The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for voyals [sic] and voyces. Newly composed by Iohn Wilbye. 1609. — Madrigals, voices (3-6), set 2

The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for voyals [sic] and voyces. Newly composed by Iohn Wilbye. 1609. — Madrigals, voices (3-6), set 2

Table of contents

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

3 voices

I.

II.

III.

IIII.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII. Risposta.

4 voices

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIIII.

XV.

XVI.

5 voices

XVII. First Part.

XVIII. Second part.

XIX.

XX.

XXI. First part.

XXII. Second part.

XXIII.

XXIIII.

XXV.

XXVI.

6 voices

XXVII.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

3 voices

I.

II.

III.

IIII.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

Of 4. voc.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIIII.

XV.

XVI.

5 voices

XVII. First Part.

XVIII. Second part.

XIX.

XX.

XXI. First part.

XXII. Second part.

XXIII.

XXIIII.

XXV.

XXVI.

6 voices

XXVII.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

5 voices

XVII. First Part.

XVIII. Second part.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIIII.

XXV.

XXVI.

6 voices

XXVII.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

4 voices

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIIII.

XV.

XVI.

5 voices

XVII. First Part.

XVIII. Second part.

XIX.

XX.

XXI. First part.

XXII. Second part.

XXIII.

XXIIII.

XXV.

XXVI.

6 voices

XXVII.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

6 voices

XXVII. SEXTVS.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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Title page

TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

THE TABLE.

3 voices

I.

II.

III.

IIII.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII. Risposta.

4 voices

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIIII.

XV.

XVI.

5 voices

XVII. First Part.

XVIII. Second part.

XIX.

XX.

XXI. First part.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIIII.

XXV.

XXVI.

6 voices

XXVII.

XXVIII. First part.

XXIX. Second part.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIIII.

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[Page] [Page] CANTVS. THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Ʋoyces.

Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609

LONDON: Printed by Tho Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe understanding you have in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) often wants the fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne up by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought upon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBYE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amint as dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares, XXXI

Stay Coridon thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

3 voices

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I.

[...] COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing, Now figh and [...] groane, Dead is my loue my hope, my ioy, ij. my spring, Dead, dead & [...] gone, dead is my loue, my hope, my ioy, my spring, O she that was your summers Queen your [...] dayes delight, is gone and will no more be seene, O cruell spight, Breake all your Pipes that [...] wont to sound with plea- sant cheere, And cast your selues vpon the ground to [...] waile my deere, to waile my deere, Come shepheard swaynes, Come Nimphs and all a roe, [...] Come Nimphs and all a roe, ij. to help me cry, Dead is my loue, ij. [...] Dead is my loue, ij. And seeing she is so, ij. loe [...] now I dye, loe now I dye.

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II.

[...] FLourish ye hillockes set with fragrant flowers, ij. [...] So gra- ced with her der- ty, whose eyes bedew you with their pearled [...] showers, whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers bewayling loues impi- ety. [...] Happy yee are, be prodigall disposed, disdaine not loues lamenting, ij. [...] Let me, ij. but kisse those steps, those steps where she repo- sed, to ease my [...] harts tormen- ting, to ease my harts tormen- ting, then while she flyes me, ij. [...] here I lye and languish, sounding my sorrowes, ij. ij. sor- rowes, [...] tun'd in notes of anguish. tun'd in notes, tun'd in notes, ij. ij. ij. of anguish.

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III.

[...] AH, cruell Amarillis, ij. since thou [...] takst delight, to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie, ij. dit- tie, [...] of a dolefull dit- tie, To triumph, ij. ij. ij. ij. [...] still without remorse or pittie, I loath this life, Death must my sorrowes right, ij. [...] And least vaine hope, ij. my miseries renue, Come quickly [...] death, ij. reaue me of breath, (Ah) cruell Amarillis, ij. ij. [...] Cruell Amarillis, Amarillis, cruell Ama-rillis, cruell a-dew, adew.

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IIII.

[...] SO light is loue, ij. in matchles beautie shining, So light is loue in matchles [...] beautie shi- ning, When she reuisits Cypris hallowed bowers, Two feeble doues harnest in [...] silken twi- ning, ij. harnest in silken twi- ning, [...] can draw her Chariot midst the Paphian flowers, can draw her Chariot midst the [...] Paphian flowers, ij. Lightnes to loue, ij. how ill it fit- teth? [...] Light- nesse to loue how ill it fit- teth? lightnesse to loue, light- nesse to [...] loue how ill it fit- teth? so hea- uie on my hart she sitteth. Lightnes to loue how [...] ill it fit- teth? light- nes to loue, ij. how ill it fitteth? light- nes to loue, [...] ij. ij. how ill it fitteth? so heauy on my hart, (O) on my hart she sitteth.

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V.

[...] AS faire as morne, as fresh as May, A pretty grace in saying nay, ij. [...] Smil'st thou sweet hart? ij. then sing and say, Ta na na no, [...] ij. Ta na na na, &c. But (O) ij. ij. that [...] loue inchanting eye, Loe here my doubtful doome I try, But (O) ij. ij. that loue en- chanting [...] eye, Loe here my doubtfull doome I try, my doubt- full doome I try. Tell [...] me my sweet, liue I or dye? ij. Tell me my sweet, liue I or [...] dye? ij. ij. She smiles, ij. [...] Fa la la, &c. Ah, she frownes, Aye me, [...] Aye me I dye, I dye.

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VI.

[...] O What shall I doe, or whether shall I turne me? Shall I make vnto her eyes? [...] ij. O no they'l burn me, Shall I seale vp my eies & speak my part? then [...] in a floud of tears, ij. ij. I drown my hart, for tears being stopt will [...] swel, wil swel, will [...] swel for scope, though they o'reflow, loue, life, and hope, By beauties eye Ile chuse to [...] dye. At thy feet I fall fayre Creature, rich in beautie, And for pitty call, for pittie [...] call, O kill not loue and duty, ij. ij. ij. [...] Let thy smooth tongue fanne on my sence thy breath, to stay thine eies from burning [...] me to death. But if mer- cy be exiled from a thing so fayre compiled, [...] ij. then patiently by thee Ile dye. Ile dye.

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VII.

[...] I Liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath; and yet me thinks I do not breath; [...] I thirst, and drinke; I drinke and thirst againe; I sleep & [...] yet I dreame I am awake; I hope for that I haue; I haue and want, I sing & sigh; I [...] loue and hate at once, I sing and sigh, I loue and hate at once. O tell me restlesse [...] soule, ij. ij. What vncouth iarre doth cause such want [...] in store? doth cause such want in store, in peace such warre? Doth cause such want in [...] store, in peace such warre?

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VIII. Risposta.

[...] THere is a iewell, there is a iew- ell which no Indian mines can [...] buy, no Chimick art can counterfait, It makes men rich in greatest po- uertie, It makes men [...] rich, it makes men rich in greatest pouer- tie, ij. [...] in greatest pouertie; Makes water wine; turnes wooden cups to gould; makes water wine, ij. [...] turnes wooden cups to gould, The homely whi- stle, ij. [...] to sweet musicks straine, the homely whi- stle, ij. ij. [...] the homely whi- stle, ij. to sweet musicks straine, Seldome it [...] comes to few from heauen sent, ij. seldome it comes, ij. [...] ij. to few from heauen sent, That much in little all in naught ij. [...] ij. ij. CONTENT.

Here endeth the songs of 3. parts.

4 voices

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IX.

[...] WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying, She grieued, [...] ij. she grieued then for her vnkinde de-nying, Oft sighing, oft sighing, [...] oft sighing fore and with a hart vnfay- ned, I dye, I dye, I dye, ij. [...] I dye, I dye, I dye, ij. I dye, I dye, I [...] dye she thus complayned, Whom when Amintas spyed, then both for [...] ioy out cryed, I loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye, ij. [...] And I Amintas till I dye.

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X.

[...] HAp- py streames whose trembling fall, [...] ij. with still murmure soft- ly [...] glyding, Hap- py Birds whose chirping call, ij. [...] with sweet melo-dy delight- ing, Hath mou'd her flin-tie and [...] relentlesse hart, ij. to listen to your harmony, [...] your harmo- ny, inchan- ted with your melody, ij. [...] your me- lody, Sing on and carroll forth your glee, [...] sing on, ij. sing on, She graunts you [Page] [...] leaue, ij. her rayes to see, She graunts you leaue, ij. her rayes [...] to see, Happy were I, were I, happy were I, were I, could loue [...] but so delight her, But aye alas, my loue doth still despight her. But aye a- las, [...] alas my loue doth still des- pight her.

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XI.

[...] CHange me O heauens, ij. ij. into the Ruby [...] stone, That on my Loues faire locks doth hang in gold, that on my [...] Loues faire locks, that on my Loues faire locks doth hang in gold, Yet [...] leaue me speech to her to make my moane, yet leaue me speech to her to make my [...] moane, to make my moan, ij. to her to make my moane, And giue me [...] eies her beauties to be- hold, and giue me eyes, and giue me eyes her beauties [...] to behold, or if you will not make, ij. my flesh a stone, make [...] her hard heart seeme flesh, that now seems none. make her hard heart seem flesh, that [...] now seenis none. make her, make her hard hart seem flesh that now seemes none.

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XII.

[...] LOue not me for comely grace, for my pleasing eye or face; Nor for [...] any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart: For those may faile, those may [...] faile, ij. for those may faile or turne to ill, So thou and I shall seuer: [...] Keepe therfore a true womans eye, keepe therefore a true wo- mans [...] eye, keepe therefore a true wo- mans eye, ij. And [...] loue me still, but know not why; And loue me still, but know not why, ij. [...] but know not why, And loue me still but know not [...] why, ij. So hast thou the same reason still, to dote vpon me [...] euer. to dote, vp- on me euer. ij.

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XIII.

[...] FLye not so swift my [...] deere, behold me dying, If not a smi- ling [...] glance, a smi- ling glance, If not a smi- ling [...] glance for all my crying, Yet kill me with [...] thy frownes: The Satyres o're the lawnes full nimbly daun- cing, [...] Friske it apace, apace, to view thy beauties glan- cing, Thy beauties [...] glanding; See how they coast the downes, ij. See how they [...] coast the downes, Fayne wouldst thou turne and yeeld them their delight, ij. [Page] [...] faine wouldst thou turne, and yeeld them their de- light, [...] ij. faine wouldst thou turne, fayne wouldst [...] thou turne and yeeld them their delight, but that thou fearst [...] least I should steale a sight.

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XIIII.

[...] I Loue alas, alas, yet am not loued, alas, alas, yet am not [...] loued, For cruell she, to pit- ty, ij. ij. ij. is not [...] moued: My constant loue with scorne she ill rewardeth, onely my sighs a little [...] she regardeth, onely my sighs a lit-tle lit-tle shee regardeth, Yet more and [...] more the quenchlesse fire increaseth, yet more and more the quenchlesse fire in- creaseth, [...] which to my greater torment neuer ceaseth. neuer cea- seth. [...] yet more and more, ij. the quenchlesse fire increaseth, which to my grea- ter [...] torment ne- uer cea- seth.

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XV.

[...] AS matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire Le- onilla, faire [...] Le-o-nilla, faire Leo-nilla, As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire Leonil- la, [...] So thy sowre-sweet loues: ij. For when young Acons eye thy proud hart [...] tames, for when young Acons eye, for when young Acons eye thy proud hart [...] tames, Thou dy'st in him, and li- uest in my flames. thou dyest [...] in him, and liuest in my flames. For when young Acons eye thy [...] proud hart tames, for when young Acons eye thy proud hart tames, ij. [...] Thou dyest in him, and liuest in my flames. Thou [...] dyest in him, and liuest in my flames and li- uest in my flames.

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XVI.

[...] HAppy, oh happy he, who not affecting The endlesse toyles, [...] the end- lesse toyles attending world- ly cares, [...] at- ten- ding worldly cares, at- tending world- ly [...] cares, With minde repos'd all discontents re- iect- ings In silent peace his [...] way to heauen pre- pares: In silent peace, ij. his way to heauen, in silent [...] peace his way to heauen prepares, ij. Dceming his life a [...] Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his wea- ry Pilgrimage. Dce- ming [...] his life a Scene, the world a Stage whereon man acts his wea-ry [...] Pilgrimage. whereon man acts, whereon man acts his wea- ry Pilgrimage.

Here endeth the Songs of 4. parts.

5 voices

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XVII. First Part.

[...] SWeet hony sucking Bees, ij. why doe you still, ij. [...] ij. surfet on Roses, Pincks and Violets? As if the choysest Nectar lay [...] in them, wher with you store, ij. ij. your curious Cabi- nets: [...] Ah, make your flight, Ah, make your flight, ij. [...] ij. to Melisuauiaes lips, there, there may you reuell in Am- brosian [...] cheere, Where smi- ling Ro- ses and sweet Lillies sits, [...] there may you reuell, keeping their Spring-tide, keeping their Spring-tide [...] graces, keeping their Spring-tide graces all the yeare. keeping their Spring-tide [...] gra-ces all the yeare, ij.

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XVIII. Second part.

[...] YEt Sweet take heed, all sweets are hart to get, sting not, [...] sting not her soft lippes, Oh beware of that, ij. ij. [...] ij. Oh, oh beware of that, For if one fla- ming dart come from her [...] eye, Come from her eye, ij. was neuer dart so sharp, Ah then you dye, you [...] dye, ij. For if one fla- ming dart come from her [...] eye, ij. ij. was neuer dart so sharp, Ah then you dye, then you [...] dye, ij. Ah then you dye, ij. was neuer dart so sharp, ij. [...] Ah then you dye, ij. ij. ij. [...] ij. Ah then you dye. Ah then you dye.

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XIX.

[...] ALl pleasure is of this condition, It pricks men forward to fru-i-ti-on, [...] ij. All It pricks men for- ward [...] to fru-i-ti-on, But if enioy'd then like the humming Bee, then like the humming [...] Bee, ij. The honie be-ing shed away doth flee, a- way [...] doth flee, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart, But leaues a [...] sting that wounds the inward hart, ij. the [...] inward hart, With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart. With gnawing [...] griefe, and neuer ending smart. ij. With gnawing [...] griefe, and neuer ending smart.

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XX.

[...] OFt haue I vow'd how dearely I did loue thee, how deerely [...] I did loue thee, And oft obseru'd thee with all willing dutie, ij. [...] Sighs I haue sent stil hoping to remoue thee, ij. stil hoping to re- moue [...] thee: Millions of tears, of tears, I tendred to thy beautie, millions of teares, ij. [...] I tendred to thy beautie, Yet thou of sighs and silly teares regardlesse, yet [...] thou of sighs and sil- ly teares regardlesse, suffrest my fee-ble [...] hart to pine with anguish, ij. Whilst all my barren hopes re- turne [...] re- ward- lesse, My bitter dayes doe wast, and I doe lan- guish. [...] My bitter dayes doe wast, and I doe languish. and I doe lan- guish.

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XXI. First part.

[...] DOwne in a valley, ij. ij. as Alenis trips, [...] Daphne sat sweetly sleeping, ij. sat sleeping, Soone as the [...] wanton toucht her ruddy lips, she nicely fell a weeping, ij. ij. [...] The wag full softly lifts her, And too and fro hee sifts her, ij. [...] But when nor sighes nor kisses mou'd her pitty, nor sighes could moue her pitty, nor [...] teares could moue her pitty, ij. With plaints he warbles [...] forth, he warbles forth this mournfull dit- ty. But when nor sighes (ah) nor kisses mou'd [...] her pit- ty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor teares could moue her pitty, ij. [...] with plaints he warbles forth, he warbles forth, ij. this mournful ditty.

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XXII. Second part.

[...] HArd Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? [...] Fayre Daphne so disdainfull? ij. [...] Cupid thy shafts are too vniust- ly dar- ted, [...] Fond Loue thy wounds be painefull, ij. [...] But sith my louely Iewell is prou'd so coy and cru- ell, Ile liue and [...] fro- licke in her beauties treasure, Ile liue and fro- licke [...] in her beauties treasure, But languish, faint, and dye, ij. [...] ij. But languish, faint and [Page] [...] dye in her dis- plea- sure. Ile liue and fro- licke, in her beauties [...] treasure, Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties trea- sure, But [...] lan- guish, But languish, faint and dye, ij. in her dis- pleasure. [...] But languish faint and dye, ij. in her displea- sure.

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XXIII.

[...] WEepe, weepe, weepe, mine eyes, my hart can take no rest, weepe, weepe, [...] weepe my hart, mine eyes shall ne're be blest, Weepe hart, weepe eyes, and both this accent [...] cry, A thousand deaths I dye, A thousand thousand deaths I dye, I dye, ij. [...] Aye me, ah, ah, cruell Fortune, Aye me, Now Leander to [...] dye I feare not, Death doe thv worst I care not, ij. ij. [...] I hope, I hope when I am dead in E-li-zian plaine, ij. [...] To meet, and there with ioy, ij. ij. with [...] ioy weele loue againe.

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XXIIII.

[...] THere where I saw her lonely beautie, her louely beautie painted, [...] Where Vennus-like my sacred Goddesse shineth, There with precellent ob- iect [...] mine eyes fainted, That faire but fatall star, ij. my dole deui- neth, [...] As soone as morning in her light appea- reth, Her sweet salute my [...] minde or'e clouded cleareth, ij. When night againe the [...] dayes de- light be-rea- ueth, My harts true sa- crifice she quicke recei- ueth, [...] But night and day slie craftily forsakes me, To tedious day to [...] loathsome night, to loathsome night betakes me. to tedious day to loath- some [...] night betakes me.

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XXV.

[...] YEe that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] Yee that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] And dwell in Mu- sicks sweetest Ayres, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose [...] cares are dainty, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose cares are dainty, Whose [...] cares are dainty, ij. Not clogd with earth or world- ly [...] cares, or worldly cares, Come sing this song, made in Amphions praise, [...] Who now is dead, yet you his Fame can raise, Call him againe, let him not [...] dye, But liue in Musicks sweetest birth, Place him in fayrest memory, And [Page] [...] let him triumph ouer death, And let him tri- umph ouer death, O sweetly [...] sung, his huing wish attend yee, ij. his These were his words, the mirth of [...] heauen, God send yee. the mirth of heauen God send yee.

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XXVI.

[...] A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire, scorched his lips for his so [...] fond desire: I not so fond, but gaz'd, whilst such fire burned, And all my hart straight into [...] flames was turned: And all my hart straight into flames was turned, ij. [...] ij. And all my hart, ij. [...] straight into flames was tur- ned. His fire was stolne, and stolne things [...] goe amisse, ij. But I alas vniustly, but I alas vniustly, ij. [...] for to haue her her heauenly fire the Gods & graces gaue her, the [...] Gods and graces gaue her. ij. ij. the [...] Gods and graces gaue her.

Here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

6 voices

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XXVII.

[...] O Wretched man, O wretched man, why lou'st thou [...] earthly life? Which naught enioyes but cares and endlesse trouble? What pleasure [...] here but breeds a world of griefe? What howers ease that anguish doth not double? [...] No earthly ioyes but haue their discon-tents, but haue their discon-tents, [...] Then loath that life, ij. which causeth such laments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thoughts, there least my eye is striking, ij. [...] there least mine eye is striking; Where least I come, there most [...] my hart abideth; ij. Where most I loue, I [...] neuer shew my li- king; From what my minde doth hold, my body sly- deth, [...] I carelesse seeme where most my care dependeth, my care dependeth, A [...] coy regard, where most my soule at- tendeth. ij. where [...] most my soule at- tendeth. ij. where most my soule at- ten- deth. [...]

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe I lan- guish, And in disdaine, my [...] selfe, my selfe from ioy I banish; These secret thoughts envvraps me so in an- guish, [...] That life I hope will soone from body vanish, And to some rest will quickly be con- uayed, [...] will quickly be conuay- ed, And to some rest will quickly be conuay'd, [...] will quickly be con- uay'd, That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stayed. And [...] to some rest vvill quickly be conuayed, ij. vvill quickly be [...] conuay- ed, And to some rest vvill quickly be conuay'd, and to some rest vvill [...] quickly be con- uayed, That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stay-ed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot: To pitty, pitty me, to pit- ty me, Who more then lite, then [...] life doe loue thee, then life doe loue thee, O, O, cruell fates, ij. See now a- way [...] shee's flying, ij. And flye she will, and leaue me dying, and [...] flye she will, alas, a- las, alas, alas, and leaue me dy- ing, Farewell, fare- well, [...] farewell, most faire, farewell, farewell, yet more disdainefull, Was neuer griefe like [...] mine, nor death more painfull, O, O, cruell fates, ij. See now a- way [...] shee's flying, ij. And flye shee will, ij. alas, [...] a- las, and leaue me dy-ing, Farewell, farewell, most fayre, farewell, farewell, [...] was ne- uer griefe like mine, nor death more painefull.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night, ij. best friend vnto those cares, That do a- rise [...] from painfull melancholy, arise from painful me-lancholy My life so ill through [...] want of comfort fares, That vn-to thee, to thee, I consecrate it who- ly, ij. [...] Sweet night draw on, ij. O sweet night draw on, sweet [...] night draw on, ij. my griefes when they be told To shades and [...] darknes, find some ease from pai- ning, And while thou all in silence dost en- fold, [...] in silence dost enfold, & while thou all in silence dost en- fold, [...] I then shall haue best time for my complaining. ij. for [...] my complay- ning. I then shall haue best time for my complaining.

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XXXII.

[...] STAY Coridon thou swaine, talke [...] not so soone of dying, What [...] though thy hart be slaine? ij. [...] What though thy loue be fly- ing? She threatens [...] thee but dares not strike, ij. ij. [...] Thy Nimph is light, and shadow like, ij. [...] ij. Thy Nimph is light and shadow [...] like, Thy Nimph is light and shadow like, ij. [Page] [...] For if thou follow her, ij. Sheele flye from [...] thee, ij. ij. sheele flye from thee, But [...] if thou flye from her, sheele fol- low thee. sheele follow [...] thee. sheele follow thee. ij. ij. ij. For if thou [...] follow her, ij. sheele flye from thee, from thee, But if thou [...] flye from her, ij. sheele fol- low [...] thee. But if thou flye from her, sheele fol- low [...] thee. sheele follow thee. ij. sheele follow thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOftly, ij. O softly, [...] drop my eyes least you be dry, And make [...] my hart with griefe to melt and dye, [...] Now powre out teares apace, Now powre out teares apace, ij. [...] Now stay, O heauy case, O sowre sweet woe alas, woe alas, a- las, O [...] griefe, O ioy, why striue you so? Can griefes and ioyes, ij. at once, [...] in one poore hart consent? Then sigh and sing, reioyce, lament, ij. [...] lament, Aye me, Aye me, O passions strange and vi-olent, Was neuer [Page] [...] poore wretch so sore tormen- ted, Nor ioy, nor griefe, can make my hart con- tented, [...] Was neuer poore wretch so sore tormen- ted, Nor ioy, nor griefe can [...] make my hart conten- ted, For while with ioy I looke on hye, Downe, [...] downe I fall with griefe and dye. ij. downe I fall, [...] Downe, downe I fall, ij. For while vvith ioy I looke on hye, [...] Downe, dovvne I fall ij. Downe, downe I fall, [...] with griefe and dye.

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary, With noyse of these my [...] shrikes & cryes that fill the aire, ij. & cryes that fill the [...] ayre, She onely who should make me mery heares not my prayer, That I a- las, [...] that I alas, alas, misfortunes sonne and heyre, that I alas, alas, mis- fortunes [...] son & heyre, Hope in none other hope but in dis- paire, O vnkind, [...] ij. O, vnkinde, and cruell, Then dye I will to ease thee, ij. [...] Yet if I dye, the world will thee controule, Loe here lyes one, [...] ij. (Alas poore soule) A true loues Martyr. A [...] Martyr. A true loues Martyr.

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[Page] ALTVS. THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Ʋoyces.

Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609.

LONDON: Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) often wants the fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBYE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares. XXXI

Stay Coridon thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

3 voices

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I.

[...] COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing, Now figh and [...] groan, Dead is my loue, my hope, my ioy, my spring, dead, dead & gone, dead is my loue, my [...] hope, my ioy, my spring, ij. O she that was your summers Queen your [...] dayes delight, is gone and will no more be seen, O cruell spight, Break all your Pipes that [...] wont to sound, break all your Pipes that wont to sound, that wont to sound with pleasant [...] cheere, And east your selues vp- on the ground to waile my deere, to waile my deere, [...] Come shepheard swaynes, Come Nimphs and all a roe, Come Nymphs, Come [...] nymphs & all a roe, ij. to help me cry, Dead is my loue, ij. my loue, dead [...] is my loue, ij. my loue, And seeing she is so, ij. loe now I die. ij.

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II.

[...] Lourish ye hillockes set with fragrant flow- ers, ij. [...] So gra- ced with her de-ity, whose eyes bedew you with, ij. [...] their pearled showers, whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers [...] bewayling loues im-pi- ety. Happy yee are, be prodigall disposed, disdaine not [...] loues lamenting, ij. Let me but kisse those steps where [...] she repo- sed, to ease my harts tormenting, to ease my harts tormen- ting, [...] then while she flyes me, here I lye and languish, sounding my sorrowes, ij. [...] tun'd in notes of anguish. tun'd in notes of anguish. in notes of an- guish.

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III.

[...] AH, cruell Amarillis, ij. since thou takst delight [...] to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie, ij. dolefull [...] dit- tie, To triumph, ij. ij. ij. ij. still with- out [...] remorse or pittie, Hoath this life, Death must my sorrowes right, ij. [...] And least vaine hope, ij. my miseries renue, Come quickly [...] death, ij. reaue me of breath, (Ah) cruell Amarillis, ij. [...] ij. Cruell Amarillis, ij. Ama- rillis, [...] ij. cruell a-dew.

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IIII.

[...] SO light is loue in matchles beautie shi- ning, So light is loue, ij. in match- les [...] beautie shining, When she reuisits Cypris hallowed bowers, Two feeble doues harnest [...] in silken twi- ning, ij. harnest in silken [...] twi- ning, in silken twining, can draw her Chariot midst the Paphian flowers, ij. [...] the Paphian flowers, Lightnes to loue how ill it [...] fit- teth? Light- nesse to loue, ij. how ill it fitteth? light- nesse to [...] loue, ij. ij. how ill it fitteth? so heauie on my hart, O on my hart [...] she fitteth. Lightnes to loue, ij. how ill it fit- teth? light- nes to [...] loue, how ill it fit- teth? lightnesse to loue, light- nes to loue how ill it fit- teth? [...] so hea- uy on my hart she fitteth.

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V.

[...] AS faire as morne, as fresh as May, A pretty grace in saying nay, [...] ij. Smil'st thou sweet heart? ij. then sing and say, Ta na na [...] no, ij Ta na na, &c. But(O) ij. But(O)that [...] loue in-chan-ting eye, Loe here my doubtfull doome I try, But(O) ij. But(O)that [...] loue in-chan- ting eye, Loe here my doubtfull doome I try, ij. Tell [...] me my sweet, liue I or dye? ij. liue I or dye? Tell me my [...] sweet, my sweet, Liue I or dye? Tell me my sweet, my sweet, liue I or dye? ij. [...] ij. liue I or dye? She smiles, ij. [...] Fa la la, &c. Ah, she frownes, Aye me, Aye me I dye, I dye.

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VI.

[...] OWhat shall I doe, or whether shall I turne me? Shall I make vn- to [...] her eyes? ij. Ono they 'l burn me, Shall I seale vp my eies & speak my [...] part? then in a floud of tears, ij. I drown my hart, for tears being stopt will [...] swel, will swel, will [...] swell for scope, though they o'reflow, loue, life, loue, life, and hope, By beauties eye Ile [...] chuse to dye. Ile chuse to dye. At thy feet I fall faire. Creature, rich in beau- tie, [...] And for pitty call, O kill not loue and duty, O kill not loue and du, ty, ij. [...] ij, ij, Let thy smooth tongue fanne on my sence [...] thy breath, to stay thine eies from burning me to death. But if mer-ty be ex- i- led [...] from a thing so faire compi- led, ij. [...] then pa-ti- ent- ly by thee Ile dye.

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VII.

[...] ILiue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath; ij. I thirst, & [...] drinke; I drinke and thirst againe; I thirst and drink; I drink and thirst againe; I sleep & [...] yet I dream I am a-wake; I hope for that I haue; I haue and want, I sing & sigh; I [...] loue and hate at once, I sing & sigh, I loue & hate at once. O tell me restlesse [...] soule, O tell me restlesse Soule, O tell me restlesse Soule, What vncouth [...] iarre doth cause such want in store? doth cause such want in store? ij in [...] peace such warre? Doth cause such want in store, in peace such warre?

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VIII.

[...] THere is a iewell, there is a iew- ell which no Indian mines can [...] buy, no Chimick art can counterfait, It makes men rich in greatest pouertie, ij. [...] ij. ij. Makes water wine; turnes [...] wooden cups to gould. ij. ij. ij. turnes wooden cups to [...] gould, The homely whi- stle, ij. the whistle, to sweet musicks [...] straine, the homely whi- stle, ij. to sweet musicks straine, the homely [...] whi- stle, ij. to sweet musicks straine, Seldome it comes; to few from [...] heauen sent, ij. seldome it comes, ij. ij. to [...] few from heauen sent, That much in little all in naught, ij. [...] ij. ij. all in naught CONTENT.

Here endeth the songs of 3. parts.

Of 4. voc.

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IX.

[...] WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying, She grieued, she [...] grieued, she grieued then for her vnkinde denying, for her vn- kinde deny- ing, [...] Oft sighing, oft sighing, ij. sore and with a hart vnfayned, I dye, I [...] dye, I dye, ij. I dye, I dye, I dye, ij. I dye, I dye [...] she thus complayn'd, Whom when Amintas spyed, then both for ioy out cryed, I [...] loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye, I loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye; And [...] I A- min- tas till I dye.

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X.

[...] HAp- py streames whose trembling fall, [...] ij. with still murmure soft- ly [...] glyding, Hap- py Birds whose chirping call, ij. with sweet [...] melody delighting, Hath mou'd her flin-tie and relentlesse hart, ij. [...] to listen to your harmony, And sit se- curely [...] in these Downes a part, inchan- ted, inchan- ted [...] with your me- lody, ij. your melody, [...] Sing on and carroll forth your glee, sing on, sing on, ij. [Page] [...] She graunts you leaue her rayes to see, She graunts you leaue, ij. [...] ij. her rayes to see, Happy were I, ij. [...] were I, could loue but so de- light her, But aye a- las, alas, alas my [...] loue doth still despight her. But aye alas my loue doth still despight her.

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XI.

[...] CHange me O heauens, in- to the Ruby stone, change me, [...] change me ò heauens, ij. the ruby stone, That on my Loues faire [...] locks, ij. doth hang in gold, Yet leaue me speech to her to [...] make my moan, yet leaue me speach to her to make my moan, to make my moan, ij. [...] ij. yet leaue me speech to her to make my moan, to make my moan, ij. [...] to her to make my moan, And giue me eies her beauties to behold, her beauties [...] to behold, ij. & her beauties to behold, my flesh a stone, or [...] if you wil not make my flesh a stone, make her hard hart seem flesh, that now seems [...] none. make her, ij. hard hart seem flesh, ij. that now seems none. ij.

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XII.

[...] LOue not me for comely grace, for my plea- sing eye or face; Nor for any [...] outward part, no, nor for my constant heart: For those may faile, ij. those may [...] faile, ij. for those may faile or turne to ill, So thou and I shall se- uer: Keepe [...] therfore a true wo- mans eye, a womans eye, keepe therefore a true [...] womans eye, a womans eye, keepe therefore a true wo- mans eye, ij. [...] And loue me still, but know not why; And loue me still, but know [...] not why, And loue me still but know not why, ij. ij. [...] not why, So hast thou the same reason still, ij. [...] to dote, to dote vp-on me euer. to dote vp- on me e- uer.

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XIII.

[...] FLye not so swift my deere, so, [...] swift my deere, ij. behold me [...] dying, If not a smi- ling glance, a [...] smi- ling glance, If not a smi- ling [...] glance for all my cry- ing, Yet kill me with thy frownes: [...] ij. The Satyres o're the lawnes full nimbly daun- cing, [...] the Satyres o're the lawnes full nimbly daun- cing, [...] Friske it apace, to view thy beauties glan- cing, Thy beauties glancing; ij. [Page] [...] See how they coast the downes, ij. they coast the [...] downes, See how they coast the downes, Fayne wouldst thou turne and yeeld them [...] their delight, and yeeld them their delight, ij. faine wouldst thou [...] turne, and yeeld them their de- light, ij. ij. [...] them their de- light, but that thou fearst least [...] I should steale a sight. least I should steale a sight.

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XIIII.

[...] I Loue alas, alas, yet am not loued, ij. alas, alas, yet am not [...] lo- ued, For cruell she, to pitty, ij. ij. ij. ij. [...] is not mo- ued: My constant loue with scorne she ill rewardeth, onely my sighs a [...] little she re-gardeth, onely my sighs a lit-tle little shee regar- deth, Yet [...] more and more, ij. yet more and more the quenchlesse fire increaseth, in- creaseth, [...] which to my greater torment neuer ceaseth which to my greater torment [...] neuer ceaseth. yet more and more, ij. ij. yet more and [...] more the quenchlesse fire increa- seth, which to my greater torment [...] ne-uer cea- seth.

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XV.

[...] AS matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire Leo-nil- la, [...] As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire Le- o-nilla, faire Le-o-nil-la, [...] faire Leo-nilla, So thy sowre-sweet loues: ij. For when young A- cons [...] eye thy proud hart tames, for when young Acons eye thy proud hart [...] tames, ij. Thou dyest in him, and liuest in my [...] flames. Thou dyest in him, and liuest in my flames. For when young Acons eye thy [...] proud hart tames, for when young Acons eye, for when young Acons eye thy [...] proud hart tames, Thou dy'st in him, and li- uest in my flames. [...] thou dyest in him, and liu'st in my flames and li- uest in my flames.

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XVI.

[...] HAppy, oh happy he, who not affect- ing The end- lesse [...] toyles, attending worldly cares, attending worldly cares, at- ten- ding [...] worldly cares, ij. ij. With [...] minde repos'd all dis- contents re- iect- ing; with minde repos'd all discontents [...] re- iect- ing; In silent peace, ij. his way to heauen prepares: In silent [...] peace, to heauen, in silent peace his way to heauen prepares, Deeming his [...] life a Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his wea- ry Pil- gri- mage. [...] Deeming his life a Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his wea- ry [...] Pil-grimage. ij. Dee: wea- ry Pilgrimage.

Here endeth the Songs of 4. parts.

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XVII. First Part.

[...] SWeet hony sucking Bees, ij. why doe you still, ij. [...] ij. surfet on Roses, Pincks and Violets? As if the choysest Nectar [...] lay in them, wherwith you store, your curious Cabinets: Ah, make your flight, [...] to Melisuauiaes lips, Ah, make your flight, there may you [...] reuell, ij. there, there may you reuell, there may you reuell, ij. [...] in Ambrosian cheere, Where smi- ling Ro- ses and sweet [...] Lillies sit, keeping their Spring-tide graces, keeping their Spring-tide graces, ij. [...] Spring-tide graces, keeping their Spring-tide graces, ij. [...] all the yeare. keeping their Spring-tide graces all the yeare.

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XVIII. Second part.

[...] YEt Sweet take heed, ij. all sweets are hard to get, ij. [...] sting not her soft lippes, ij. Oh beware of that, ij. [...] Oh beware of that, For if one flaming dart come from her eye, ij. was neuer [...] dart so sharp, Ah, ah then you dye, ah then you dye, you dye, For if one fla- ming [...] dart come from her eye, ij. ij. was neuer dart so sharp, [...] Ah then you dye, you dye, ij. Ah then you dye, was neuer [...] dart so sharp, ij. Ah then you dye, you dye, Ah then you dye, [...] you dye, Ah then you dye. ij. Ah then you dye. ij. ij.

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XIX.

[...] ALl plea- sure is of this condition, It pricks men forward to fru-i-ti-on, [...] All pleasure is of this condi-tion, It pricks men forward to fru-i-ti-on, [...] ij. But if enioy'd then like the hum- ming Bee, then [...] like the hum- ming Bee, ij. ij. ij. [...] ij. The honie being shed away doth flee, away doth [...] flee, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart, But leaues a sting that [...] wounds the inward hart, but leaues a sting that wounds, ij. the hart, a sting that [...] wounds the inward hart, With gnawing grief, & neuer ending smart. ij. & [...] with gnawing grief, & neuer ending smart. with gnawing grief, ij. & neuer ending smart.

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XX.

[...] OFt haue I vow'd how dearely I did loue thee, how deerely I did [...] loue thee, ij. And oft obseru'd thee with all willing du- tie, ij. [...] Sighs I haue sent stil hoping to remoue thee, stil hoping, stil [...] ho-ping to re- moue thee, ij. Millions of tears, ij. I tendred [...] to thy beautie, millions of teares, I tendred to thy beautie, Yet thou of sighs & silly [...] tears regardles, yet thou of sighs yet thou of sighs, and silly tears regardles, suffrest [...] my fee- ble hart to pine with an- guish, Whilst all my barren [...] hopes returne reward- lesse, My better dayes do wast, and I doe languish. ij. [...] My better dayes do wast, & I do languish, do languish,

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XXI. First part.

[...] DOwne in a valley, ij. ij. as A-lezis trips, downe in a [...] valley, ij. ij. as Alexis trips, Daphne sat sweetly sleeping, ij. [...] Soone as the wanton toucht her ruddy lips, she nicely fals a weeping, ij. [...] a wee- ping, The wag full softly lifts her, And too and fro he sifts her, ij. [...] But when nor sighs, nor kisses mou'd her pitty, nor sighs could moue her [...] pitty, nor teares could moue her pitty, ij. With plaints he [...] warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournfull ditty. But when nor sighs nor kisses mou'd [...] her pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor tears could moue her pitty, ij. [...] with plaints he warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournful ditty.

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XXII. Second part.

[...] HArd Destinies are Loue and Beau- tie parted? [...] Fayre Daphne so disdainfull? disdainfull? Cupid thy [...] shafts are too vniust- ly darted, Cupid thy shafts are too [...] vniust- ly darted, Fond Loue thy wounds be painefull, ij. [...] But sith my louely Iew- ell is prou'd so coy and cruell, Ile liue and [...] fro- licke in her beauties treasure, Ile liue and fro- licke [...] in her beauties treasure, But languish, faint, and dye in her displeasure. [...] But languish, faint and dye, ij. But languish faint and dye in [Page] [...] her dis- plea- sure. Ile liue and fro- licke, in her beauties [...] treasure, Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties treasure, [...] But languish, faint and dye, in her displeasure, But languish, faint and dye, ij. [...] But languish faint and dye in her dis- plea- sure.

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XXIII.

[...] WEepe, weepe; mine eyes my hart can take no rest, weepe, weepe my [...] hart, mine eyes shall ne're be blest, Weepe eyes, weepe hart, and both this ac- cent [...] cry, A thousand deaths I dye, ij. A thousand thousand deaths, I dye, I [...] dye, a thousand thousand deaths I dye. ij. a thousand Aye me, [...] ah, ah, cruell Fortune, Aye me, Aye me, Now Leander to dye I feare [...] not, Death doe thy worst I care not, ij. I care not, [...] I hope when I am dead in E-li-zian plaine, ij. ij. To [...] meet, and there with ioy, and there with ioy, ij. ij. ij. [...] weele loue againe.

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XXIIII.

[...] THere where I saw her louely beautie painted, ij. louely beautie, [...] there wher I saw her louely beauty painted, Wher Venus-like my sacred goddesse shineth, [...] ij. my There with precel- lent obiect mine eyes fainted, ij. [...] ij. That faire but fatall star, my dole deuineth, my [...] dole de-ui- neth. As soone as morning in her light, as morning in her light appeareth. [...] Her sweet salute my mind or'e clouded cleareth, or'e clou- ded clea- reth, whē [...] night again the daies delight bereaueth, My harts true sa- crifice she quicke re- cei- ueth, [...] she quick re- ceiueth, she craftily forsakes me, to tedious day to lothsom night, [...] be-takes me. ij. ij.

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XXV.

[...] YEe that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] And dwell in Mu- sicks sweetest Ayres, [...] Whose eyes are quicke, Whose eares are dainty, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose [...] eares are daintie, are dain- tie, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose eares are [...] dainty, are dain- ty, Whose eyes are quicke, whose eares are [...] dainty, Not clogd with earth or world- ly cares, ij. [...] with worldly cares, Come sing this song, made in Amphions praise, Who now [...] is dead, Who now is dead, ij. yet you his Fame can raise. [Page] [...] Call him againe, let him not dye, Place him in fayrest memory, ij. [...] And let him triumph ouer death, And let him triumph ouer death, O, O sweetly [...] sung, his liuing wish attend yee, ij. These were his words, the [...] mirth of heauen, God send yee. ij.

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XXVI.

[...] A Silly Sil-uan, kissing heauen-borne fire, scorched his lips for his so [...] fond desire: I not so fond, but gaz'd, And all my hart straight into flames was [...] turned: And all my hart straight, ij. into flames was turned, ij. [...] And all my hart straight into flames was turned ij. ij. [...] ij. was turned. The Siluan iustly suffred for his kisse, His fire was [...] stolne, and stolne things goe amisse, ij. But I alas vniustly, ij. [...] but I alas vn- iustly, ij. for to haue her her heauenly fire the [...] Gods and graces gaue her, the Gods and graces gaue her. ij. ij. [...] the Gods and graces gaue her.

Here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

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XXVII.

[...] O Wretched man, O wretched man, why lou'st thou earthly [...] life? Which naught enioyes but cares and end- lesse trouble? What plea- sure [...] here but breeds a world of griefe? What pleasure here but breeds a world of [...] griefe? ij. a world of griefe? What howers ease that [...] anguish doth not double? ij. No earthly [...] ioyes but haue their discontents, but haue their discon-tents, ij. ij. [...] Then loath that life, ij. ij. which causeth such laments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thoughts, there least my eye is striking, ij. [...] Where least I come, there most my hart abi- deth; [...] Where most I loue, I neuer shew my li- king, where most I loue, I [...] neuer shew my liking, From what my minde doth hold, my body sly- deth, my [...] bo-dy sly- deth, I carelesse seeme where most my care dependeth, ij. [...] where most my soule attendeth. ij. where [...] most my soule attendeth. ij. where most my soule, my soule attendeth.

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vn-to my selfe I lan-guish, I lan- guish Dis- spightfull [...] thus vnto my selfe I lan- guish, And in disdaine my selfe from ioy I [...] banish; And in disdaine, These secret thoughts envvraps me so in anguish, That life I [...] hope will soone from body vanish, And to some rest will quickly be conuay- ed, [...] ij. And to some rest will quickly be conuay- ed, [...] ij. will quickly be conuayed, That on no ioy while so I [...] liu'd hath stay- ed. And to some rest vvill quickly be conuayed, ij. [...] And to some rest vvill quick- ly be conuayed, That on no ioy while [...] so I liu'd hath stay- ed. While so I liu'd hath stayed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot sighs, nor teares, nor ought else moue thee, to pitty me? to [...] pit- ty, pitty me, to pitty me? Who more then life doe loue thee, then life doe loue thee, [...] O, O cruell fates, ij. See now away shee's flying, ij. [...] ij. And flye she will alas, and leaue me dying, alas, alas, a- las, and [...] leaue me dying, Farewell, ij. farewell most faire, farewell, ij. yet more disdainefull, Was [...] neuer griefe, ij. like mine, nor death more painfull, O, O cruell fates, ij. [...] See now away she's flying, ij. ij. And flye she will, alas, and [...] leaue me dying, alas, alas, a- las & leaue me dying, Farewel, ij. ij. most faire, fare- wel, [...] ij. yet more disdainful, was neuer griefe, ij. like mine, nor death more painefull.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares, Draw on sweet night, ij. [...] best friend vnto those cares, That doe a- rise, arise from painfull melancholy, My [...] life so ill through want of comfort fares, ij. That vnto thee I [...] consecrate it wholy, ij. ij. Sweet night [...] draw on, ij. ij. ij. ij. ij. my griefes when they [...] be told To shades & darknes, find some ease from pai- ning, ij. [...] And while thou all in silence dost en- fold, ij. [...] I then shall haue best time for my complai-ning. for my complayning. ij. [...] for my complai- ning. ij.

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XXXII.

[...] STAY Coridon thou swaine, talke not [...] so soone of dying, of dy- ing, [...] ij. [...] What though thy hart be slaine? be slaine? What though thy hart, ij. [...] be slaine? ij. What if thy loue be flying? She threatens thee [...] but dares not strike, ij. But dares not strike, [...] Thy Nimph is light, is light, Thy Nimph is light and [...] shadow like, ij. [...] and sha- dow like, Thy Nimph is light and shadow like, For if thou [Page] [...] follow her, ij. sheele flye, sheele flye from thee, [...] For if thou follow her, ij. sheele flye from [...] thee, But if thou flye from her sheele fol- low thee. sheele [...] follow thee. But if thou flye from her sheele follow thee, ij. [...] ij. For if thou follow her, ij. sheele flye, [...] sheele flye from thee, For if thou follow her, ij. sheele [...] flye from thee, But if thou flye from her, sheele [...] fol- low thee. sheele follow thee. But if thou flye [...] from her, sheele follow thee. ij. sheele follow thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOftly, O softly: Now powre out [...] teares apace, ij. [...] Now powre out teares apace, Now [...] stay, O heauy case, O griefe, O ioy, why striue you so? Can paynes, and [...] ioyes, can paynes and ioyes in one poore hart consent? Then sigh [...] Then sigh and sing, reioyce, lament, ij. lament, Aye me, [...] Aye me, ij. O passions strange and vi- o- lent, Was neuer wretch [...] so sore tormented, Nor ioy, nor griefe, can make my hart contented, ij. [Page] [...] conten- ted, For while with ioy I looke on [...] hye, Downe, downe I fall with griefe and dye. ij. Downe, [...] downe I fall, ij. ij. Downe, dovvne I fall. For while vvith ioy I [...] looke on hye, ij. Downe, downe I [...] fall, for while with ioy I looke on hye I fall, and dye.

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils and val- lies weary, With noyse of [...] these my shrikes and cryes that fill the aire, ij. of with [...] cryes that fill the ayre, She onely who should make me mery, That I a-las, that [...] I alas, misfortunes sonne and heyre, ij. that I a-las, alas, mis- fortunes [...] sonne and heyre, Hope in none o- ther hope but in dispaire, O vnkind, [...] O vn- kinde, ij. ij. If thus my death may please [...] thee, Then dye I will to ease thee, ij. Yet if I dye, the world will [...] thee controule, And write vpon my tombe, O sweet departure, Loe here lyes one, ij. [...] ij. (Alas poore soule) A true loues Martyr. ij. ij.

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Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609.

LONDON: Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) often wants the fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBYE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares. XXXI

Stay Coridon thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

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XVII. First Part.

[...] SWeet hony sucking Bees, ij. why doe you still, ij. [...] ij. surfet on Roses, Pincks and Vi- olets? As if the choysest Nec- ctar [...] lay in them, wherewith you store your curious Cabinets: Ah, [...] make your flight, to Melisuaniaes lips, Ah make your flight [...] to Melisuaniaes lips, there may you reuell, there may you reuell in Ambrosian [...] cheere, Where smi- ling Ro- ses and sweet Lillies sit, there may you [...] reuell keeping their Spring-tide graces, ij. keeping their [...] Spring-tide graces all the yeere. keeping their Spring-tide graces all the [...] yeere. keeping their Spring-tide, Spring-tide graces all the yeere.

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XVIII. Second part.

[...] YEt Sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get, sting not [...] sting not her soft lips, Oh beware of that, ij. ij. Oh be- ware, [...] Oh beware of that, ij. For if one fla- ming dart come [...] from her eye, ij. ij. was neuer dart so sharp, Ah then you dye. then you [...] dye. ij. ij. Ah then you dye. For if one fla- ming dart [...] come from her eye, ij. ij. was neuer dart so sharpe, Ah then you [...] dye. then you dye, then you dye. Ah then you dye. then you dye. was neuer [...] dart so sharpe, Ah then you dye. ij. you dye. Ah then you dye. ij. [...] ij. you dye, Ah then you dye. you dye. Ah then you dye.

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XIX.

[...] ALl plea- sure is of this condi- ti- on, It pricks men [...] forward to fru-i- ti-on, ij. It [...] pricks men forward to fru-i- ti-on, But if enioy'd then like the humming Bee, then [...] like the hum- ming Bee, ij. ij. [...] The honie being shed away doth flee, a- way [...] doth flee, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart, But leaues a [...] sting that wounds, ij. ij. [...] With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart. ij. [...] With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart.

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XX.

[...] OFt haue I vow'd, how deerely I did loue thee, how deerely I did [...] loue thee, ij. And oft obseru'd thee with all willing dutie, Sighs I haue [...] sent, still hoping, still hoping to remoue thee, still hoping, still hoping to remoue thee, [...] Millions of teares, ij. I tendred to thy beautie, Millions of teares I tendred [...] to thy beautie, Yet thou of sighs and silly teares re-gardlesse, yet thou of [...] sighs and sil- ly teares re-gard- lesse, suffrest my feeble hart, my fee-ble hart to [...] pine with anguish, with an- guish, suffrest my fee-ble hart to pine with anguish, [...] Whilst all my barren hopes re- turne re- ward- lesse, My better [...] dayes doe wast, and I doe languish. my better dayes doe wast and I doe [...] languish. my bet- ter dayes doe wast and I doe languish.

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XXI.

[...] DOwne in a valley, ij. ij. as Alex- is trips, [...] Daphne sat sweetly sleeping, ij. slee- ping, Soone as the wanton [...] toucht her ruddy lips, she nicely fals a weeping, ij. a wee- ping, [...] And too and fro he sifts her, The wag full softly lifts her, And too and fro he sifts her, [...] But when nor sighs, (ah) nor kisses mou'd her pit- ty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, [...] nor tears could moue her pitty, ij. ij. With plaints he warbles [...] forth, he warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournfull ditty. But when nor sighs nor kisses [...] mou'd her pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor tears could moue her pitty, ij. [...] with plaints he warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournful dit- ty.

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XXII.

[...] HArd Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Fayre. [...] Daphne so disdaine- full, Cupid thy shafts [...] are too vn- iustly darted, Fond Loue thy [...] wounds be painefull, ij. But sith my louely Iew- ell [...] is prou'd so coy and cruell, Ile liue and fro- licke in her [...] beauties trea- sure, Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties [...] trea- sure, But lan- guish, But languish, faint and dye, ij. [...] in her dis-pleasure. But languish faint and dye, ij. [Page] [...] in her dis-plea- sure. Ile liue and fro- licke in her [...] beauties treasure, Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties [...] treasure, But languish, faint and dye, ij. ij. [...] But languish, faint and dye, in her dis- plea- sure.

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XXIII.

[...] WEepe, weepe, weepe mine eyes, my hart can take no rest, Weep, weep, [...] weepe my hart, mine eyes shall nere be blest, Weepe eyes, weepe hart, and both this [...] accent cry, A thousand deaths I dye, I dye, A thousand deaths [...] I dye, ij. Aye me, Aye me, Now Le-ander to dye. I [...] feare not, Death doe thy worst I care not, ij. I [...] care not, I hope, I hope when I am dead in E-lizian plaine, ij. in E-li-zian [...] plaine To meete, and there with ioy, ij. ij. with [...] ioy weele loue againe.

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XXIIII.

[...] THere where I saw her louely beautie painted, ij. [...] her louely beautie painted, Where Venus-like my sacred Goddesse [...] shineth, There with precel- lent obiect mine eyes fain- ted, there [...] with precellent obiect mine eyes fain-ted, That faire but fatall star, ij. my [...] dole deuineth, As soone as morning in her light, ij. appea-reth, [...] Her sweet salute my minde or'eclouded cleareth, When night againe the dayes de- light [...] be-reaueth, My harts true sacrifice, ij, But night and [...] day shee craf-ti-ly forsakes me, To te- dious day, ij. to [...] loathsome night betakes me. to tedious day to loathsome night betakes me.

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XXV.

[...] YEe that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] Yee that doe liue in pleasures [...] plen- ty, And dwell in Mu- sickes sweetest Ayres, and dwell, and [...] dwell in Mu- sickes sweetest Ayres, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose [...] eares are dainty, whose eares are dainty, are dain- ty, Whose [...] eyes are quicke, Whose eares are dainty, Not clogd with earth, or [...] world- ly cares, ij. Come sing this song, made [...] in Amphions praise, Who now is dead, yet you his Fame can raise, [Page] [...] Call him againe, let him not dye, But liue in Musicks sweetest breath, Place him in [...] memory, Place him in fairest memory, And let him triumph ouer death, And [...] let him tri- umph ouer death: O sweetly sung, his liuing wish attend [...] yee, These were his words, the mirth of heauen God send yee. ij.

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XXVI.

[...] A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire, scorched his lips for his so [...] fond desire: I not so fond, but gaz'd whilst such fire burned, And all my hart, & [...] all my hart straight into flames was tur- ned, straight into flames was tur- ned. [...] And all my hart straight into flames was turned. ij. [...] ij. & all my hart, & all my hart straight, straight into flames was [...] turn'd. ij. turned. The Siluan iustly suffred for his kisse, His fire was stolne, & [...] stolne things goe amisse, But I alas vniust- ly, ij. ij. [...] for to haue her her heauenly fire the Gods and graces gaue her, the Gods & [...] graces gaue her. ij. ij.

Here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

6 voices

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XXVII.

[...] O Wretched man, ij. O wretched man, why [...] lou'st thou earthly life? Which naught enioyes but cares and endlesse trouble? [...] What pleasure here but breeds a world of griefe? What pleasure here but breeds [...] a world of griefe? What howers ease that anguish doth not double? [...] but haue their discontents, but haue their discontents, Then loath that [...] life, which causeth such laments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thought, there least my eye is stri- king, there [...] least my eye is striking; Where least I come, there most my hart a- bideth, my [...] hart abideth, ij. Where most I loue, I neuer shew my li- king; [...] From what my minde doth hold, my body slydeth, my body sly- deth; I [...] carelesse seeme, ij. I carelesse seeme where most my care dependeth, [...] A coy regard, where most my soule at- tendeth. ij. where [...] most my soule at- tendeth. ij. where most my soule attendeth.

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe I lan-guish, ij. And [...] in disdain my selfe from ioy I banish; These secret thoughts inwraps me so in anguish, in [...] anguish, That life I hope wil soone from body va- nish, And to some rest wil quickly [...] be conuayed, ij. will quickly be conuay- ed, and [...] to some rest will quickly be conuay'd, and to some rest will quickly be con- uayed, [...] That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stay-ed. And to some rest will [...] quickly be conuayed, will quickly be con-uay- ed, and to some rest [...] will quickly be conuay'd, will quickly be con- uayed, That on no ioy while [...] so I liu'd hath stayed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot: O pitty, pitty me, to pit- ty me, Who more then life, then [...] life doth loue thee, O, O, cruell fates, ij. See now away shee's flying. [...] ij. And flye she will, ij. Alas, a- las, & leaue [...] me dying, Farewell, farewell, most faire, farewell, farewell, Was ne-uer griefe like mine, [...] nor death so painefull, O, O, cruell fates, ij. See now away shee's flying, [...] ij. And flye shee will and leaue me dying, and flye she [...] will alas, a- las, ij. and leaue me dy- ing, Farewell, farewell, fare- well [...] most faire, farewell, farewell, yet more disdainefull, Was neuer griefe like mine, [...] nor death more painefull.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night, ij. best friend vn-to those cares, That do [...] a- rise from painfull melancholy, from painfull melancholy. ij. My [...] life so ill through want of comfort fares, That vn-to thee, ij. I consecrate it [...] wholy, That vnto thee to thee I consecrate it wholy, Sweet night draw on, ij. [...] ij. ij. my griefes when they be told [...] To shades & darknes, find some ease from pai- ning, And while thou all in [...] silence dost en- fold, ij. ij. [...] I then shall haue best time for my complaining. [...] ij. I then shall haue best time for my complayning.

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XXXII

[...] STAY Coridon thou swaine, talke [...] not so soone of dying, What though thy [...] hart be slaine? ij. be [...] slaine? What though thy loue, ij. be fly- ing? [...] Shee threatens thee but dares not strike, ij. Thy [...] Nimph is light, and shadow like, and shadow like, ij. [...] ij. thy [...] Nimph is light and shadow like, ij. [Page] [...] For if thou follow her, ij. sheele flye from thee, from thee, [...] But if thou flye from her, ij. sheele fol- low [...] thee. But if thou flye from her sheele fol- low [...] thee, sheele follow thee. ij. ij. For if thou follow [...] ij. sheele flye from thee, ij. [...] sheele flye from thee, But if thou flye from [...] her, sheele fol- low thee sheele follow thee. ij. sheele [...] follow thee. ij. sheele follow thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOftly, softly O softly drop my [...] eyes, least you be dry, and make my hart [...] with griefe, with griefe to melt and dye, [...] Now powre out teares apace, ij. ij. [...] Now stay, O heauy case, O sowre sweet, woe alas, woe a- las, alas, alas, O [...] griefe, O ioy, why striue you so? Can paynes, and ioyes, ij. and [...] ioyes in one poore hart consent? Then sigh, Then sigh and sing, re- ioyce, [...] lament, ij. Aye me, ij. Aye me, O passions [Page] [...] strange and vi-o-lent, Was neuer poore wretch so sore tormen- ted, ij. [...] Nor ioy, nor griefe, can make my hart conten- ted, ij. [...] Downe, downe I fall, For while vvith [...] ioy I looke on hye, ij. ij. [...] Downe, downe I fall, ij. ij. for while with ioy I looke on hye, [...] Downe, downe I fall. ij. Downe, dovvne I fall with griefe and dye.

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary, With noyse of these my [...] shrikes and cryes that fill the aire, ij. with She [...] onely who should make me mery, heares not my praier, That I a- las, alas, mis- fortunes [...] spmme and heyre, ij. Hope in none other [...] hope but in dispaire, O vnkinde, and cruell, O vn- kinde, ij. ij. [...] ij. and cru- ell, If thus my death may please thee, Then will I dye to [...] ease thee, Yet if I dye, the world will thee controule, And write vpon my tombe, O [...] sweet departure, Loe here lyes one, ij. ij. (A- las poore soule) [...] A true loues Martyr. ij. A true loues Martyr.

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[Page] [Page] TENOR. THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Ʋoyces.

Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609.

LONDON: Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) often wants the fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBYE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares. XXXI

Stay Coriden thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

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IX.

[...] WHen Cloris heard of her Amin-tas dy- ing, She [...] grreued, she grieued then for her vnkinde denying, ij. [...] Oft sighing, oft sighing, ij. sore and with a hart [...] vnfay-ned, I dye, I dye, I dye, I dye, ij. I dye, I [...] dye, I dye she thus complayned, Whom when Amintas spyed, then both for [...] ioy out cryed, I loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye, ij. [...] And I A- min- tas till I dye.

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X.

[...] HAppy streames whose trembling fall, ij. [...] with still murmure soft- ly [...] gly- ding, Happy Birds whose chirping call, ij. with sweet [...] melody delight- ing, Hath mou'd her flin-tie and relentlesse hart [...] and re- lentlesse hart to li- sten to your harmo- ny, in- chan- ted [...] with, ij. your melody, inchan- ted [...] with your me- lody, Sing on and carroll forth your glee, sing on, [...] ij. She graunts you leaue her rayes to see, her rayes to [Page] [...] see, She graunts you leaue her rayes to see, ij. [...] Happy were I, were I, But aye alas my loue [...] doth still despight her. But aye alas, alas my loue doth still despight her, Aye a- las [...] my loue doth still de- spight her.

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XI.

[...] CHange me O heauens, change me, change me ò heauens, change me ò [...] heauens, in-to the Ru-by stone, That on my Loue, fair locks doth hang in gold, [...] that on my Loues fair locks doth hang, ij. doth hang in gold, Yet [...] leaue me speech to her to make my moan, ij. make my moan, to make my [...] moan, my moan, yet leaue me speach to her to make my moan, ij. ij. ij. [...] And giue me eies her beauties to behold, & giue me eies, & giue me eies her [...] beauties to behold, ij. to behold, or if you wil not make, ij. my [...] flesh a stone, ij. ij. or make her hard hart seem flesh, make [...] her hard hart seem flesh that now seems none. ij ij.

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XII.

[...] LOue not me for comely grace, for my pleasing eye or face; Nor for any [...] outward part, no, nor for my constant heart. For those may faile, ij. those may faile, [...] ij. for those may faile or turne to ill, So thou and I shall seuer: Keepe therfore a [...] true wo-mans eye, a true wo- mans eye, keep therefore a true womans [...] eye, keepe therefore a true womans eye, And loue me still, but [...] know not why; ij. And loue me still, but know not why, And loue me [...] still but know not why, ij. but know not why, ij. & [...] So hast thou the same reason still, ij. to [...] dote, to dote vpon me euer. ij. to dote vp- on me e- uer.

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XIII.

[...] FLye not so swift my deere, be- hold [...] me dying, If not a smi- ling [...] glance, If not a smi- ling glance for all my [...] crying, for all my crying, Yet kill me with thy frownes: ij. thy [...] frownes: The Sa-tyres o're the lawnes full nimbly daun- cing, [...] Friske it a- pace, to view thy beauties glan- cing, Thy beauties [...] glan- cing; to view thy beauties glancing; See how they coast the downes, ij. [...] ij. the downes, Fayne wouldst thou turne and yeeld them [Page] [...] their delight, ij. faine wouldst thou turne, and [...] yeelde them their delight, ij. ij. [...] but that thou fearst least I should [...] steale a sight. but that thou fearst least I should steale a sight.

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XIIII.

[...] I Loue alas, a- las, yet am not loued, I loue alas, alas, yet am not [...] loued, For cru-ell she, ij. to pitty, ij. ij. ij. ij. is not [...] moued: My constant loue with scorne she ill rewar-deth, onely my sighs a little she re- gardeth, [...] ij. Yet more and more ij. the quenchles [...] fire increaseth, increaseth, which to my greater torment neuer ceaseth. [...] which to my tor- ment neuer ceaseth. yet more and more, ij. [...] the quenchlesse fire increa- seth, yet more and more the [...] quenchlesse fire increaseth, which to my greater torment ne- uer ceaseth. [...] neuer ceaseth.

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XV.

[...] AS matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, a Phoenix proues faire [...] Le-o-nilla, ij. As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, a [...] Phoenix proues faire Le-o-nilla, ij. So thy sowre-sweet [...] loues: For when young Acons eye thy proud hart tames, thy proud hart tames, for [...] when young Acons eye thy proud hart tames, Thou dyest in him, and li- uest [...] in my flames. Thou dy'st in him, and li- uest in my flames. For when young [...] Acons eye thy proud hart tames, thy proud hart tames, for when young Acons eye thy [...] proud hart tames, Thou dy'st in him, and li- uest in my flames. thou dy'st in [...] him, and li- uest in my flames. and liuest in my flames.

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XVI.

[...] HAppy, oh happy he, who not affecting The endlesse toiles attending [...] worldly cares, The end- lesse toyles attending worldly cares, [...] at- ten- ding worldly cares, ij. ij. [...] With minde repos'd all discontents reiecting; with minde repos'd all [...] dis- con-tents re- iect- ing; In silent peace, ij. his way to heauen [...] prepares: ij. to heauen prepares, ij. ij. Deeming his life a [...] Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his Pilgrimage. his weary Pilgrimage, Dee- ming [...] his life a Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his wea- ry [...] Pil- grimage.

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XVII. First Part.

[...] SWeet hony sucking Bees, ij. why doe you still, ij. [...] surfet on Ro- ses, Pincks and Violets? As if the choyseft Nectar lay in them. [...] wherwith you store, your curious Cabi- nets: your curious Cabi- nets, Ah, [...] make your flight, ij. your flight, to Melituauiaes [...] lips, there may you reuell, ij. ij. in Am- brosian cheer, Wher smiling [...] Roses and sweet Lillies sit, there may you reuell, ij. in Ambrosian cheer, Where [...] smi- ling Ro- ses & sweet Lillies sit, keeping their springtide graces, [...] ij. all the yeer, their springtide graces al the yeer, all the yeer keeping their [...] springtide graces all the yeer. ij. ij.

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XVIII. Second part.

[...] YEt Sweet take heed, ij. all sweets are hard to get, ij. [...] sting not her soft lips, her soft lips, Oh beware of that, ij. [...] beware of that, ij. For if one fla- ming dart come from her [...] eye, ij. was neuer dart so sharp, Ah then you dye, you dye, ah then you [...] dye, then you dye, you dye, For if one flaming dart come from her eye, ij. [...] was neuer dart so sharp, Ah then you dye. then you dye. Ah then you dye. was neuer [...] dart, was neuer dart so sharp, was neuer dart so sharp, then you dye. Ah then you dye. [...] Ah then you dye. Ah then you dye. ij. ij. Ah then you [...] dye. you dye. ij.

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XIX.

[...] ALl plea- sure is of this condition, It pricks men forward [...] to fru-i-ti-on, Then like the hum- ming Bee, ij. ij. [...] ij. ij. The [...] honie being shed away doth flee, doth flee, But leaues a sting that wounds [...] ij. the inward hart, But leaues a sting that wounds, ij. [...] wounds the inward hart, But leaues a sting that wounds, the inward hart, ij. [...] With gnawing grief, & neuer ending smart. ij. [...] with gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart. and neuer ending smart. with [...] gnawing griefe and neuer ending smart.

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XX.

[...] OFt haue I vow'd how dearly I did loue thee, ij. how [...] deerely I did loue thee, And oft ob- seru'd thee with all willing dutie, ij. [...] Sighs I haue sent stil hoping to re- moue thee, ij. still [...] hoping to remoue thee, Millions of teares, Millions of tears, I tendred to thy beautie, [...] ij. Yet thou of sighs and filly [...] teares regard- lesse, suffrest my fee-ble hart suffrest my fee-ble [...] hart to pine with anguish, Whilst all my barren hopes returne reward- lesse, whilst [...] all my barren hopes returne reward- lesse, My better dayes do wast, and I [...] doe languish, and I doe languish. ij. and I doe languish.

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XXI. First part.

[...] DOwne in a valley, ij. ij. as A-lezis trips, [...] Daphne sat sweetly sleeping, Daphne sat sleeping, Soone as the wanton, Soone as the [...] wanton toucht her ruddy lips, she nicely falt a weeping, ij. ij. [...] The wag full softly lifts her, And too and fro he sifts her, ij. [...] But when nor sight, nor kisses mou'd her pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor teares [...] could moue her pitty, ij. With plaints he warbles [...] forth he warbles forth this mournfull dit- ty. But when nor sight nor kisses mou'd her [...] pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor tears could moue her pitty, ij. [...] with plaints he warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournful ditty.

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XXII. Second part.

[...] HArd De-stinies are Loue and Beautie parted? [...] Fayre Daphne so disdain- full? Cu- pid [...] thy shafts are too vn- iustly darted, [...] Fond Loue thy wounds be painefull, ij. But sith my louely [...] Iew- ell is prou'd so coy and cruell, Ile liue and frolicke, [...] Ile liue and fro- licke, Ile liue and frolicke, Ile liue and [...] fro- licke in her beauties trea- sure, But languish, But [...] languish, faint and dye, ij. But languish faint and dye, But [Page] [...] languish, faint and dye, in her dis- pleasure. Ile liue and frolicke, [...] Ile liue and fro- licke, Ile liue and frolicke, Ile [...] liue and fro- licke in her beauties trea- sure, But languish, [...] But languish, faint and dye, ij. ij. But languish [...] faint and dye in her dis- pleasure.

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XXIII.

[...] WEepe, weepe, weepe, weepe, O mine eyes, my hart can take no rest, [...] Weepe, weepe, weepe, weepe, O my hart, mine eyes shall ne're be blest, Weepe eyes, [...] weepe hart, and both this accent cry, and both this accent cry, A thousand, thousand [...] deaths I dye, ij. A thousand thousand deaths, a thou- sand [...] thousand deaths I dye, Aye me, ah, ah, cruell Fortune, Aye me, Now Le- ander to [...] dye I feare not, Death doe thy worst I care not, ij. [...] I hope, when I am dead, I hope when I am dead, in E- lizian plaine, ij. [...] To meete, and there with ioy, and there with ioy, [...] ij. with ioy weele loue againe. a- gaine.

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XXIIII.

[...] THere where I saw her louely beautie painted, ij. [...] Where Venus-like, where Venus-like my sacred Goddesse shineth, There with pre- cel- lent [...] obiect mine eies fain- ted, ij. That fair but [...] fa- tall star, ij. my dole deuineth, ij. As soone as morning [...] in her light appea- reth. ij. Her sweet salute my [...] minde or'e clou- ded cleareth, when night againe the dayes delight berea- ueth, [...] My harts true sacri- fice she quicke re- ceiueth, But night and day [...] she craftily forsakes me, To tedious day to loathsome night, to loathsome night, be- takes [...] me. To te-di-ous day to loathsome night betakes me.

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XXV.

[...] YEe that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] And dwell in Musicks sweetest Ayres, in [...] sweetest Ayres, And dwell in Mu- sicks sweetest Ayres, ij. [...] in sweetest Ayres, Whose eyes are quicke, Whose eares are [...] dainty, Whose eares are daintie, Not clogd with earth or [...] world- ly cares, Not clogd with earth or world- ly cares, with earth or [...] worldly cares, Come sing this song, this song, made in Amphions praise, [...] Who now is dead, Who now is dead, Who now is dead, yet you his Fame can [Page] [...] raise, Call him againe, let him not dye, But liue in Musicks sweetest breath, Place [...] him in fayrest memory, And let him triumph o- uer death, And let him [...] tri- umph ouer death, O sweetly sung (his wish) his liuing wish [...] attend yee, These were his words, the mirth of heauen, ij. [...] God send yee.

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XXVI.

[...] A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire, scotched his lips for his so [...] fond desire: I not so fond, ij. but gaz'd whilst such fire burned; straight into [...] flames, ij. was turned, And all my hart straight into flames was tur- ned: ij. [...] And all my hart straight into flames was tur- ned, ij. [...] ij. was turn'd, straight into flames was turned. The Siluan iust- ly [...] suffred for his kisse, His fire was stoln, and stolne things goe amisse, ij. [...] But I alas, a- las, vniustly, but I a- las ij. vniustly, but I a- las vn- iustly: [...] for to haue her heauenly fire the gods & graces, the gods & graces gaue her. ij. [...] ij. ij. the gods and graces gaue her.

Here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

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XXVII.

[...] O Wretched man, O wretched man, why lou'st thou earthly [...] life? Which naught enioyes but endlesse trouble? What plea- sure [...] here but breedes a world of griefe? What howers ease that anguish doth not [...] double? But haue their discontents? ij. Then loath that life, [...] Which causeth such laments. which causeth such la- ments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thought, there least my eye is striking, ij. [...] my eye is striking; Where least I come, [...] there most my hart abideth; From what my minde doth hold, my body [...] fly- deth, From what my minde doth hold, my body sli- deth: [...] I carelesse seeme where most my care depen- deth, where most my care [...] depen- deth; A coy regard, where most my soule attendeth. ij. [...] where most my soule attendeth.

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe I lan- guish, And in disdaine, my [...] selfe, and in disdain my selfe from ioy I ba- nish; That life I hope wil soone from [...] body vanish, from body vanish, And to some rest will quickly be conuayed, ij. [...] And to some rest will quickly be conuay- ed, [...] That on no ioy, no ioy, That on no ioy while so I liu'd, That on no ioy [...] while so I liu'd hath stayed. And to some rest will quickly be conuayed, ij. [...] And to some rest will quickly be conuay- ed, [...] That on no ioy, no ioy, that on no ioy while so I liu'd, that on no ioy [...] while so I liu'd hath stayed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot: O pitty me, O pitty me, Who more then life do loue thee, [...] doe loue thee, O, O, O, cruell fates, O, O, cru- ell fates, See now away shee's [...] flying, away shee's flying, And flye she will, and flye she will alas, and [...] leaue me dying, Farewell, farewell, most faire, farewell, yet more disdainefull, Was neuer [...] griefe like mine, nor death more painfull, O, O, O, cruell fates, See now away shee's [...] flying, ij. And flye shee will, a-las, and leaue me dying, and [...] leaue me dying, alas, alas, Farewell, farewell, farewell, most fayre, farewell, [...] yet more disdainefull, Was neuer griefe, was neuer griefe like mine, nor [...] death more paine- full.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares, ij. [...] vn-to those cares, That doe a-rise from painfull melancholy, My life so ill through [...] want of comfort fares, That vn-to thee, ij. I consecrate it wholy, ij. [...] Sweet night draw on, ij. ij. [...] draw on, sweet night, sweet night draw on, my griefes when they be told. [...] To shades & darknes, find some ease from paining, ij to pai- ning, [...] And when thou all in silence dost enfold, ij. [...] for my complayning. I then shall haue best time for my com- plaining. [...] ij.

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XXXII.

[...] STAY Coridon thou swaine, thou [...] swaine, talke not so soone of [...] dying, What though thy hart, thy hart be [...] slaine? What though thy hart, What though thy hart be slaine? ij. [...] What though thy loue be fly- ing? She threatens thee but dares not [...] strike, ij. ij. Thy Nimph is [...] light, and shadow like, Thy Nimph is light, and [...] sha- dow, like, ij. and shadow like, [Page] [...] For if thou follow her, For if thou follow her, Sheele flye from [...] thee, from thee, But if thou flye from her, sheele fol- low [...] thee. ij. sheele [...] follow thee. sheele follow thee. For if thou follow her, For if thou follow [...] her, sheele flye from thee, ij. But if thou [...] flye from her, sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. [...] sheele follow thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOftly, O softly: My hart with griefe to [...] melt and dye, Now powre out [...] teares a- pace, Now powre out [...] teares a- pace, ij. Now stay O heauy case, [...] Can paynes, and ioyes, Can paynes, and ioyes at once, in [...] one poore hart consent? Then sigh and sing, reioyce, lament, Then sing [...] Aye me, Aye me, O passions strange and vi-olent, Was neuer [...] wretch so sore tormen- ted, Nor ioy, nor griefe, can make my hart con- tented, [Page] [...] Was neuer wretch so sore tormen- ted, Nor ioy nor griefe, For [...] while with ioy I looke on hye, Downe, downe I fall, ij. with griefe, [...] And while I rise, Downe, downe I fall, ij. and while with ioy I looke on [...] hye, I looke on hye, Downe, downe I fall, with griefe, and dye. and dye. for [...] while vvith ioy I looke on hye, Downe, dovvne I fall and dye.

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils & vallies weary, With noyse of these my [...] shrikes & cryes that fill the aire, with noise of these my shrikes that fill the ayre, [...] with noise of these my shrikes that fill the ayre, heares not my prayer, That I alas, ij. [...] alas, misfortunes son & heyre, Hope in none other hope but in dispaire, O, [...] vnkind, and cruell, O, vnkind, ij. O vn- kind, & cruell, ij. if [...] thus my death may please thee, Then dye I will to ease thee, to ease thee, yet if I [...] dye, the world will thee controule, and write vpon my tombe, O sweet depar- ture, [...] loe here lyes one, ij. ij. (Alas poore soule) a true loues [...] Martyr. a true loues Mar- tyr.

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[Page] SEXTVS. THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Ʋoyces.

Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609.

LONDON: Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) wants the Fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBIE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares. XXXI

Stay Coridon thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

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XXVII. SEXTVS.

[...] O Wretched man, why lou'st thou earthly life? ij. O [...] Which naught enioyes but cares and end- lesse [...] trou- ble: What pleasure here but breeds a world of griefe? what plea- sure [...] here but breeds a world of griefe? ij. [...] What howers ease that anguish doth not dou- ble? that anguish doth not double? No [...] earthly ioyes but haue their discontents, but haue their discontents, ij. [...] ij. Then loath that life which causeth such laments. then [...] loath that life which causeth such laments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thought, there least my eye is striking, is striking, where [...] most my thought, there least my eye is stri- king; ij. Where [...] least I come, there most my hart abi- deth; ij. Where [...] most I loue, I neuer shew my liking; my liking; From what my minde doth hold, [...] my body slydeth, my body sly- deth; I carelesse seeme where most my care de- pendeth; [...] I carelesse seeme, where most my care dependeth, where most my care de- pen- deth; [...] A coy regard, where most my soule attendeth. ij. [...] where most my soule attendeth. atten- deth.

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe, vnto my selfe I languish, And in dis- daine, [...] ij. my selfe from ioy I ba- nish; These se-cret thoughts inwraps me, in- wraps [...] me so in an- guish, That life I hope wil soone from body vanish, And to some rest [...] will quickly be conuayed, ij. and to some rest will [...] quick- ly be conuayed, That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stay- ed. [...] while so I liu'd hath stayed. And to some rest will quickly be conuay- [...] ed, ij. and to some rest will quickly be con-uay- ed, [...] ij. will quickly be conuayed, That on no ioy [...] while so I liu'd hath stay- ed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot sighs, nor teares, nor ought else moue thee? To pit- ty me, [...] to pit- ty me, ij. Who more then life doe loue thee, O, O, O, [...] cruell fates, See now away shee's flying, ij And flye shee [...] will, alas, and leaue me dying, and leaue me dying, alas, alas, Farewell, farewell, [...] farewell, most faire, farewell, yet more disdainefull, Was neuer griefe, was neuer [...] griefe like mine, nor death more paine-full, O, O, O, cruell fates, O, O, cru- ell [...] fates, See now away shee's flying, away shee's flying, And flye she will, ij. [...] alas, and leaue me dying, Farewell, farewell, most fayre, farewell, [...] yet more disdainefull, Was ne-uer griefe like mine, nor death more painefull.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares, ij. ij. [...] That doe a-rise from painful melancho- ly, My life so [...] ill through want of comfort fares, That vnto thee, ij. I consecrate it wholy, that [...] vnto thee, to thee I consecrate it wholy: Sweet night draw on, ij. sweet night draw [...] on, draw on, sweet night draw on, ij. ij my griefs whē they be [...] told, To shades & darknes find some ease frō pai- ning, ij. [...] And while thou all in silence dost en- fold, in si-lence dost enfold, ij. [...] ij. I thē shal haue best time for my complaining. ij. [...] I thē shal haue best time for my cōplaining. ij.

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XXXII.

[...] STAY Coridon thou swaine talke [...] not so soone of dying, Stay Coridon thou [...] swaine talke not so soone of dying, [...] What though thy hart, ij. be slaine, be slaine? What though thy [...] loue be flying? She threatens thee, but dares not strike, ij. [...] She threatens thee, but dares not strike, but dares not strike, Thy Nimph [...] is light, is light and shadow like, Thy Nymph is [...] light and shadow like, ij. For if thou follow her, For [Page] [...] if thou follow her, Sheele flye from thee, ij. [...] But if thou flye from her sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. [...] ij. ij. For if thou follow her, For if thou follow her sheele [...] flye from thee, from thee, But if thou flye from her sheele [...] fol- low thee. ij. [...] sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOft-ly, O softly drop my eyes least [...] you be dry, And make my hart with [...] griefe to melt and dye, Now powre out [...] teares apace, apace, Now powre out teares apace, ij. ij. [...] Now stay O heauy case, O sowre sweet woe alas, alas, O griefe, O [...] ioy, why striue you so? Can paynes, and ioyes, and ioyes, and ioyes at [...] once in one poore hart consent? Then sigh and sing, reioyce, Then sigh and [...] sing, Aye me, ij. ij. ij. O passions [Page] [...] strange and violent, was neuer wretch so sore tormented, Nor ioy, nor griefe, [...] can make my hart contented, can make my hart contented, for while with [...] ioy I looke on hye, ij. Downe, downe I fall, I [...] looke on hye, Downe, downe I fall, ij. ij. ij. [...] ij. with griefe and dye, ij.

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils and vallies [...] weary, ij. With noyse of [...] these my shrikes, ij. and cryes that fill the ayre, Shee [...] onely who should make me mery, heares not my prayer, That I alas, ij. [...] mis-for- tunes sonne and heyre, ij. [...] that I a-las misfortunes sonne and heyre, Hope in none other hope [...] but in dispaire, O, vn- kinde, O vn- kinde, vnkinde, and cruell, [...] O vnkinde and cruell, if thus my death may please thee, Then dye I will to [Page] [...] ease thee, ij. then dye I will to ease thee, Yet if I dye, the [...] world will thee controule, and write vpon my tombe, O sweet departure, loe here lyes [...] one, ij. ij. ij. (Alas poore soule) a [...] true loues Martyr. ij. ij. a true loues Martyr.

FINIS.

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[Page] BASSVS. THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Ʋoyces.

Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE.

1609.

LONDON: Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet.

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TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady, the Lady Arbella Stuart.

Madame.

THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts, and perticular excellency in this of Musicke, doth by a certaine kinde of right, challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie; especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences, and (but for your Honour) often wants the fortune to be esteemed (for so shee is worthy) euen among the worthyest. But besides that generall right, my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour, and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition, hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work, then your Honour, whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke, I do wish might be pleased with some of these; which happinesse if they attaine, I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them. Howsoeuer they behaue themselues, I humbly beseech your Honour, to beleeue this truth; that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice. And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour, I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy, as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous.

Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged: IOHN WILBYE.

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THE TABLE.

Songs to 3. Uoyces.

COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing. I

Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers. II

Ah, cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight. III

So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining. IIII

As fayre as Morne, as fresh as May. V

O what shall I doe, or whither shall I turne me? VI

I liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath. VII

There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy. Risposta. VIII

Songs to 4. Uoyces.

WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying. IX

Happy streames whose trembling fall. X

Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone. XI

Loue not me for comely grace. XII

Fly not so swift my Deere. XIII

I loue alas, yet am not loued. XIIII

As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues. XV

Happy, oh happy he who not affecting. XVI

Songs to 5. Uoyces.

SWeet hony sucking Bees. First Part. XVII

Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get. Second part. XVIII

All pleasure is of this condition. XIX

Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee. XX

Downe in a valley as Alexis trips. First Part. XXI

Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted? Second Part. XXII

Weepe O mine eyes, my heart can take no rest. XXIII

There where I saw her louely beautie painted. XXIIII

Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty. XXV

A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire. XXVI

Songs to 6. Uoyces.

O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? XXVII

Where most my thought, First Part. XXVIII

Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish. Second Part. XXIX

Ah cannot sighes, nor teares. XXX

Draw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares. XXXI

Stay Coridon thou Swaine. XXXII

Softly, O softly drop mine eyes. XXXIII

Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary. XXXIIII

FINIS.

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I.

[...] COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing, Now sigh and [...] groan, Dead is my loue, my hope, my ioy, my spring, ij dead, [...] dead and gone, O she that was your Summers Queene your dayes delight, is gone and [...] will no more be seene, O cruell spight, Breake all your Pipes that wont to sound, [...] ij. with plea- sant cheere, And cast your selues vpon the [...] ground to waile my deere, Come shepheard swaynes, Come Nimphs and all a [...] roe, Come Nymphs, and all a roe, ij. to help me cry, Dead is my loue, [...] dead is my loue, ij. And seeing she is so, loe now I die.

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II.

[...] FLourish ye hillockes set with fragrant flowers, ij. [...] So graced with her deity, whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers, [...] whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers bewayling loues impiety. Happy yee [...] are, be prodigall disposed, disdaine not loues lamenting, Let me but kisse those steps where [...] she repo- sed, to ease my harts tormenting, ij. [...] then while she flyes me, ij. here I lye and languish, sounding my sorrowes, [...] ij. ij. tun'd in notes of an- guish. tun'd in notes [...] ij. ij. ij. of anguish.

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III.

[...] AH, cruell Amarillis, ij. since thou takst delight [...] to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie, to heare the accents of a dolefull [...] dittie, To triumph, ij. ij. ij. still with- out re- morse [...] or pittie, I loath this life, Death must my sorrowes right, ij. [...] And least vaine hope, ij. my miseries renue, Come quickly death, [...] ij. reaue me of breath, (Ah) cruell Amarillis, ij. ij. [...] Cruell Amarillis, ij. a-dew. a-dew

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IIII.

[...] SO light is loue in match- les beautie shining, ij. [...] When she reuisits Cypris hallowed bowers, Two feeble doues harnest in silken twining, [...] in silken twining, harnest in silken twining, ij. can draw her Chariot midst [...] the Paphian flowers, midst the Paphian flowers, Lightnesse to loue how ill it fitteth? [...] Light- nesse to loue how ill it fit- teth? Light- nesse to loue how ill it fit- teth? how [...] ill it fit- teth? So heauie on my hart she fitteth. Lightnes to loue how ill it fit- teth? [...] light- nesse to loue how ill it fit- teth? ij. [...] how ill it fit- teth? So heauy on my hart she fitteth.

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V.

[...] AS faire as morne, as fresh as May, A pretty grace in saying nay, ij. [...] Smil'st thou sweet heart? ij. Ta na na no, ij. [...] But(O) ij. that loue inchanting eye, Loe here my doubtfull doome I [...] try, my doome I try, But (O) ij. that loue inchanting eye, Loe here my doubtfull [...] doome I try, Loe here, loe here my doubtfull doome I try, Tell me my sweet, liue [...] I or dye? (tell me liue I or dye?) Tell me my sweet liue I or dye? O tell me liue [...] I or dye? Tell me my sweet, O tell me, liue I or dye? ij. [...] ij. She smiles, ij. Fa [...] la la, &c. Ah, she frownes, Aye me, Aye me I dye.

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VI.

[...] O What shall I doe, or whether shall I turne me? Shall I make vn-to her [...] eyes? O no they 'l burn me, Shall I seale vp my eies & speak my part? & speak my part? then [...] in a floud of tears, ij. I drown my heart, for tears being stopt will swel, will [...] swell for scope, [...] though they o'reflow, loue, life, and hope, By beauties eye Ile chuse to dye. At thy [...] feet I fall faire Creature, rich in beautie, And for pitty call, for pitty call, O kill [...] not loue and duty, ij. Let thy smooth tongue fanne on my sence thy [...] breath, to stay thine eies from bur- ning me to death. But if mer-cy [...] be ex-i-led from a thing so faire compi- led, ij. [...] then patient-ly by thee Ile dye.

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VII.

[...] I Liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath; ij. [...] I thirst, and drink; (againe) I drinke and thirst againe; I sleepe, & yet I dreame, I [...] dreame I am awake; I hope for that I haue; I haue and want, I sing and sigh; I loue and [...] hate at once, I sing and sigh, I loue and hate at once, O tell me restlesse soule, ij. [...] ij. What vncouth iarre, doth cause such want in store? doth [...] cause such want in store, in peace such warre?

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VIII. Risposta.

[...] THere is a iewell, there is a iewell which no Indian mines can buy, no Chimick [...] Art can counterfait, It makes men rich in greatest pouertie, ij. [...] in greatest pouertie, It makes men rich in greatest pouertie, Makes water [...] wine; turnes wooden cups to gould; ij. ij. [...] turnes wooden cups to gould, The homely whistle, to sweet musicks straine, ij. [...] Seldome it comes; to few from heauen sent, ij. [...] from heauen sent, That much in little all in naught, all in [...] naught, ij. ij. ij. [...] CONTENT.

Here endeth the songs of 3. parts.

4 voices

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IX.

[...] WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dy- ing, She grieued, she [...] grieued then for her vnkinde deny- ing, Oft sighing, ij. sore and with a [...] hart vnfayned, I dye, I dye, I dye, I dye, I dye, I dye, ij. I [...] dye, I dye she thus complayned, Whom when Amintas spyed, then both for ioy out [...] cryed, I loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye, I loue, I loue sweet Cloris eye, And [...] I Amintas till I dye.

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X.

[...] HAppy streames whose trembling fall, ij. [...] with still murmure soft- ly glyding, [...] Happy Birds whose chirping call, ij. with sweet [...] me- lody delighting, Hath mou'd her flintie and re- lentlesse hart to listen [...] to your harmony, And sit se-curely in these Downes a part, in chan-ted with your [...] melody, ij. Sing on and carroll forth your glee, and [...] carroll forth your glee, ij. sing on and catroll forth your [...] glee, She graunts you leaue her rayes to see, She graunts you leaue, ij. her [Page] [...] rayes to see, Happy were I, were I could loue but so delight [...] her, But aye alas my loue doth still despight her. But aye alas my loue, alas [...] my loue doth still despight her.

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XI.

[...] CHange me O heauens into the Ruby stone, ij. [...] That on my Loues faire locke doth hang [...] in gould, ij. Yet leaue me speech to her to make my [...] moane, yet leaue me speach to her to make my moane, to make my [...] moane, my moane, And giue me eyes her beauties to behould, her [...] beauties to behold, Or if you will not make, ij. my flesh a stone, [...] make her hard heart seeme flesh, that now seemes none. ij. [...] that now seemes none.

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XII.

[...] LOue not me for comely grace, for my pleasing eye or face; Nor for [...] any outward part, no, nor for my constant heart: For those may faile, those may [...] faile, ij. those may faile and turne to ill, So thou and I shall seuer: Keepe [...] therefore a true wo- mans eye, ij. Keepe therefore a [...] true wo- mans eye, ij. And loue me [...] still, but know not why; not why, ij. [...] And loue me still, but know not why, not why, So hast thou the same [...] reason still, to dote vpon me euer. to dote, to dote vpon me euer. ij.

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XIII.

[...] FLye not so swift my deere, ij. [...] behold me dying, ij. If [...] not a smi- ling glance for all my [...] crying, Yet kill me with thy frownes: ij. The Satyres [...] o're the lawnes full nimbly dauncing, Friske it a- pace, a-pace, to view thy beauties [...] glan- cing, Thy beauties glancing; ij. See how they coast the [...] downes, the downes, ij. ij. [...] Fayne wouldst thou turne and yeelde them their delight, faine wouldst thou [Page] [...] turne, faine wouldst thou turne and yeelde them their de- light, faine wouldst thou [...] turne, faine wouldst thou turne and yeeld them their delight, but that thou [...] fearst least I should steale a sight. least I should [...] steale a sight.

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XIIII.

[...] I Loue A- las, yet am not loued; a-las, a-las, yet am not loued, For [...] cruell shee, ij. to pit-ty, ij. ij. ij. is not [...] moued: My constant loue with scorne shee ill rewardeth, onely my sighs a lit-tle [...] shee regardeth, onely my sighs a lit-tle shee regardeth, Yet more and more the [...] quenchlesse fire increaseth, ij. which to my [...] greater torment neuer ceaseth. neuer ceaseth. yet more and more the quenchlesse fire [...] increaseth, yet more and more the quenchlesse fire increaseth, which to my greater [...] torment neuer ceaseth.

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XV.

[...] AS matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire [...] Le-o-nil-la, As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues, faire Le-o-nil-la, [...] So thy sowre-sweet loues: For when young Acons eye [...] thy proud hart tames, Thou dy'st in him, and li- uest in my [...] flames. For when young Acons eye thy proud hart tames, Thou [...] dy'st in him, and li- uest in my flames.

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XVI.

[...] HAppy, oh happy he, who not affecting The end- lesse [...] toiles attending worldly cares, The endlesse toyles at- ten- ding [...] worldly cares, ij. With minde re- pos'd [...] all discontents reiecting; In silent peace, his way to heauen pre- pares, [...] In silent peace his way to heauen pre- pares: Deeming his [...] life a Scene, the world a Stage, whereon man acts his weary [...] Pilgrimage.

Here endeth the Songs of 4. parts.

5 voices

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XVII. First Part.

[...] SWeet hony sucking Bees: Ah, make your flight, to Melisuauiaes [...] lips, Ah make your flight to Melisuauiaes lips, there may you reuell, [...] there may you reuell in Am- brosian cheere, Where smiling Roses [...] and sweet Lillies sit, keeping their Spring-tide, ij. graces, all the [...] yeere. keeping their Spring-tide graces all the yeere. keeping their [...] Spring-tide gra-ces all the yeere.

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XVIII. Second part.

[...] YEt Sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get, sting [...] not, sting not her soft lips, Oh beware of that, ij. ij. [...] ij. For if one flaming dart come from her eye, ij. [...] was neuer dart so sharp, Ah, Ah then you dye. ah then you dye. you dye. [...] was neuer dart so sharpe, Ah then you dye. was neuer dart so sharpe, [...] Ah then you dye. you dye. Ah then you dye. you dye. Ah then you dye. [...] Ah then you dye.

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XIX.

[...] ALl plea- sure is of this condi-ti-on, It [...] pricks men forward to fru-i-ti-on, But if enioy'd then like the [...] humming Bee, then like the humming Bee, ij. The honie [...] being shed away doth flee, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward [...] hart, But leaues a sting ij. that wounds, the in- ward [...] hart, With gnawing griefe, ij. and neuer ending smart. With [...] gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart.

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XX.

[...] OFt haue I: How dearely I did loue thee, ij. And [...] oft obseru'd thee, and oft obseru'd thee with all willing du- tie, Sighs I haue [...] sent, stil hoping to remoue thee, ij. to remoue thee, Millions of [...] teares, I tendred to thy beautie, Yet thou of sighs and fil- ly [...] teares regardlesse, suffrest my feeble hart, my fee-ble hart to pine with anguish, [...] to pine with anguish, Whilst all my barren hopes returne re- wardlesse, [...] My bet- ter dayes doe wast, and I doe lan- guish. my bet-ter [...] dayes doe wast and I doe languish.

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XXI. First part.

[...] DOwne in a valley, ij. ij. as A- lexis [...] trips, Daphne sat sweetly sleeping, ij. Soone as the wanton toucht her [...] ruddy lips, she nicely fals a weeping, ij. ij. [...] And too and fro he sifts her, The wag full softly lifts her, And too & fro he sifts [...] her, But when nor sighs, nor kisses mou'd her pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor [...] teares could moue her pitty, ij. With plaints hee [...] warbles forth, hee warbles forth this mournfull ditty. But when nor sighs nor kisses [...] mou'd her pitty, nor sighs could moue her pitty, nor tears could moue her pitty, ij. [...] with plaints he warbles forth, he warbles forth this mournful ditty.

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XXII.

[...] HArd Destinies are Loue and Beau-tie parted? [...] Fayre Daphne so disdainfull? Cupid thy shafts [...] are too vniust- ly darted, Fond Loue thy wounds be painefull, Fond [...] Loue thy wounds be painefull, But sith my louely Iewell is prou'd so coy and [...] cruell, Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties treasure, Ile liue and [...] fro- licke in her beau- ties treasure, But languish, But [...] languish, faint and dye in her displeasure. But languish faint and dye in [...] her displeasure. Ile liue and fro- licke in her beauties treasure, Ile [Page] [...] liue and fro- licke in her beau- ties treasure, But languish, [...] But languish, faint and dye, in her displeasure. But languish faint and [...] dye in her displeasure.

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XXIII.

[...] WEepe, weepe, weepe, mine eyes, my hart can take no rest, Weepe, [...] weepe, weepe my hart, mine eyes shall ne're be blest, Weepe eyes, weepe hart, and [...] both this accent cry, A thousand deaths I dye, I dye, Flamminia, I dye, A [...] thousand deaths I dye, I dye, ij. Ah, ah, cru-ell Fortune, [...] Aye me, Death doe thy worst I care not, Death doe thy worst I care not, I [...] hope when I am dead, ij. in E-li-zian plaine, To meet, and [...] there with ioy weele loue againe.

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XXIIII.

[...] THere where I saw her louely beautie painted, Where Venus-like [...] my sacred Goddesse shineth, There with precellent obiect mine eyes fain- ted, [...] That faire but fa- tall star, ij. my dole deuineth, As [...] soone as morning in her light appeareth, appeareth, Her sweet salute my minde or'e- clouded [...] cleareth, When night againe the dayes delight bereaueth, My harts true sa-cri- fice [...] she quicke receiueth, But night and day she craf ti-ly forsakes me, To te- dious [...] day to loathsome night betakes me. to loathsome night be-takes me.

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XXV.

[...] YEe that doe liue in pleasures plen- ty, [...] Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty, in plenty, And [...] dwell in Musickes sweetest Ayres, ij. in sweetest Ayres, [...] Whose eyes are quicke, Whose eares are dainty, Not clogd with earth, [...] or worldly cares, Come sing this song, made in Amphions praise, Who now [...] is dead, Who now is dead, yet you his Fame can raise, Call him a- gaine, [...] let him not dye, But liue in Musicks sweetest breath, Place him in fayrest [...] memory, And let him triumph ouer death, And let him tri- umph [Page] [...] ouer death: O sweetly sung, his liuing wish attend yee, These were his words, the [...] mirth of heauen God send yee. God send yee.

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XXVI.

[...] A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire, scorched his lips for his so [...] fond desire: I not so fond, but gaz'd whilst such fire burned, And all my hart straight into [...] flames was tur- ned. And all my hart straight into flames was turn'd. straight into [...] flames was turned. And all my hart straight into flames was turned. ij. [...] was turned. The Siluan iustly suffred for his kisse, His fire was [...] stolne, and stolne things goe amisse, ij. & But I alas vniustly, but I alas [...] vniustly, for to haue her her heauenly fire the Gods and graces gaue her, the [...] Gods and gra-ces gaue her. ij. ij. ij. [...] the Gods and graces gaue her.

Here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

6 voices

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XXVII.

[...] O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life? O wretched [...] man why lou'st thou earthly life? Which naught enioyes but cares and end- lesse [...] trouble? What plea- sure here but breeds a world of griefe? ij. [...] What how- ers ease that [...] anguish doth not dou- ble? but haue their discontents, but haue their [...] discontents, Then loath that life which causeth such laments. Then loath that [...] life which causeth such laments.

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XXVIII. First part.

[...] WHere most my thought, there least my eye is stri- king, [...] Where least I come, there most my hart abideth; Where most I loue, I neuer [...] shew my liking; From what my minde doth hold, my body slydeth, I carelesse seeme [...] where most my care dependeth, ij. A coy re- gard, [...] where most my soule attendeth. ij. where most my [...] soule attendeth. ij. where most my soule attendeth.

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XXIX. Second part.

[...] DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish, And in disdaine, my selfe [...] from ioy I ba- nish; These se-cret thoughts inwraps me so in anguish, [...] That life I hope will soone from body vanish, And to some rest will quickly [...] be conuayed, ij. That on no ioy while so I [...] liu'd hath stayed. And to some rest will quickly be conuayed, ij. [...] That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stayed.

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XXX.

[...] AH cannot sighs, nor teares, nor ought else moue thee? To pitty me, [...] to pitty me, to pitty me, Who more then life do loue thee, O, O, cruell fates, [...] ij. See now away shee's flying, ij. And flye she will, alas, [...] and leaue me dying, and flye she will alas, a- las, and leaue me dying, Farewell, [...] farewell, most faire, farewell, farewell, Was neuer griefe like mine, nor death more [...] painfull, O, O, cruell fates, ij. See now away shee's flying, ij. And [...] flye she will, alas, and leaue me dying, and flye she will alas, a-las, & [...] leaue me dying, Farewell, farewell, most fayre, farewell, farewell, Was neuer griefe [...] like mine, nor death more painefull.

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XXXI.

[...] DRaw on sweet night, best friend vnto those cares, That doe a-rise from [...] painefull melancholy, My life so ill through want of comfort fares, I conse- crate [...] it wholy, that vnto thee, to thee I consecrate it wholy: Sweet night draw [...] on, draw on, my griefes when they be told To shades and darknes, find some [...] ease from paining, And while thou all in silence dost en- fold, ij. [...] I then shall haue best time for my complaining. [...] ij. my complai- ning.

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XXXII.

[...] STAY Coridon thou [...] swaine talke not so soone of dy- ing, [...] What though thy hart, What [...] though thy hart be slaine? What though thy hart, What though thy hart be slaine? [...] She threatens thee but dares not strike, Thy Nimph is light, [...] and shadow like, For if thou follow her, For if thou follow her, Sheele [...] flye from thee, from thee, But if thou flye from [...] her sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. sheele fol- low thee, [Page] [...] For if thou follow her, For if thou follow her, sheele flye from [...] thee, from thee, But if thou flye from her sheele follow [...] thee, sheele follow thee. sheele fol- low thee.

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XXXIII.

[...] SOftly, O softly: Now powre out [...] teares apace, Now powre out teares a- pace, [...] ij. Now stay O [...] heauy case, Can paynes, and ioyes at once consent? ij. [...] Can paynes and ioyes in one poore hart consent? Then sigh and [...] sing, reioyce, lament, ij. Aye me, Aye me, O passions strange [...] and violent, Was neuer wretch so sore tormented, Nor ioy, nor griefe, can make my [...] hart contented, Was neuer wretch so sore tormented, Nor ioy nor griefe, [Page] [...] Downe, downe I fall, for while with ioy I looke on hye, ij. [...] ij. Downe, downe I fall, Downe, downe I fall, [...] ij. ij. with griefe, with griefe and dye,

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XXXIIII.

[...] LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary, With [...] noyse of these my shrikes and cryes that fill the ayre, that fill the ayre, She one-ly [...] who should make me mery, That I alas, misfortunes sonne and heyre, [...] that I a- las, alas, misfortunes sonne and heyre, Hope in none o- ther [...] hope but in dispaire, O, vnkinde, and cruell, vnkinde, and cruell, O, vn- kinde, [...] O vnkinde, vnkinde, and cruell, if thus my death may please thee, Then [...] dye I will to ease thee, and write vpon my tombe, O sweet departure, loe [...] here lyes one, (Alas poore soule) a true loues Martyr. a true loues Martyr.

FINIS.

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The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for voyals [sic] and voyces. Newly composed by Iohn Wilbye. 1609.Madrigals, voices (3-6), set 2

Wilbye, John, 1574-1638.

Edition statement

1609

Publication

Publisher

Text Creation Partnership,

Place of publication

Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) :

Date

2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A15333

ID [STC]

STC 25619A

ID [STC]

ESTC S111756

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99847027

ID [PROQUEST]

99847027

ID [VID]

12032

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Series

Early English books online.

Notes

(EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A15333)

Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 12032)

Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 980:6)

Source

— The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for voyals [sic] and voyces. Newly composed by Iohn Wilbye. 1609., Madrigals, voices (3-6), set 2, Wilbye, John, 1574-1638..

Extent

[216] p. : music

Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet,. London :: [1609]. (Six partbooks. At head of title, part 1: "Cantus."; part 2: "Altus."; part 3: "Tenor."; part 4: "Bassus."; part 5: "Quintus."; part 6: "Sextus.".) (Signatures: [A]² B-F⁴; [A]² B-F⁴; [A]² B-E⁴; [A]² B-F⁴; [A]² B-D⁴; [A]² B-C⁴.) (Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.)

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