEe where the maides are singing, are singing, See [...] where the maides are singing, their louers garlands brin- ging, [...] brin- ging, Yet my loue, yet my loue, my tormen- ter, to grieue mee [...] doth absent hir, doth absent hir, to grieue mee doth absent hir, Ah, ah [...] would shee but delight mee, Ah would shee but delight mee, I care not [...] who would spight mee. I care not who would spight mee. (repeat) I [...] care not who wold spight mee, (repeat) Ah, ah wold she but delight [...] mee, Ah wold she but delight mee, I care not who wold spight mee, (repeat) [...] I care not who wold spight me. (repeat) (repeat)

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VII. The first part.

[...] WHY are you La-dies staying, Why are you Ladyes [...] staying, and your Lords gone a Maying, (repeat) [...] a Maying, Runne, runne a pace, runne, runne a pace, and meete [...] them, and meete them, And with your garlands greete them, your gar- lands [...] And with your garlands, garlands greete them, Twere pittie they should misse [...] you, twere pittie they should misse you. For they will kisse, for they will sweetly [...] kisse you, For they will sweet, For they will sweetly kisse you. For they will sweetly [...] kisse, For they will sweetly, sweetly kisse you.

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VIII. The second part.

[...] HArke, harke, I heare some daun- cing, some daun- cing, [...] And a nimble morris prauncing, (repeat) [...] (repeat) The bagpipe and the morris bells, that they are not farre [...] hence vs tells, that they are not far hence vs tells, vs tells, Come, come let vs all goe' [...] thether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to gether, (repeat) [...] Come, come let vs all goe thether, and daunce like friends to [...] gether, (repeat) and daunce like friends to gether.

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IX.

[...] LAdy the Birds right fairely, (repeat) right faire- ly, [...] Are singing e-uer earely, are singing euer eare- ly, (repeat) [...] (repeat) earely, The Larke, the Thrush, the Nightingale, (repeat) [...] The make sport Cuckow, Cuckow, and the Quaile, the make sport [...] Cuckow, and the Quaile, (repeat) the make sport Cuckow, Cuckow, the [...] make sport Cuckow, & the Quaile, These sing of loue, then why sleep yee, To [...] loue your sleep it may not bee. may not bee, to loue your sleepe it may not bee, to [...] loue your sleep it may not bee.

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5. Voc. TENORE.

5. Voc. TENORE.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

MY Lord, in the Coledge at Winchester, where I liue, I haue heard learned men say, that some Philosophers haue mistaken the soule of man for an Harmonie: Let the president of their error be a priuiledge for mine. I see not, if soules doe not partly consist of Musicke, how it should come to passe, that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly taned to so perpetuall a Tenor of excellencies as it is, should discend to the notice of a qualitie lying single in so low a personage as my selfe. But in Musicke the Base part is no disgrace to the best eares attendauncie. I confesse my consience is vntoucht with any other arts, and I hope, my confession is vnsuspected, many of vs Musitians thinke it as much praise to be some what more then Musitians, as it is for golde to bee some what more than golde, and, if lack Cade were aliue, yet some of vs might liue: vnlesse we should think, as the Artisans in the Vniuersities in Poland, and Germany thinke, that the Latin tongue comes by reflection. I hope your Lordshi will pardon this presumption of mine, the rather, because I know before Nobilitie I am to deale sincearely; and this small facultie of mine, because it is alone in mee, and without the asistance of other more confident sciences, is the more to bee fauored, and the rather to bee receiued into your honors protection, so shall I obserue you with as humble and as true an heart, as hee, whose knowledge is as large as the worlds creation, and as earnestly pray for you, to the worlds Creator.

Your honors in all humble seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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THE TABLE.

COld winters Ice is fled and gone. I

Now let vs make a merry greeting. II

Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer. III

O care thou wilt dispatch mee. The first part. IIII

Hence care, thou art too cruell. The second part. V

See where the maides are singing, VI

Why are you Ladyes staying. The first part. VII

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing. The second part. VIII

Lady the Birds right fairely, are singing euer early. IX

As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe. X

FINIS.

[Page]5. Voc. TENORE.

I.

[...] COld winters Ice is fled and gone, and [...] sommer brages on eu'ry tree, (repeat) (repeat) [...] the Redbreast peepes a midst the throng, (repeat) of wood borne [...] birds that wanton be, won- ton be, that wanton bee, each one forgets what they [...] haue beene, what that haue beene, & so doth Phillis sommers queene. (repeat) [...] (repeat)

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II.

[...] NOw let vs make a merry greeting, & thank god Cupid for our [...] meeting, and thanke god Cupid for our meeting, (repeat) [...] meeting, my hart is full of ioy and pleasure, of ioy & pleasure, & pleasure, [...] of ioy and pleasure, since thou art heere mine onely treasure, (repeat) [...] now will we daunce and sport and play, and sing a merry rounde- lay. [...] and sing a merry roundelay, a merry roundelay, roundelay, roundelay.

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III.

[...] TAke heere &c. I giue it thee for e- uer, take heere my hart, [...] I giue it thee for e- uer, for e- uer, (repeat) [...] no better pledge can loue to loue deliuer, feare not my deare, feare not my [...] deare, (repeat) it will not flye away, for hope & loue command my hart to stay, [...] but if thou doubt, thou doubt, desire will make it range, (repeat) [...] loue but my hart, (repeat) loue but my hart, my hart will ne- uer change.

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IIII. The first part.

[...] O Care thou wilt dispatch mee, oh ô care thou wilt dis- patch, [...] thou wilt dispatch mee, if Musicke doe not match [...] thee, (repeat) Fa la la la la la la Fa la la la, so deadly, so [...] deadly doest thou sting mee, (repeat) doest thou sting mee, mirth [...] onely help can bring mee, mirth onely help can bring mee, (repeat) Fa [...] la la la la la Fa la la la la la la Fa la la la la la la la la.

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V. The second part.

[...] HEnce care, thou art too cru- ell, hence care thou [...] art too too cruell, thou art too cruell, Come Musick, come [...] Come Musick sick mans Iewell, Fa la la la la la, Fa la la la la la la la la la la [...] Fa la la la la la la, His force had well nigh slaine mee, slaine mee. (repeat) [...] But thou must now sustaine mee, sustaine mee. But yu must now sustaine [...] mee. Fa la la la la la la, Fa la la la.

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VI.

[...] SEe where the maides are singing, singing, their louers [...] garlands bringing, bringing, yet my loue, my tormen- ter, [...] to grieue me doth absent hir, doth ab- sent hir, to grieue me doth absent hir, ah, [...] ah wold she but delight me, ah, I care not who wold spight mee. (repeat) [...] I care not who wold spight me who wold spight me, I care not [...] who would spight me, ah, ah wold she but delight mee, ah, I care not who wold [...] spight mee, I care not who would spight mee, I care not who would spight [...] mee, who would spight mee. I care not who would spight mee.

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VII. The first part.

[...] WHY are you La-dies staying, and your Lords [...] gone a Maying, and your Lords gone a Maying, (repeat) [...] Runne, run a pace, runne, runne a pace, runne a pace, and meete [...] them, and meete them, and meete them, and with your garlands greete, and [...] with your garlands greete thē, greete thē, twere pittie they should misse you, twere pittie [...] they should misse you, for they will sweetly kisse you. for they will sweetly kisse [...] you, will kisse you, for they will sweetly sweetly kisse you.

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VIII. The second part.

[...] HArke, harke, I heare some daun- cing, some [...] daun- cing, and a nimble morris praūcing, the [...] bagpipe and the morris bells, that they are not far hence vs tells, that they are not far [...] hence vs tells, vs tells, Come let vs all goe thether, come let vs all goe thether, and [...] daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like [...] friends to gether. Come let vs all goe thether, Come let vs all goe thether and [...] daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like [...] friends to gether.

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IX.

[...] LAdy the Birds right fairely, (repeat) right [...] faire-ly, Are singing euer eare- ly, (repeat) [...] euer earely, The Larke, the Thrush, the Nightingale, the Nightin- gale, the [...] Nightingale, The make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile, the make sport Cuckow, and the [...] Quaile, the Quaile, & the Quaile, the make sport Cuckow, Cuckow, and the Quaile, These [...] sing of loue, then why sleep yee, then why sleep yee, To loue your sleep it may not [...] bee, it may not bee, to loue your sleep it may not bee.

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X.

[...] AS wanton Birds when day begins to peep, With chirping notes, with chirping [...] notes, salute the Suns a- rise, salute the Suns arise, (repeat) So I, whom loue had [...] lately luld a sleep, lately luld a sleep, do now with Ioy, (repeat) pay tribute to hir eies, [...] (repeat) to hir eies, Whose saue bright beames, persadge a happy day, a happy [...] day, (repeat) Long may he liue that honors Philli- da. that honors Phillida, (repeat) [...] that honors Phillida, Long may he liue that honors Philli da, (repeat) [...] (repeat) Long may hee liue that honors Phillida, (repeat) [...] that honors Phillida, that honors hir, Long may he liue that honors Philli- da, [...] my, Phillida, Long may hee liue that honors Philli- da.

5. Voc. QVINTO.

5. Voc. QVINTO.

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QVINTO. MADRIGALS OF 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

MY Lord in the Coledge at Winchester', where I liue, I haue heard learned men say, that some Philosophers haue mistaken the soule of man for an Harmonie: Let the president of their error be a priuiledge for mine. I see not, if soules doe not partly consist of Musicke, how it should come to passe, that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly tuned to so perpetuall a Tenor of excellencies as it is, should discend to the notice of a qualitie lying single in so low a personage as my selfe. But in Musicke the Base part is no disgrace to the best eares attendancie. I confesse my consience is vntoucht with any other arts, and I hope, my confession is vnsuspected, many of vs Musitians thinke it as much praise to be some what more then Musitians, as it is for golde to bee some what more than golde, and, if lack Cade were aliue, yet some of vs might liue: vnlesse we should think, as the Artisans in the Vniuersities in Poland, and Germany thinke, that the Latin tongue comes by reflection. I hope your Lordship will pardon this presumption of mine, the rather, because I know before Nobilitie I am to deale sincearely; and this small facultie of mine, because it is alone in mee, and without the asistance of other more confident sciences, is the more to bee fauored, and the rather to bee receiued into your honors protection, so shall I obserue you with as humble and as true an heart, as hee, whose knowledge is as large as the worlds creation, and as earnestly pray for you, to the worlds Creator.

Your honors in all humble seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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THE TABLE.

COld winters Ice is fled and gone. I

Now let vs make a merry greeting. II

Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer. III

O care thou wilt dispatch mee. The first part. IIII

Hence care, thou art too cruell. The second part. V

See where the maides are singing, VI

Why are you Ladyes staying. The first part. VII

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing. The second part. VIII

Lady the Birds right fairely, are singing euer early. IX

As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe. X

FINIS.

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I.

[...] COld winters Ice is fled and gone, and [...] sommer brages on eu'ry tree, (repeat) (repeat) [...] the Redbreast, (repeat) peepes amidst the throng, (repeat) [...] of wood borne birds that wanton be, that wanton be, (repeat) each one [...] forgets what they haue beene, what they haue beene, & so doth Phillis sommers [...] queene, sommers queene, and so doth Phillis, doth Phillis sommers queene.

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II.

[...] NOw let vs make a merry greeting, & thank god Cupid for our [...] mee- ting, (repeat) for our mee- ting, my [...] hart is full of ioy and pleasure, of ioy and pleasure, (repeat) (repeat) [...] since thou art heere mine onely trea-sure, (repeat) [...] now will we daunce and sport and play, and sing a merry roundelay. and sing a roundelay, [...] sing a merry merry roundelay, roundelay, roundelay.

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III.

[...] TAke heere my hart I giue it thee for e- uer, I [...] giue it thee for e- uer, (repeat) (repeat) [...] no better pledge can loue to loue de-li-uer, feare not my [...] deare, (repeat) (repeat) it will not flye away, flye away, for hope [...] and loue command my hart to stay, desire will make it range, will make it range, [...] desire will make it range, it range, loue but my hart, my hart, loue but my hart, (repeat) [...] my hart will neuer change, will neuer change.

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IIII. The first part.

[...] O Care thou wilt dispatch mee, thou wilt dis patch [...] mee, thou wilt dispatch mee, if Musicke doe not match thee, [...] doe not match thee, match thee, Fa la la la la la la la la la la la la la, so deadly, [...] thou doest sting, so deadly thou doest sting mee, doest thou sting mee, so deadly doest [...] thou sting mee, mirth onely help can bring mee, (repeat) can bring mee, [...] (repeat) can bring mee, Fa la la la la la la la.

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V. The second part.

[...] HEnce care, thou art too too cru-ell, thou art too cru- ell, [...] (repeat) Come Musick sick mans Iewell, (repeat) [...] Fa la la la la la, Fa la la la, Fa la la la la la, Fa la la la la la [...] la la la la, His force had well nigh slaine mee. (repeat) But [...] thou must now sustaine mee, (repeat) now sus- taine me. Fa la la [...] la la la la la, Fa la.

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VI.

[...] SEe where the maides are singing, their louers garlands [...] brin- ging, yet my loue, my tormenter, to grieue mee [...] doth absent hir, absent hir, (repeat) ah, ah would shee but de- light [...] mee, (repeat) I care not who would spight mee. (repeat) [...] who wold spight mee. I care not who would spight mee, (repeat) [...] ah, ah wold she but delight mee, (repeat) I care not who wold spight [...] mee, (repeat) who would spigh mee, I care not who would spight [...] mee I care not who would spight mee.

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VII. The first part.

[...] WHY are you Ladies stay- ing, and your Lords [...] gone a Maying, (repeat) a Maying, Run, run a [...] pace, runne, runne a pace, runne a pace, and meete them, and meete [...] them, and meete them, and with your garlands greete them, greete them, twere [...] pittie they should misse you, (repeat) for they will sweetly kisse you. [...] (repeat) for they will sweetly sweetly kisse you, kisse you.

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VIII. The second part.

[...] HArke, harke, I heare: And a nimble morris prauncing, (repeat) [...] and a nimble mor-ris prauncing, the bagpipe [...] and the morris bells, that they are not far hence vs tells, that they are not far hence, (repeat) [...] vs tells, Come let vs all goe thether, come let vs all goe [...] thether, and daunce like friends to gether, (repeat) (repeat) [...] Come let vs all goe thether, (repeat) and daunce like friends to [...] gether. (repeat) and daunce like friends to gether.

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IX.

[...] LAdy the Birds right fairely, (repeat) the birds right [...] faire-ly, Are singing euer eare- ly, (repeat) [...] (repeat) e-uer earely, The Larke, the Thrush the Nightingale, the [...] Nightin- gale, The Cuckow, and the Quaile, the make sport Cuc-kow, the make sport [...] Cuckow, and the Quaile, and the Quaile, the make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile, Cuc- kow, [...] Cuckow, and the Quaile, These sing of loue, then why sleep yee, why sleep [...] yee, To loue your sleep it may not bee. to loue your sleep it may not bee.

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X.

[...] AS wanton Birds when day begins to peepe, With chirping notes, salute the [...] Suns arise, the Suns a- rise, (repeat) (repeat) So I, whom loue had [...] lately luld a sleep, lately luld a sleep, doe now with Ioy, (repeat) pay tribute to hir eies, [...] (repeat) to hir eies, Whose saue bright beames, persadge a happy day, a happy [...] day, a happy day (repeat) (repeat) Long may he liue that honors Philli-da. (repeat) [...] (repeat) Thil- lida, Long may he liue that honors Philli- da, [...] (repeat) Phillida, Long may hee liue that honors Phillida, [...] (repeat) (repeat) liue long, Long may he liue that honors [...] Philli- da, that honors Philli- da, Long may hee liue that honors Phil-li da.

The end of the 5. parts.

5. Voc. BASSO.

5. Voc. BASSO.

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BASSO. MADRIGALS OF 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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TO THE TRVELY NOBLE VERTVOVS AND HONORABLE, MY VERY good Lord, Henry Lord Winsor, Baron of Bradenham.

MY Lord, in the Coledge at Winchester, where I liue, I haue heard learned men say, that some Philosophers haue mistaken the soule of man for an Harmonie: Let the president of their error be a priuiledge for mine. I see not, if soules doe not partly consist of Musicke, how it should come to passe, that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly tuned to so perpetuall a Tenor of excellencies as it is, should discend to the notice of a qualitie lying single in so low a personage as my selfe. But in Musicke the Base part is no disgrace to the best eares attendauncie. I confesse my consience is vntoucht with any other arts, and I hope, my confession is vnsuspected, many of vs Musitians thinke it as much praise to be some what more then Musitians, as it is for golde to bee some what more than golde, and, if lack Cade were aliue, yet some of vs might liue: vnlesse we should think, as the Artisans in the Vniuersities in Poland, and Germany thinke, that the Latin tongue comes by reflection. I hope your Lordship will pardon this presumption of mine, the rather, because I know before Nobilitie I am to deale sincearely; and this small facultie of mine, because it is alone in mee, and without the asistance of other more confident sciences, is the more to bee fauored, and the rather to bee receiued into your honors protection, so shall I obserue you with as humble and as true an heart, as hee, whose knowledge is as large as the worlds creation, and as earnestly pray for you, to the worlds Creator.

Your honors in all humble seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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THE TABLE.

COld winters Ice is fled and gone. I

Now let vs make a merry greeting. II

Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer. III

O care thou wilt dispatch mee. The first part. IIII

Hence care, thou art too cruell. The second part. V

See where the maides are singing, VI

Why are you Ladyes staying. The first part. VII

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing. The second part. VIII

Lady the Birds right fairely, are singing euer early. IX

As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe. X

FINIS.

[Page]5. Voc. BASSO.

I.

[...] COld winters Ice is fled and gone, and [...] sommer brages on eu'ry tree, (repeat) on eu'ry [...] tree, the Redbreast peepes amidst the throng, (repeat) of [...] wood borne birds that wanton bee, (repeat) each one forgets what [...] they haue beene, what that haue beene, and so doth Phillis sommers queene. [...] and so doth Phillis sommers queene.

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II.

[...] NOw let vs &c. My hart is full of ioy and pleasure, of ioy and [...] pleasure, of ioy and pleasure, since thou art heere mine [...] onely treasure, (repeat) now let vs daunce and sport and play, & sing a [...] merry roundelay. a merry roundelay, a merry roundelay, roundelay, roundelay.

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III.

[...] TAke heere my hart, I giue it thee for e- uer, I [...] giue it thee for e- uer, no better pledge can loue to loue de- li- uer, [...] can loue to loue deli-uer, feare not my deare, (repeat) (repeat) [...] it will not flye away, flie away, but if thou doubt, desire will make it range, [...] will make it range, loue but my hart, loue but my hart, my hart, my hart will [...] neuer change. will neuer change.

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IIII. The first part.

[...] O Care thou wilt dispatch mee, (repeat) [...] if Musicke doe not match thee, Fa la la la la [...] la, Fa la la la la la la, so deadly, (repeat) doest thou sting mee, mirth [...] one- ly help can bring mee, (repeat) mirth onely help can bring [...] mee, Fa la la la la la la la la la.

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V. The second part.

[...] HEnce care, thou art too cruell, (repeat) [...] Come Musick sick mans Iew- ell, sick mans iewell, Fa la la [...] la la la la la la, Fa la la la la la la la, His force had well nigh slaine [...] me, had well nigh slaine mee. But thou must now sustaine mee. Fa la la la la [...] la la la la la la.

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VI.

[...] SEe where the maides are singing, (repeat) their [...] louers garlands bringing, yet my loue, my tormenter tor- menter, [...] to grieue mee doth absent hir, (repeat) ah, ah [...] would she but delight mee, I care not who would spight mee. (repeat) [...] I care not who would spight mee, (repeat) spight mee, ah, [...] ah would she but delight mee, I care not who would spight mee. (repeat) [...] (repeat) I care not who would spight mee. [...] spight mee.

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VII. The first part.

[...] WHy are you: Runne, run a pace, runne, runne a pace, runne [...] runne a pace, runne, runne a pace and meete them, and [...] meete them, & with your garlands greete thē, your garlands greete thē, twere pittie [...] they should misse you, for they will sweetly kisse you. (repeat) for they will [...] sweetly kisse you, kisse you.

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VIII. The second part.

[...] HArke, harke, I heare some daun- cing, some daun- cing, [...] and a nimble morris prauncing, the bagpipe [...] and the morris bells, that they are not far hence vs tells, that they are not far hence, that [...] they are not far hence vs tells: Come let vs all go thether, & daunce like friends to [...] gether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to gether. Come [...] let vs all goe thether, and daunce like friends to gether, and daunce like friends to [...] gether. and daunce like friends to gether.

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IX.

[...] LAdy the Birds right fairely, (repeat) Are [...] singing euer earely, earely, (repeat) (repeat) [...] earely, The Larke, the Thrush, the Nightingale, the Nightin- gale, the [...] Nightingale, The make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile, and the Quaile, the make sport Cuc- kow, [...] and the Quaile, & the Quaile, and the Quaile, These sing of loue, then why sleep yee, [...] To loue your sleep it may not bee. to loue your sleep it may not bee, not bee.

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X.

[...] AS wanton Birds. So I, whom loue had lately luld a sleep, lately luld [...] a sleep, Doe now with Ioy, pay tribute to hir [...] eies, (repeat) Whose saue bright beames, persadge a happy day, (repeat) [...] Long may he liue that honors Phillida. (repeat) Long may hee [...] liue that honors Philli da, Phillida, (repeat) Phillida, Long may hee [...] liue that honors Phillida, Phillida, Long may hee liue that honors Philli- da.

The end of the 5. parts.

6. Voc. CANTO.

6. Voc. CANTO.

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CANTO. MADRIGALS OF 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a genarall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground, neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein, your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

[Page]6. Voc. CANTO.

I.

[...] LIke two proude armies, marching in the field, marching in the field, Ioyning a thun-dring fight, ioyning a thun- dring fight, each [...] scornes to yeeld, ioyning a thun- dring fight, thun- dring fight, a [...] thun- dring fight, a thun- dring fight, each scornes to [...] yeeld, to yeeld, So in my heart, my heart, your beautie and my reason, the other [...] sayes its treason, the other sayes its treason, treason, But oh your beautie shineth [...] as the Sunne, And dazled reason yeeldes as quite vndone▪ and dazled reason [...] yeelds, as quite vndone, as quite vndone, as quite vndone, and reason yeeldes, as [...] quite vn- done.

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II.

[...] WHen Thoralis delights to walke, the Fairis doe attend hir, (repeat) [...] to walke, the Fairis doe attend hir (repeat) They sweetly sing and [...] talke, they sweetly sing & sweetly talke, (repeat) and sweetly doe com- mend [...] hir, (repeat) doe commend hir, The Satires leape & daunce the round, [...] and daunce the round, (repeat) And make their Conges to the ground, And [...] e-uer more their song it is, Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis faire Thoralis, (repeat) [...] faire Thoralis, (repeat) Long maist thou liue, (repeat) [...] faire Thora- lis, long maist thou liue, long maist thou liue faire Thoralis, faire [...] Thoralis, (repeat) (repeat) (repeat) faire Thoralis.

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue the Gods, their comfort [...] sent from heauen, (repeat) [...] sent from heauen, To charme my sences, [...] with heauens harmony, (repeat) harmony, Care they for mee, (repeat) of all [...] my ioyes bereauen, Send they heauens quire, to make mee melo-dy, (repeat) [...] melo- dy, Send they heauens quire, (repeat) heauens quire, to make mee [...] melody, (repeat) (repeat) melo- dy, Blessing, blessing me, with Musickes [...] fe-li-ci-tie, If it bee so, great may your god-heads be, (repeat) and greater [...] still to ease my mise- ry, to ease my mise- ry, to ease my mise- rie.

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IIII. The second part.

[...] MEe thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings, [...] Arions harpe, distilling silu'ring soūd, distilling silu'ring [...] sound, Or- pheous meane Lute, with all in order brings, with all in order brings, [...] And with soule pleasing Musick doth a bound, doth a bound, abound, [...] doth a bound, Whilst that olde Phaemius, (repeat) softly plaies the ground, [...] (repeat) softly plaies the ground, O sweet consort, great may your [...] comfort bee, and greater still, to ease my miserie. my mi-se- rie. my [...] mi-se-ry.

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V.

[...] THree times a day my praier is, To gaze my fill on Thoralis, on [...] Thoralis, And three times thrise I pray, (repeat) I [...] day-ly pray, I dayly pray, Not to offend that sacred May, that sacred May, That [...] I may please, And she loue me, But all the yeere, (repeat) my sute must be, but all [...] the yeere, (repeat) My sute must bee, that I may please, and shee loue mee.

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie gainst loues [...] brightest queene, loues brightest queene, Mars in a fu- rie [...] gainst loues brightest queene, Put on his healme, and toke him to his [...] launce, And marching to the mount, (repeat) this wariour was seene, this [...] wariour was seene, And there his ensignes did the god aduance, dyd the god ad- uance, [...] ad- uance, And by heauens greatest gates, hee stoutly swore, hee [...] stoutly swore, hee stoutly swore, Venus should dye, should dye, for shee had [...] wrong'd him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule, the period of Cosmographie (repeat) [...] Thule, the period of Cosmographie, (repeat) of Cosmographie, Doth [...] vaunt of Hecla, (repeat) Whose sulphuri- ous fire, [...] whose sulphuri- ous fire, Doth melt the frozen Clime, [...] and thaw the Skie, (repeat) (repeat) the Skie, Tri- nacrian Aetnas flames as- cend, [...] ascend not hier, (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme won- drous, [...] yet more wondrous I, more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, [...] With loue doth fry. doth fry, With loue, with loue doth fry, doth fry.

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VIII. The second part

[...] THe Andelusian Merchant that re- turnes, that re- turnes, [...] Laden with Cutchinele and China dishes, and China dishes, (repeat) [...] and China dishes, (repeat) Reports in Spaine how strangely Fogo [...] burnes, how strangely Fogo burnes, (repeat) how strange, how strangely [...] Fogo burnes, A midst an Ocean full of flying fishes, flying fishes, full of flying fishes, [...] (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous [...] I, (repeat) Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue doth frye. [...] Whose hart with feare doth freeze, with loue doth frye.

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IX.

[...] A Sparow Hauke proude did hold in wicked Iayle, in [...] wicked Iayle, A Sparow hauke proud did hold in wicked [...] Iayle, did hold in wicked Iayle, Musickes sweet Chorister, The Nightingale, [...] Musicks sweet, sweet Chorister, the Nightingale, To whom with sighes she said, [...] oh set mee free, (repeat) and in my song, my song (repeat) (repeat) Ile [...] praise, ile praise no bird but thee: The Hauke re- plide, (repeat) I [...] will not loose my dyet, the Hauke replide, I will not loose my dyet, To let a thousand [...] such enioy, to let a thousand such enioy, to let a thousand such, to let a thousand [...] such enioy their quiet.

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X.

[...] NOELL, adew thou Courts delight, adew, a [...] dew thou Courts delight, thou Courts delight, adew, a- dew [...] thou Courts delight, de- light, adew, adew thou Courts delight, delight, Vpon [...] whose locks, the graces sweetly plaide, sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly, sweetly [...] plaide, sweetly plaide, the graces plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, Now thou art [...] dead, now thou art dead, now thou art dead, art dead, our pleasure dies out [...] right, out right, For who can Ioy, when thou in dust art layde, art [...] laide, when thou in dust art laide, Bedew my notes, my notes, his death-bed [...] with your teares, with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, his death-bed with [Page] [...] your teares, Time helps some griefe, time helps some griefe, time helps some [...] griefe, No time your griefes out weares, no time your griefes out weares, no [...] time your griefes out weares. no time your griefes out weares, (repeat) [...] your griefes out weares, no time your griefes out weares.

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THE TABLE.

LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field. I

When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires doe attend hir. II

What haue the Gods, their consort sent from heauen. The first part. III

Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings. The second part. IIII

Three times a day my prayer is, to gaze my fill on Thoralis. V

Mars in a furie, gainst loues brightest Queene. VI

Thule the period of Cosmographie. The first part. VII

The Andelusian Merchant, that returnes. The second part. VIII

A Sparow-hauck proud, did hold in wicked Iayle. IX

NOELL, adew thou Courts delight. X

FINIS.

6. Voc. TENORE.

6. Voc. TENORE.

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TENORE. MADRIGALS OF 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a generall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground, neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein, your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

[Page]6. Voc. TENORE.

I.

[...] LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field, in the field, marching [...] in the field, in the field, Ioyning a thundring fight, ioyning a thun- dring [...] fight, Each scorns to yeeld, each scornes to yeeld, (repeat) Ioyning a thundring [...] fight, thundring fight, ioyning a thun- dring fight, Each scorns to yeeld, [...] So in my hart, your beauty and my reason, The one claimes the crowne, the other [...] saies tis treason, But oh your beautie shineth as the Sunne, (repeat) the [...] Sun, And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vndone. (repeat) as quite vn- [...] done. as quite vn- done, as quite vn- done.

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II.

[...] WHen Tho: The Faires do attend hir, attend hir, the Faires do attend hir, (repeat) [...] They sweetly sing & sweetly talke, & sweetly talke, and sweetly [...] sweetly doe commend hir, & sweetly, sweetly doe com-mend hir, (repeat) [...] The Satires leape, (repeat) (repeat) and daūce the roūd, (repeat) [...] (repeat) And make their conges to the groūd, And euer more their [...] song it is, it is, Long maist yu liue faire Thoralis. faire Thoralis. Long maist thou [...] liue faire Thoralis. (repeat) (repeat) Long maist thou [...] liue faire Thoralis. faire Thoralis. (repeat) faire Thoralis, (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thora- lis,

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue the Gods, their cōsort sent from [...] heauen, (repeat) To charme my [...] sences, with heau'ns harmony, heau'ns har- monie [...] harmonie, Care they for mee, of all my ioyes bereauen, bereauen, Send they [...] heauens quire, to make me me-lo- dy, to make me melo- dy, Send they heauens [...] quire, to make mee melody, (repeat) (repeat) Blessing mee, with [...] Mu-sicke, Blessing mee, with Musicks fe-li-ci-tie, If it bee so, Great may your [...] god-heads bee, And greater, and greater still to ease my mi-se-ry. to ease my mise- ry, [...] my miserie.

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IIII. The second part.

[...] MEe thinks I heare, Amphions warbling strings, mee [...] thinks I heare, Amphions warbling strings, Arions harpe, dis- tilling [...] silu'ring sound, distilling sound, distilling silu'ring sound, Orpheous meane Lute, [...] with all in order brings, in order brings, And with soule pleasing Musick doth a [...] bound, which doth a bound, doth a bound, Whilst that old Phaemius, (repeat) [...] softly plaies the ground, Whilst that olde Phaemius softlie plaies the [...] ground, O sweet consort, sweet consort, ô sweet consort, great may your com- fort [...] bee, and greater still, to ease my mi-se-rie, to ease my miserie, to ease my miserie.

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V.

[...] THree times a day my praier is, Togaze my fill on [...] Thoralis, (repeat) And three times thrise I [...] pray, (repeat) And three times thrise I dayly pray, I dayly pray, Not to offend [...] that sacred May, that sacred May, But all the yeere, (repeat) My sute must be, That [...] I may please, And she loue me, That I may please, (repeat) And shee loue mee, [...] But all the yeere, (repeat) But all the yeere, My sute must be, But all the [...] yeere, My sute must bee, must bee, That I may please, and shee loue mee.

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie [...] gainst loues brightest queene, Put on his healme, and toke him [...] to his launce, And marching to the mount, this wariour was seene, this wariour was [...] seene, (repeat) And there his ensignes did the god aduance, the god ad- uance, [...] And by heauens greatest gates, (repeat) hee stoutly swore, (repeat) Venus [...] should dye, for shee had wrong'd him sore, Venus should die, for shee had wrong'd him [...] sore, for she had wrong'd him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule: The period of Cosmographie, (repeat) Cosmogra- phie, [...] the period of Cosmographie, of Cos-mographie, the period of Cosmographie, [...] of Cosmographie, Doth vaunt of Hecla, (repeat) of Hecla, Whose sul- phuri- ous [...] fire, whose sulphurious fire, Doth melt the frozen [...] Clime, and thaw the Skie, and thaw the Skie, the Skie, Tri- nacri-an Aetnaes flames [...] ascend, ascend not higher, ascend not higher, (repeat) These things seeme [...] wondrous, yet more wondrous I, yet more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth [...] freeze, With loue, with loue doth fry. Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue doth [...] fry. with loue doth fry.

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VIII. The second part

[...] THe Andelusian Merchant that re- turnes, that returnes, [...] Laden with Cutchinele & China dishes, (repeat) [...] Laden with Cutchinele & China dishes, (repeat) Reports in [...] Spaine, how strangely Fogo burnes, (repeat) how strangely Fogo burnes, (repeat) [...] (repeat) A midst an Ocean full of fly-ing fishes, full of [...] flying fishes, of flying fishes, These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous I, [...] yet more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue, with loue doth [...] frye. Whose hart with feare doth freeze, with loue, with loue doth frye.

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IX.

[...] A Sparow Hauke proud did hold in wicked Iayle, wicked [...] Iayle, A Sparow hauke proud dyd hold in wicked Iayle, in [...] wicked Iayle, Musicks sweet Chorister, the Nightingale, the Nightingale, Musicks [...] sweet Chorister, the Nightingale, To whom with sighes shee saide, to whom with [...] sighes she said, O set mee free, ô set mee free, and in my song, and in my song, [...] & in my song, ile praise, & in my song, ile praise no bird but thee: The Hauke re- plide, [...] I will not loose my dy- et, To let a thousand [...] such to let a thousand such enioy, to let a thousand such en-ioy their quiet.

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X.

[...] NOELL: Adew, adew thou Courts delight, Adew, a- dew [...] thou Courts de- light, adew, adew thou Courts de- light, [...] adew, adew thou Courts delight, adew, a- dew thou Courts de- light, Vp- on [...] whose locks, vpon whose locks, the graces sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly [...] plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, the [...] graces sweetly plaide, Now thou art dead, art dead, now thou art dead, now thou art [...] dead, thou art dead, our pleasure dies out right, our pleasure dies, dies out right, For who [...] can ioy, when thou in dust art laide, when thou in dust art laide, Bedew my [...] notes, my notes, his death-bed with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, his [Page] [...] death-bed with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, (repeat) Time [...] helps some griefe, time helps some griefe, (repeat) No time your griefe out weares, [...] (repeat) No time your griefe out weares. No time your griefe out weares. [...] No time your griefe out weares, your griefe weares, your griefe out weares, your [...] griefe out weares, No time your griefe out weares. out weares.

FINIS.

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THE TABLE.

LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field. I

When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires doe attend hir. II

What haue the Gods, their consort sent from heauen. The first part. III

Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings. The second part. IIII

Three times a day my prayer is, to gaze my fill on Thoralis. V

Mars in a furie, gainst loues brightest Queene. VI

Thule the period of Cosmographic. The first part. VII

The Andelusian Merchant, that returnes. The second part. VIII

A Sparow-hauck proud, did hold in wicked Iayle. IX

NOELL, adew thou Courts delight. X

FINIS.

6. Voc. ALTO.

6. Voc. ALTO.

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ALTO. MADRIGALS OF 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a genarall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein. your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

[Page]6. Voc. ALTO.

I.

[...] LIke two proud armies, marching in the field, in the field, matching [...] in the field, in the field, Ioyning a thun- dring fight, ioyning a thundring fight, a [...] thun-dring fight, each scornes to yeeld, each scorns to yeeld, ioyning a thun- dring [...] fight, thun- dring fight, a thun- dring fight, a thundring fight, (repeat) each [...] scornes to yeeld, So in my heart, your beautie and my reason, the one claimes the [...] crowne, the other sayes tis treason, the other sayes tis treason, But oh your beautie [...] shineth as the Sunne, as the Sunne, And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vndone. [...] And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vndone, as quite vndone, as quite vndone, (repeat) [...] as quite vndone, as quite vn- done.

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II.

[...] WHen: The Faires doe attend hit, When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires [...] do attend hit, (repeat) They sweetly sing & sweetly talke, they sweetly [...] sing & sweetly, sweetly talke, and sweetly, sweetly doe commend hir, (repeat) [...] The Satires leape, (repeat) (repeat) and daūce the round, (repeat) [...] and daunce the round, and make their Conges to the ground, And euer more their [...] song it is, euer their song it is, Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis. (repeat) (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis, faire Thoralis, (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thora- lis, (repeat) faire Thoralis.

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue the Gods, the gods their cōsort [...] sent from heauen, (repeat) To charme [...] my sences, with heauens harmony, with [...] heauens harmony, (repeat) Care they for mee, of all my ioyes bee- reau'n, [...] Send they heauens quire, to make mee melo- dy, mee melo- dy, Send they [...] heauens quire, (repeat) to make mee melody, (repeat) (repeat) [...] Blessing mee, with Musickes fe-li-ci-tie, Great may your god-heads bee, [...] your god-heads bee, And greater still to ease my misery. to ease my misery, [...] to ease my miserie.

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IIII. The second part.

[...] MEe thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling [...] strings, warbling strings, Arions harpe, (repeat) dis- tilling [...] silu'ring sound, distilling silu'ring sound, Orpheous meane Lute, with all in [...] order brings, in order brings, And with soule pleasing Musick doth a bound, [...] doth a- bound, doth a bound, a bound, Whilst that olde Phaemius, softly [...] plaies the ground, (repeat) the ground, softly plaies the ground, O sweet [...] consort, great may your comfort bee, and greater still, (repeat) to ease my [...] mi-se-rie to ease my mi- se- rie.

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V.

[...] THree times: To gaze my fill on Thora- lis, (repeat) [...] on Tho-ralis, And three times thrise I pray, (repeat) [...] I dayly pray, (repeat) Not to offend that sacred May, But all the [...] yeere, (repeat) My sute must bee, That I may please, And she loue mee. that [...] I may please, And she loue mee, But all the yeere, But all the yeere, My sute must be, [...] But all the yeere, My sute must bee, must bee, That I may please, And she loue mee.

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie gainst [...] loues brightest queene, gainst loues brightest queene, brightest [...] queene, (repeat) Put on his helme, and toke him to his launce, And marching to the [...] mount, this wariour was seene, this wariour was seene, (repeat) And there his [...] ensignes did the god aduance, aduance, And by heauens greatest gates, (repeat) [...] hee stoutly swore, he stoutly swore, he stout'y swore, Venus should dye, should dye, [...] for she had wrong'd him sore, for she had wrong'd him sore, for she had wrong'd him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule: The period of Cosmographie, Cosmographie, Thule the [...] period of Cosmographie, of Cos- mographie, Thule, the period of Cosmographie, [...] Doth vaunt of Hecla, of Hecla, (repeat) Whose sulphuri- ous [...] fire, whose sulphu- rious fire, doth melt the frozen Clime, and thaw the [...] Skie, and thaw the Skie, the Skie, Tri- nacrian Aetnaes flames ascend not higher, as- cend [...] not higher, (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme wondrous, yet more [...] wondrous I, yet more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, (repeat) [...] with loue doth fry, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, whose hart with feare doth [...] freeze, with loue doth fry, with loue doth fry.

[...]

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X.

[...] NOELL: Andew, adew thou Courts delight, (repeat) [...] Adew, adew, adew thou Courts delight, thou Courts de- light, [...] adew thou Courts de- light, thou Courts delight, Vpon whose locks, (repeat) [...] the graces sweetly plaide. (repeat) the graces sweetly plaide, (repeat) [...] the graces sweetly plaide, sweetly plaide, Now thou art dead, art dead, [...] now thou art dead, (repeat) our pleasure dies out right, dies out right, out right, [...] For who can ioy, (repeat) when thou in dust art laide, art laide, art laide, Be- dew [...] my notes, his death-bed with your teares, with your teares, his death-bed with your [...] teares, (repeat) your teares, his death-bed with your teares, with your [Page] [...] teares, Time helps some griefe, time helps some griefe, (repeat) (repeat) No [...] time your griefe, no time your griefe out weares, (repeat) (repeat) [...] No time your griefe out weares. (repeat) No time your griefe out weares. [...] No time your griefe out weares.

FINIS.

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THE TABLE.

LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field. I

When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires doe attend hir. II

What haue the Gods, their consort sent from heauen. The first part. III

Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings. The second part. IIII

Three times a day my prayer is, to gaze my fill on Thoralis. V

Mars in a furie, gainst loues brightest Queene. VI

Thule the period of Cosmographie. The first part. VII

The Andelusian Merchant, that returnes. The second part. VIII

A Sparow-hauck proud, did hold in wicked Iayle. IX

NOELL, adew thou Courts delight. X

FINIS.

6. Voc. QVINTO.

6. Voc. QVINTO.

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QVINTO. MADRIGALS OF 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

[Page]

To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a genarall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground, neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein, your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

[Page]6. Voc. QVINTO.

I.

[...] LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field, (repeat) [...] Ioyning a thundring fight, ioyning a thun- dring fight, Each [...] scorns to yeeld, Ioyning a thun- dring fight, a thun- dring fight, a thundring [...] fight, a thun- dring fight, Each scorns to yeeld, to yeeld, So in my hart, your [...] beauty & my reason, The one claimes the crowne, (repeat) But oh your beautie [...] shineth as the Sunne, But oh your beautie shineth as the Sunne, And dazled reason [...] yeelds, as quite vndone. And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vndone. hee yeelds, as [...] quite vndone, (repeat) as quite vndone.

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II.

[...] WHen Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires do attend hir, Whē Thora- lis [...] delights to walke, to walke, the Faires do attend hir, (repeat) They sweetly [...] sing & sweetly talke, (repeat) (repeat) and sweetly doe com- mend [...] hir, (repeat) & sweetly, sweetly do commend hir, The Satires leape, and [...] daūce the roūd, (repeat) (repeat) (repeat) And make their conges to the groūd, And [...] euer more their song it is, Long maist yu liue faire Thoralis. faire Thoralis. (repeat) [...] (repeat) (repeat) faire Thoralis, (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis, faire Thoralis. (repeat) [...] Long maist yu liue, Long maist yu liue faire Thoralis, (repeat) faire Thoralis.

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue the Gods, the gods their cōsort [...] sent from heauen, (repeat) To [...] charme my sences, with heauens harmo- ny, [...] Care they for mee, of all my ioyes bereauen, (repeat) Send they heauens [...] quire, to make mee me-lo-dy, to make mee melo- dy, Send they heauens quire, [...] (repeat) to make mee melody, (repeat) (repeat) [...] Blessing mee, blessing mee, with Musickes fe-li-ci-tie, if it bee so, Great may your [...] god-heads be, (repeat) And greater still to ease my mise- ry. And greater [...] still, to ease my misery,

[...]

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie [...] gainst loues brightest queene, Mars in a fu- ry [...] gainst loues brightest queene, Put on his belme, and toke him to his launce, And [...] marching to the mount, (repeat) this wariour was seene, this wariour was seene, [...] And there his ensignes did the god aduance, (repeat) And by heauens [...] greatest gates, hee stoutly swore, hee stoutly swore, Venus should dye, for shee [...] had wrong'd him sore, for she had wrong'd him sore, him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule, the period of Cosmographie, Cosmographie, (repeat) [...] Thule, the period of Cosmographie, Doth vaunt of Hecla, of Hecla, [...] (repeat) Whose sulphuri- ous fire, whose sulphuri- ous [...] fire, Doth melt the frozen Clime, and thaw the Skie, [...] and thaw the Skie, (repeat) (repeat) the Skie, Tri- nacri- an Aetnaes flames [...] ascend not higher, (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme wondrous, [...] yet more wondrous I, yet more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, [...] With loue doth fry. Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue doth fry, [...] with loue doth fry.

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VIII. The second part

[...] THe Andelusian Merchant, that re- turnes, Laden with [...] Cutchinele and China dishes, Laden with Cutchinele & China [...] dishes, (repeat) China dishes, (repeat) dishes, [...] Reports in Spaine, (repeat) how strangely Fogo burnes, how strangely Fogo burnes, [...] (repeat) A midst an Ocean full of flying fishes, full of flying fishes, [...] full of flying fish, full of flying fishes, These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous [...] I, more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue, with loue doth [...] frye. with loue, with loue doth frye.

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IX.

[...] A Sparow Hauke proud dyd hold in wick- ed [...] Iayle, (repeat) did hold in wicked Iayle, [...] Musicks sweet Chori- ster, the Nightingale, the Nightingale, (repeat) [...] Nightingale, To whom with sighes she saide, (repeat) oh set me [...] free, (repeat) and in my song, (repeat) and in my song, (repeat) ile praise no [...] bird but thee: The hauke re- plide, I will not loose my dyet, I [...] will not loose, not loose my dyet, To let a thousand such en- ioy, to let a thousand [...] such enioy, To let a thousand such enioy their qui et, their qui- et.

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X.

[...] NOELL: Adew, adew thou Courts delight, delight, thou [...] Courts delight, adew, adew thou Courts delight, ij. [...] Courts de- light, Vpon whose locks, the graces sweetly plaide, [...] the graces sweetly plaide, sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, Now [...] thou art dead, art dead, now thou art dead, our pleasure dies out right, out right, [...] For who can Ioy, for who can ioy, when thou in dust art layde, when thou in [...] dust art laide, Bedew my notes, his death-bed with your teares, his death-bed [...] with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, with [...] your teares, his death-bed with your teares, with your teares, Time helps some griefe, [Page] [...] time helps some griefe, time helps some griefe, No time your griefes out weares, [...] no time your griefes out weares, no time your griefes out weares, no time your [...] griefes out weares, your griefes out weares, no time your griefes out weares. out weares.

FINIS.

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THE TABLE.

LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field. I

When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires doe attend hir. II

What haue the Gods, their consort sent from heauen. The first part. III

Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings. The second part. IIII

Three times a day my prayer is, to gaze my fill on Thoralis. V

Mars in a furie, gainst loues brightest Queene. VI

Thule the period of Cosmographie. The first part. VII

The Andelusian Merchant, that returnes. The second part. VIII

A Sparow-hauck proud, did hold in wicked Iayle. IX

NOELL, adew thou Courts delight. X

FINIS.

6. Voc. SESTO.

6. Voc. SESTO.

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SESTO. MADRIGALS OF 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices. Made & newly published BY Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, Organist.

AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley. 1600.

[Page]

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a genarall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground, neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein, your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

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I.

[...] LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field, (repeat) [...] Ioyning a thun- dring fight, ioyning a thun- dring fight, Each [...] scorns to yeeld, Ioyning a thun- dring [...] fight, Each scorns to yeeld, [...] So in my hart, The other saies tis treason, (repeat) But oh your [...] beautie shineth, as the Sun, as the Sun, And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vndone. hee [...] yeelds, as quite vn- done. as quite vn- done. as quite vn- done, as quite vn- done, [...] vn- done.

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II.

[...] WHen Thoralis delights to walke, to walke, The Faires doe attend [...] hir, They sweetly sing & sweetly talke, they sweetly sing, and sweetly talke, (repeat) [...] And sweetly do cōmend hir, & sweetly, sweetly do commend hir, (repeat) [...] The Satires leape, (repeat) and daūce the round, (repeat) [...] And make their conges to the groūd, And euer more their song it is, Long maist thou [...] liue faire Thoralis. (repeat) Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis. [...] (repeat) (repeat) faire Thoralis. Long maist thou [...] liue faire Thora- lis, (repeat) (repeat) [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis, faire Thoralis. (repeat)

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue: Care they for mee, [...] Send they heauēs quire, to make me melo- dy, [...] to make mee me-lo- dy, me-lo-dy, [...] Blessing me, with Musicks fe- li-ci-tie, bles- sing me, with Musicks fe-li-ci-tie, If [...] it bee so, bee so, Great may your god-heads bee, And greater still, and greater still to [...] ease my mi-se- ry, to ease my mi-se-rie. my mi-se-rie.

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IIII. The second part.

[...] MEe thinks I heare, Amphions warbling strings, mee thinks [...] I heare, Amphions warbling strings, warbling strings, [...] Orpheous meane Lute, with all in order brings, And with soule pleasing Musick [...] which doth a bound, a bound, doth a bound, Whilst that old Phaemius, [...] softlie plaies the ground, (repeat) soft-ly plaies the ground, O sweet consort, [...] Great may your comfort bee, and greater still, & greater still, to ease mee, to ease [...] my mi-se-rie. my mi-se-rie.

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V.

[...] THree times a day my praier is, my praier is, praier is, [...] To gaze my fill on Thora- lis, And three times thrise, (repeat) [...] I day- ly pray, Not to offend that sacred May, But all the yeere, (repeat) [...] My sute must bee, That I may please, And she loue me, loue mee, That I may please, [...] may please, And shee loue mee, But all the yeere, (repeat) My sute must be, But [...] all the yeere, But all the yeere, My sute must bee, That I may please, and shee loue me, [...] And shee loue mee.

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie gainst [...] loues brightest queene, gainst loues brightest queene, Put [...] on his healme, and toke him to his launce, And marching to the mount, this wariour was [...] seene, this wariour was seene, (repeat) And there his ensignes did the god aduance, ad- uance, [...] the god ad- uance, And by heauens greatest gates, & by heauens greatest gates, [...] hee stoutly swore, (repeat) Venus should die, for shee had wrong'd him sore, Venus [...] should die, for she had wrong'd him sore, wrong'd him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule: The period of Cosmographie, of Cosmographie, [...] the period of Cosmogra- phie, the period of Cosmogra- phie, [...] of Cosmographie, the period of Cosmographie, Doth vaunt of Hecla, (repeat) [...] Whose sulphurious fire, whose sulphu- ri- ous [...] fire, Doth melt the frozen Clime, & thaw the Skie, the Skie, the Skie, Tri- nacri-an [...] Aetnaes flames ascend not higher, (repeat) ascend not higher, These things seeme [...] wondrous, yet more wondrous I, (repeat) Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With [...] loue doth fry, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue, with loue doth fry, [...] with loue doth fry.

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VIII. The second part

[...] THe Andelusian Merchant that re- turnes, that re- turnes, [...] Laden with Cutchinele & China dishes, (repeat) [...] (repeat) Reports in Spaine, (repeat) [...] how strangely Fogo burnes, how strangely Fogo burnes, how strangely it burnes, how [...] strangely Fogo burnes, A midst an Ocean full of flying fishes, full of flying fishes, [...] (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous I, [...] (repeat) Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue doth frye. Whose hart with [...] feare doth freeze, with loue, with loue doth fry.

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IX.

[...] A Sparow Hauke proud did hold in wicked Iayle, did [...] hold in wicked Iayle, Musicks sweet Chorister, the Nightin-gale, [...] Musicks sweet Chorister, the Nightingale, To whom with sighes she said, [...] To whom, to whom with sighes shee said, she said, O set mee free, (repeat) [...] and in my song, (repeat) & in my song, ile praise, and in my song, ile praise no [...] bird but thee: The Hauke re- plide, I will not loose my dyet, [...] To let a thousand such en ioy, to let a thousand such, to let a thousand such en- ioy, [...] enioy their quiet.

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X.

[...] NOELL: Adew, adew thou Courts delight, thou Courts delight, (repeat) [...] Adew thou Courts de- light, thou [...] Courts delight, Vpon whose locks, whose locks, the graces sweetly plaide, (repeat) [...] the graces sweetly plaide, (repeat) Now thou art dead, (repeat) (repeat) [...] art dead, our pleasure dies out right, pleasure dies out right, For who can [...] ioy, (repeat) when thou in dust art laide, art laide, Bedew my notes, his [...] death-bed with your teares, (repeat) with your teares, his death-bed [...] with your teares, his death-bed with your teares, (repeat) your teares, [...] Time helps some griefe, (repeat) time helps some griefe, (repeat) No [Page] [...] time your griefe out weares, (repeat) No time your griefe, (repeat) No [...] time your griefe out weares, your griefe out weares, No time your griefe out weares. no [...] time your griefe, No time your griefe out weares. (repeat) no time your [...] griefe out weares.

FINIS.

[...]

6. Voc. BASSO.

6. Voc. BASSO.

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To the right noble minded, and most vertuous gentleman, Maister George Brooke Esquier.

I Doe not doubt (most worthie Sir) but that, as well in a genarall opinion, as in your owne iudicious and approued censure, it may bee held for a part of little wit and lesse manners, (vpon so weake a ground, neither my selfe, nor my poore deseruings being knowne vnto you,) to present vnto you these slender labours, as the fruits of my affected studies. But vnder the fauour of your grauer wisedome, I humbly beseech both your vertuous patience, and pardon heerein: for a generall worlds report both of honour and your delight in this kind, hath so thoroughly possessed my well pleased eares, as hath (forgetfully of my poore selfe) enboldned my spirits, to make your onely selfe, the true iudge, and patron of these my vndeseruing papers. Humbly crauing heerein, your gracious acceptance, and in their litle worth to nourish them, as beegotten for, and to your onely honorable selfe. Wherin, my heereafter times shall euer bind me to acknowledge it in all due & reuerent thankefulnesse, & in my best wits, deserue it as I may. Euer resting, as best shall become mee.

Your Worships in all seruice Thomas Weelkes.

[Page]6. Voc. BASSO.

I.

[...] LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field, marching in the [...] field, Ioyning a thun- dring fight, ioyning a thun- dring fight, Each [...] scorns to yeeld, Ioyning a thun- dring [...] fight, Each scorns to yeeld, So [...] in my hart my hart, The one claimes the crowne, (repeat) But oh your [...] beautie shineth, (repeat) as the Sun, And dazled reason yeelds, as quite vn- done [...] and dazeld reason yeelds, as quite vndone.

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II.

[...] WHen Thoralis: The Faires doe attend hir, The Satires leape, [...] the Satires leape, and daunce the round, and [...] daunce the round, (repeat) (repeat) And make their conges to the [...] ground, And euer more their song it is, Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis. [...] Long maist thou liue faire Thoralis. faire Thoralis.

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III. The first part.

[...] WHat haue: Care they for mee, [...] Send they heauens quire, send they heauens [...] quire, to make mee melo- dy, to make mee [...] melo- dy, to make mee me-lo-dy, Blessing, blessing mee, blessing mee, with [...] Musicks fe-li-ci-tie, And greater still to ease my mi-se-ry. to ease, to ease my [...] mi-se-ry.

[...]

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VI.

[...] MArs in a fu- rie [...] gainst loues brightest queene, Put on his healme, and toke him [...] to his launce, And marching to the mount, this wariour was seene, And there his ensignes [...] did the god aduance, And by heauens greatest gates, and by heauens greatest gates, he [...] stoutly swore, (repeat) Venus should die, for shee had wrong'd him sore, [...] wrong'd him sore.

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VII. The first part.

[...] THule, the period of Cosmographie, (repeat) [...] of Cosmographie, Doth vaunt of Hecla, (repeat) [...] Whose sulphurious fire, whose su'phu- ri- ous [...] fire, doth melt the frozen Clime, Tri nacri-an Aetnaes flames ascend not higher, [...] ascend not higher, not higher, These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous [...] I, (repeat) Whose hart with feare doth freeze, with loue doth fry, doth fry.

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VIII. The second part

[...] THe Andelusian Merchant that re- turnes, Laden [...] with Cutchinele & China dishes, (repeat) [...] and China dishes, (repeat) Reports in Spaine, in Spaine, [...] how strangely Fogo burnes, (repeat) (repeat) how [...] strangely Fogo burnes, A midst an Ocean full of flying fishes, full of flying fishes, [...] (repeat) (repeat) These things seeme wondrous, yet more wondrous I, [...] yet more wondrous I, Whose hart with feare doth freeze, With loue doth frye.

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IX.

[...] A Sparow Hauke: Musicks sweet Cho- rister, (repeat) [...] the Nightingale, To whom with sighes she saide, oh [...] set mee free, (repeat) and in my song, (repeat) ile praise thee, and in my [...] song, ile praise no bird but thee: To let a thousand, to let a thousand [...] such enioy, To let a thousand such enioy their qui-et,

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X.

[...] NOELL: Adew, adew thou Courts delight, adew, adew, a- dew [...] thou Courts delight, Adew, adew, adew thou Courts de- light. [...] Adew, adew thou Courts delight, de- light, Vpon whose locks, the graces sweetly [...] plaide, sweetly plaide, the graces sweetly plaide, sweetly, sweetly plaide Now thou art [...] dead, (repeat) (repeat) art dead, our pleasure dies out right, out right, [...] For who can Ioy, when thou in dust art laide, Bedew my notes, his death-bed [...] with your teares, (repeat) (repeat) his death-bed with your teares, [...] Tune helps some griefe, (repeat) time helps some griefe, (repeat) no [...] time your griefe out weares, No time your griefe out weares, (repeat) your [Page] [...] griefe out weares, no time your griefe, your griefe out weares, no time your griefe out [...] weares, no time your griefe out weares, your griefe out weares, out weares.

FINIS.

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THE TABLE.

LIke two proud Armies, marching in the field. I

When Thoralis delights to walke, the Faires doe attend hir. II

What haue the Gods, their consort sent from heauen. The first part. III

Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings. The second part. IIII

Three times a day my prayer is, to gaze my fill on Thoralis. V

Mars in a furie, gainst loues brightest Queene. VI

Thule the period of Cosmographic. The first part. VII

The Andelusian Merchant, that returnes. The second part. VIII

A Sparow-hauck proud, did hold in wicked Iayle. IX

NOELL, adew thou Courts delight. X

FINIS.

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Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts apt for the viols and voices. Made & newly published by Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, organist.

Weelkes, Thomas, 1575 (ca.)-1623.

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— Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts apt for the viols and voices. Made & newly published by Thomas Weelkes of the Coledge at Winchester, organist., Weelkes, Thomas, 1575 (ca.)-1623..

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Printed by Thomas Este, the assigne of Thomas Morley,. At London :: 1600.. (Six partbooks. At head of title, part 1: "Canto."; part 2: "Alto."; part 3: "Tenore."; part 4: "Basso."; part 5: "Quinto."; part 6: "Sesto.".) (Signatures: [A]² B-D⁴; [A]² B-D⁴; [A]² B-D⁴; [A]² B-D⁴; [A]² B-D⁴; A⁴ D⁴. Parts 1-5 have additional title pages, "Madrigals of 6. parts", on C2; the sesto part has this title page only.) (Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.)

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