ALTVS.The firſt ſet …

ALTVS.

The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.

Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practicioner in the Art of Musicke, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the Citie of Chester.

1604.

IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.

THE TABLE.

Of 6. voc.

  • When Oriana walkt to take the ayer:
    This Song was sent to late, and should haue been printed in the set of Orianaes: but being a work of this author, I haue placed it before this set of his Songs.
Songs to 3. voices.
  • BEautie is a louely sweet. I
  • Loue would discharge the dutie of his hart. II
  • The Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringeth. III
  • Aye mee, my mistresse scornes my loue. IIII
  • Come follow mee faire Nymphes. V
  • Your shining eyes and golden haire. VI
Songs to 4. voices.
  • Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowres. VII
  • Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe. VIII
  • Downe from aboue falls Ioue in rayne. IX
  • Adue sweet loue, Adue. X
  • If loue bee blinde, how hath hee then the sight. XI
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XII
Songs to 5. voices.
  • Those sweet delightfull Lillies. XIII
  • And must I needs depart then. XIIII
  • Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV
  • Yet stay alway, be chained to my hart. Second part. XVI
  • Strange were the life that euery man would like. XVII
  • Alas where is my loue, where is my sweeting. XVIII
  • O fly not loue, O fly not mee. XIX
  • Who prostrate lyes at womens feet. XX
  • Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI
Orianaes farewell.
  • Hark, heare you not a heauenly harmony. XXII
Songs to 6. voices.
  • Deare, if you wish my dying. XXIII
  • Faire Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XXV
  • Thirsis, Thirsis on his faire Phillis. XXVI
  • Merely my loue and I. XXVII
  • Musick some thincks no Musick is. XXVIII
FINIS.

TO MY HONORABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir VVilliam Norres Knight of the honorable order of the Bath: Thomas Bate­son wisheth long lyfe, health and happinesse, with increase of honor.

SYR, I am bould to present vnto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you haue heeretofore (rather for your exceeding loue to mee, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) giuen them your priuate applause & liking, when I sent them to you euer as they were composed in loose papers, so you wil much more now, (for now in-deed when they come to the worlds eye and censure, they had more need of it then euer) Vouchsafe to giue them your good countenance and publick patronage. In trueth I must confesse, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & finde no place so fit to light on as on the braun­ches of your fauour: where (such is your loue to mee and Musick) I hope they wilbe so shrou­ded in the leaues of your good liking, that you will giue leaue neither to any rauenous Kite nor craftie fowler (I meane neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more slie detractor) to deuoure, or harme them, that cannot succor nor shift for themselues. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your eares with the choisest of delight­full Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not passe without delight, if they might yeeld it to you. But whatsoeuer they are, yours they are, & for you onely they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage mee to this; Your loue to Musick doth not onely chalenge it of mee, but euen the vttermost that Musicks art can afford; which if it were in mee, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate indeuours be accepted, since this is all that I can performe: except the honoring of your Vertues, and obseruance of your worthinesse.

Yours in all loue and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.

This song should haue bene printed in the set of Orianaes.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...]WHen O╌riana walkt to take the aier, The world did striue to entertain so faire, the world ij. the world ij. By Flora faire and swee­test flowers were strone, by Flora ij. were strone, A long the way for her to tread vpon, a long ij. The trees did blossom, Siluer ri╌uers ran, the trees ij. The wind did gently play vp╌on her fan: And then for to delight her graces eare, her ij. her ij. The woods a temple seemd, the birds a quire. the woods ij. the woods ij. Then sang the sheperds & Nimphs of Diana, and ij. and ij. and ij. Long liue faire O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. Long liue faire O╌ria╌na▪ faire O╌ri╌ana.

I.

Of 3. voc. ALTVS.

[...] BEautie is a louely sweet, where pure white and crimson meet: wher ij. Beautie is a louely sweet, wher pure white & crimsō meet: wher ij. Ioyn'd with fauour of the face, chiefest flour of femall race: chiefest ij. Oh chiefest flour of femall race. But if vertue might be seene, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine. it ij. it ij. it ij. delight the eine. But if vertue might be seene, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine. it ij. it ij. it ij. de­light the eine.

II.

Of 3. voc. ALTVS.

[...] LOue would discharge the dutie of his hart, in beauties praise, whose greatnes doth denie, words to his thoughts, words ij. & thoughts to his desert: & thoughts ij. and ij. which high conceipt since nothing can supply, can supply, which ij. since nothing can supply, Loue heere constraind through conquest to confesse: bids silence sigh, that tongue cannot expresse▪ bids ij. bids si╌lence sigh that ij. that ij. cannot ex╌presse. Loue heere constraind through conquest to con╌fesse: bids silence sigh, that ij. bids ij. bids si╌lence sigh, that tongue can not ex╌presse. that tongue can not, can not ex╌presse.

III.

Of 3. voc. ALTVS.

[...] THe Nightingale, the ij. so soone as Aprill bring­eth, so ij. vnto her rested sence, a perfect waking: vnto ij. while late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorne her song booke making: and mournfully bewayling, and ij bewayling, her throat in tunes ex­presseth, what griefe her brest oppresseth, what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij.

IIII.

Of 3. voc. ALTVS.

[...] AYe mee, ij. ij. Aye mee, my mistris scorns my loue, Aye mee, ij. my loue, I feare she will most cruell proue: I feare ij. I feare ij. she wil most cruell proue. Aye mee: Aye mee, I weep, I sigh, I greeue & groane, I weep, ij. I ij. I greeue and groane, I ij. yet shee regardeth not, yet ij. my moane: then loue adew, adew, ij. ij. adew it sits not mee, to weepe for her that laughs at thee. to ij. to ij. to ij. for her, to ij that laughes at thee, to weepe for her, that laughs at thee. Deere. but I Loue ij. kild the Deere.

V.

Of 3. voc. ALTVS.

[...] COme follow mee faire Nymphs, come ij. come ij. come ij, come follow mee faire Nimphs, hie runne a pase, runne, hie i [...] ▪ run a pase, Diana hunting, honoreth, honoreth this chase: Dia╌na ij. foftlie, for feare her game we rowse, softlie ij. softly ij. lodgd in this groue of briers & bows. Hark how the huntsmen, how ij. winds their horns, see how the deere, see ij. mounts ore the thorns: the black, ij. ij. O ho, O ho, he pincht thee ther, Gowen ran wel, oh Gowen ij. ran wel, but I loue kild the deere▪ ye black, ij. ij. O ho, O ho he pincht thee ther, Gowen ran wel, oh Gowē ij. ran well, but I Loue kild the

VI.

Of 3 voc. ALTVS.

[...] YOur shining eies and gowlden haire, your Lillie rosed lipps most faire: your ij. your other beauties that ex╌cell, your ij. men can not chuse, but like them well. ij men ij. But when for them, they say theil dye, they ij. beleeue them not they doe but lie. but lie. be ij. be ij. beleeue them not they do but lie. they do but lie. But when for them, they say theile die: they ij. beleeue them not they doe but lie. but lie. be ij. be ij. beleeue thē not they do but lie. they do but lie.

Heere endeth the songs of 3. parts.

VII.

Of 4. voc. ALTVS.

[...] WHether so fast, see how the kindly flow'rs perfume the Ayre: perfume ij. & all to make, to make thee stay. The climbing woodbind clipping all these bowers, all ij. clips thee likewise: ij. for feare thou passe a╌way for ij. Fortune our friend, ij. Our foe will not gainsay not gainsay. Stay but a while, but a while, Phaebe no tel╌tale is: Shee her Endimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse. Ile ij. She ij. Ile my ij. Stay but a while, but a while, Phaebe no tel╌tale is, shee her En­dimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse. Ile ij. She ij. Ile my ij.

VIII.

Of 4 voc. ALTVS.

[...] DAme Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hād with speare & shield. Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field, he cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hand with speare & shield. The roaring Canons thunder out, thun╌der out, such terrours as not fit: a tender Impe of your regard, which dalling still doth sit. ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit.

IX.

Of 4. voc. ALTVS.

[...]DOwne from aboue, falls Ioue in rayne, falles Ioue in rayne, into faire Danaes lap amaine: into ij. into ij. thereat shee starts, thereat, yet Lamblike still: yet Lamblike still: at last performeth all his will. at ij. Both hie and low such golden guifts, such: ij. such ij. such: ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will put their conscience to the shift. their conscience to the shift.

X.

Of 4. voc. ALTVS.

[...] A Dew sweet loue, a dew, a dew, a dew, sweete loue, a dew, ij. O thus to part, kills my bleeding hart: O ij. O ij. Yet fates alas, will haue it so, yet ij. yet ij. will haue it so, will ij. Cru­ell their dome ij. so to de╌cree, at once to part two louers true. at ij. at once to part two louers true. But since we needs must part: but ij. but ij. once againe, ij. ij. a dew sweet hart. a dew a dew a dew sweet hart. a dew, ij. a dew, sweet hart.

XI.

Of 4 voc. ALTVS.

[...] I Floue be blind, how hath he then the sight, how ij. with beauties beames my carelesse hart to wound: to wound: my care╌ij. my care╌ij. Or if a boy, ij. how hath he thē ye might, ij. the might, the mighti'st conquerors to bring to ground to ij. ground. the ij. O no he is not blind, but I that leese, O no ij. my thoughts, the wayes that bring to restlesse feares: my thoughts ij. restlesse feares: Nor yet a boy, but I that liue in dread, that liue ij. mixed with hope, and seeke for ioy in teares. mixed with ij. for ioy in teares.

XII.

Of 4. voc. ALTVS.

[...] PHillis, fare well, I may no longer liue: I ij. Yet if I dye, yet ij. faire Phillis I forgiue: ij. I liue to long, I ij. come gentle death and end: come ij. my endlesse torment or my griefe, my griefe amend. my endlesse ij. my endlesse torment, or my griefe amend. I liue to long, ij. Come gentle death & end: ij. my endlesse torment, or my griefe, my griefe a­mend. my endlesse ij. my endlesse torment or my griefe amend.

Heere endeth the songs of 4 parts.

XIII.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS.

[...]THose sweet delightful Lil╌lies, which nature gaue my Phillis: which ij. which ij. which ij. my Phil╌lis: Those sweet delightful Lil╌lies, which nature gaue my Phillis, which ij. which ij. which nature: ij. Aye mee, aye: mee, aye mee, my Phillis, my Phillis, each houre makes mee, makes mee to languish: So greeuous is my paine, my paine and an╌guish. my paine and an­guish. So ij. So ij. my paine and an╌guish. Ay mee, Ay mee, Aye mee my Phillis, my Phillis, each houre makes mee, makes mee to lan╌guish. So greeuous is my paine, my paine and an╌guish. my paine and anguish, So ij. So ij. my paine and an╌guish.

XIIII.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS.

[...]AND must I needs depart then, And ij. and ij. de­part then, depart then, can pit╌tie none come nye her: can ij. can pittie ij. come ij. can pittie ij. farewell, ij. ij. ij. alas deseart then, farewell alas deseart then: ij. ij. O break a­sunder heart to satis╌fie her. O ij. O ij. O ij. alas to sa╌tisfie her. to ij. to ij. to satis╌fie, to sa╌tis╌fie her, farewel, ij. ij. farewel alas desert then, ij. fare­wel, ij. farewel: ij. O break asunder hart, to satis╌fie her. O ij. O ij. O ij. alas to ij. ij.

XV.

Of 5. voc. The first part. ALTVS.

[...]SWeet Gemma, when I first beheld thy beautie, thy beautie, I vow'd thee seruice, ij. ij. ij. honour, loue, and duetie, and duetie, and duetie, honour, loue and dutie, Oh then, ij. I saide, the best: I ij. I ij. is hi╌ther come, to make mee blest: mee blest: but thou alas, alas, ij. ij. a╌las, a╌las sweet, thou dost not regard, dost ij. my vow, goe, goe let mee not see, ij. ij. goe: ij. not see, Cruell though fayrest thee. though: ij. Cru­ell ij. Cruell ij. though fayrest thee. to ij. ij. to satis╌fie her.

XVI.

Of 5. voc. The second part. ALTVS.

[...] YEt stay al╌way, Yet ij. yet ij. yet ij. yet ij. alway, bee chai╌ned to my heart, to my hart, with links of loue, that wee doe neuer part: with ij. with ij. that wee doe ne╌uer part. Then Ile not call thee Serpent, Tiger cru╌ell, (O) Tiger cru╌ell, but my sweet Gemma and my deerest Iuell. but ij. but ij. Gem╌ma but my sweete Gemma, and my dearest Iu╌ell. and my dearest Iu╌ell.

XVII.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS.

[...] STrange were the life, strange, ij. strange ij. that eu'╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, that ij. rare were the Iemme, rare were ij. that eu'rie one would seeke, that ij. and little little worth, and little ij. and little ij. that all would let a╌lone, that ij. sweet were the meat, sweet ij. sweet ij. that eu'╌rie one would choose, and sowre the sause, and ij. and sower ij. and ij. that all men would re╌fuse.

XVIII.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS

[...]ALas, a╌las, where is my Loue? where is my sweeting? where is ij. That hath stolne away my hart, that ij. meeting: god send vs meeting, that renuing my lament, that ij. with friendly greeting, with ij. with friend: ij. She may release my smart, & all my weeping: she ij. shee ij. But if my sight she flie, till hartles I die, till ij. My grieued ghost with shrikes & dreadful crying, & dread: ij. & dread: ij. alwaies about her flying, fly╌ing, shal murmure out complayning, to be reuēg'd of al her deep disdayning. to ij. to ij. to ij.

XIX.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS.

[...] O Flie not Loue, O flie not mee, O flie not loue, O flie not mee, O flie not loue, O flie not mee, O ij. O flie not mee, not mee, stay but a while, but ij. but ij. but ij. stay thee, stay but awhile but ij. stay thee, O stay thee, & heare a wretch complai╌ning, com­plaining, his griefe through thy disdaining: thy disdayning: O do not thus, do not thus vn­friendly vse mee, O doe not thus vnfriendly O doe ij. vse mee, O doe not thus vnfriendly vse mee, to kisse mee once and so re╌fuse mee. to kisse ij. to kisse ij. and so re╌fuse mee.

XX.

Of 5. Voc. ALTVS.

[...] WHo prostrate lies at Womens feete, at woo: ij. And cals them darlings deare and sweet, deere and sweet, and cals ij. and cals ij. and sweet, and cals ij. Protest╌ing loue and crauing grace, And prai╌sing oft, and prai╌sing oft a foolish face, a ij. and prai: ij. are often times deceiu'd at last, then catch at naught and hould it fast. then ij. then catch at nought and hould it fast, it fast. are often times deceiu'd at last, then catch at naught and hould it fast. then catch at naught and hould it fast, then catch at naught and hould it fast. it fast.

XXI.

Of 5. voc. ALTVS.

[...] SIster awake &c. The day her light, disclo╌ses, her light ij. and the bright morning and ij. doth a╌rise, doth arise, Out of her bed of Roses: out ij. See, See see the cleere Sunne, the worlds, the worlds bright Eie, in at our window peeping: in ij. pee╌ping, Loe how he blusheth, to es╌pie vs idle wenches slee­ping, vs idle ij. therfore awake, make hast I say, and let vs without stay╌ing, all in our gowns of greene so gaye, into the Parke a May╌ing. into ij. into ij. in╌to the Park a May╌ing. a May╌ing.

XXII.

Of 5 voc. Orianaes farewell. ALTVS.

[...]HArk, heare you not, heare you not a heauenly harmony, a heauēly harmony, a hea­uenly harmo╌ny: Ist Ioue think you, Ist Ioue think you, that plaies, ij. ij. that plaies vp­pon the Spheares: heauens, heauens, is not this, heauens is not this heauenly melody, heauens ij. hea: ij. is not this, heauenly melody, Wher Ioue him self, him selfe, him selfe, wher ij. a part in Mu╌sick beares. Now comes in a quire of Nightin­gales: Mark, mark how the Nimphs & sheperds of the dales, how all do ioyne together in the praise of O╌ri╌anaes life & happy daies. of Ori: ij. of Ori: ij. Then sing ye sheperds & Nimphs of Dia╌na, Then ij. & Nimphs ij. Nimphs of Di╌ana, In heauen liues O╌ri╌a╌na, In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij.

Heere endeth the Songs of 5. parts.

XXIII.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...] DEare if you wish my dying, if you wish my dy╌ing, Deare, ij. In vaine your wish redownds, in vaine your prayer, for can hee die that breath's not vitall ayer? vitall ayer, that ij. that breaths not vi╌tall ayer, Then with those eyes that slew mee, then ij. that slew mee, renew mee: re╌new me: re: ij. So shall we both obtaine our wished pleasure, our wished pleasure, you my death ioying, my death ioying, and I my lifes sweet treasure. and I my lifes sweet treasure. and ij. and I my lifes sweet trea╌sure, sweet treasure. and I my lifes sweet trea╌sure.

XXIIII.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...] FAire Hebe, when dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, she trips and leapes, she ij. she ij. as gallants doe, she trips ij. Vp to the hills and downe againe, and downe againe, to the vallaies runs shee too and fro: runs ij. runs ij. But out alas, but out a╌las, a╌las, but out a╌las, alas, when frosty locks begirds the head, with cark and care, with cark and care: Peace, laugh no more, no more, Peace laugh no more, let prancks goe by, let prancks goe by, let prancks goe by, slow crauling age forbids such ware. slow crauling age, slow crauling age for╌bids such ware, such ware.

XXV.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...] PHillis farewell I may no longer liue, I ij. I ij. I may no longer liue, Yet if I dye, faire Phillis I forgiue: faire ij. faire ij. I liue to long, come gentle death and end: come ij. come gentle ij. come ij. my endles torment, or my griefe, my griefe amend. my ij. my ij. my griefe amend. or my ij. or my ij. my griefe a mend. a╌mend.

XXVI.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...] THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, on his faire Phillis brest repo╌sing, sweetly did languish, did lan╌guish, sweetly ij. sweetly did lan╌guish, when shee in loues sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, him kis: ij. said thus, Thirsis O tell me, O tell me, thy true loue best aprooued, thy true ij. art not thou, art not thou my belou╌ed, Then hee then hee, which to her hart was e╌uer nee╌rest: kist her againe, & said, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy deerest. yes, yes ij. then hee which to her hart was e╌uer nee╌rest: kist her a╌gaine, & said, and said, yes, yes La╌dy, deerest. yes, yes Lady dee╌rest.

XXVII.

Of 6. voc. ALTVS.

[...] MEre╌ly my loue and I, my loue and I, vp╌on the plains were sporting, vpon ij. vpon ij. were sporting. were ij. chearfully the Nimphs and Faunes, the ij. oft times to vs resor╌ted, oft ij. re╌sorted oft ij. sorrow did not vs assaile, not ij. wee tasted of each pleasure: happie those that may with vs, haue part of loues rich treasure. haue part ij. of loues rich treasure. happie those ij. that may with vs, haue part of loues rich trea╌sure. of loues rich trea╌sure. of loues rich trea╌sure.

XXVIII.

Of 6 voc. ALTVS.

[...] MVsicke some think no Musick is, no Musick is, Vnlesse shee sing of clip and kisse, Vnlesse ij. vnlesse, ij. vnlesse shee sing of clip and kisse, And bring to wanton tunes fie fie fie fie, Or tihha tah╌ha or ile crie: or tih╌ha: ij. or tihha ij. or ile crie: But let, but let such rimes no more disgrace, but ij. such rimes no more disgrace, Musicke sprung of heauenly race. Musicke ij. Musicke sprung of heauen╌ly race.

FINIS.
TENOR.The firſt ſet …

TENOR.

The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.

Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practicioner in the Art of Musicke, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the Citie of Chester.

1604.

IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.

THE TABLE.

Of 6. voc.

  • When Oriana walkt to take the ayer:
    This Song was sent to late, and should haue been printed in the set of Orianaes: but being a work of this author, I haue placed it before this set of his Songs.
Songs to 3. voices.
  • BEautie is a louely sweet. I
  • Loue would discharge the dutie of his hart. II
  • The Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringeth. III
  • Aye mee, my mistresse scornes my loue. IIII
  • Come follow mee faire Nymphes. V
  • Your shining eyes and golden haire. VI
Songs to 4. voices.
  • Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowres. VII
  • Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe. VIII
  • Downe from aboue falls Ioue in rayne. IX
  • Adue sweet loue, Adue. X
  • If loue bee blinde, how hath hee then the sight. XI
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XII
Songs to 5. voices.
  • Those sweet delightfull Lillies. XIII
  • And must I needs depart then. XIIII
  • Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV
  • Yet stay alway, be chained to my hart. Second part. XVI
  • Strange were the life that euery man would like. XVII
  • Alas where is my loue, where is my sweeting. XVIII
  • O fly not loue, O fly not mee. XIX
  • Who prostrate lyes at womens feet. XX
  • Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI
Orianaes farewell.
  • Hark, heare you not a heauenly harmony. XXII
Songs to 6. voices.
  • Deare, if you wish my dying. XXIII
  • Faire Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XXV
  • Thirsis, Thirsis on his faire Phillis. XXVI
  • Merely my loue and I. XXVII
  • Musick some thincks no Musick is. XXVIII
FINIS.

TO MY HONORABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir VVilliam Norres Knight of the honorable order of the Bath: Thomas Bate­son wisheth long lyfe, health and happinesse, with increase of honor.

SYR, I am bould to present vnto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you haue heeretofore (rather for your exceeding loue to mee, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) giuen them your priuate applause & liking, when I sent them to you euer as they were composed in loose papers, so you wil much more now, (for now in-deed when they come to the worlds eye and censure, they had more need of it then euer) Vouchsafe to giue them your good countenance and publick patronage. In trueth I must confesse, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & finde no place so fit to light on as on the braun­ches of your fauour: where (such is your loue to mee and Musick) I hope they wilbe so shrou­ded in the leaues of your good liking, that you will giue leaue neither to any rauenous Kite nor craftie fowler (I meane neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more slie detractor) to deuoure, or harme them, that cannot succor nor shift for themselues. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your eares with the choisest of delight­full Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not passe without delight, if they might yeeld it to you. But whatsoeuer they are, yours they are, & for you onely they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage mee to this; Your loue to Musick doth not onely chalenge it of mee, but euen the vttermost that Musicks art can afford; which if it were in mee, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate indeuours be accepted, since this is all that I can performe: except the honoring of your Vertues, and obseruance of your worthinesse.

Yours in all loue and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.

This song should haue bene printed in the set of Orianaes.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] WHen Oriana: By Flora faire and sweetest flowers were strone, by ij. by ij. by ij. A long the way for her to tread vpon. The trees did blossom, Siluer riuers ran, the ij. The wind did gently play, the ij. vp­on her fan: And then for to delight her graces eare, her graces eare, The woods a temple seemd, the birds a quire. the birds a quire. the woods ij. the birds a quire. Then sang the sheperds and Nimphs of Di╌a╌na, and ij. and ij. and ij. and ij. Long liue faire O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. Long liue faire O╌ri╌a╌na. Long liue faire O╌ri╌a╌na.

VII.

Of 4. voc. TENOR.

[...] WHether so fast, see how the kindly flowers perfume the Ayre, perfume ij. & all to make thee stay: The climbing woodbind clipping all these bowers, clipping ij. clips thee likewise: clips ij. for feare thou passe a╌way. for ij. Fortune our friend, our foe will not gain­say. our foe ij. Stay but a while, Phaebe no teltale is: Shee her Endimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse. She her ij. I will my Phaebe kisse. stay but a while, Phaebe no teltale is, shee her Endimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse. She her ij. I will my Phaebe kisse.

VIII.

Of 4. voc. TENOR.

[...] DAme Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hād with spear and shield. with ij. Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field, he cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hand with speare and shield. with ij. The roaring Canons thunder out, thun╌der out, ij. such terrours as not fit: a tender Impe of your regard, which dalling still doth sit. which ij. doth sit. which ij. which ij. which ij.

IX.

Of 4. voc. TENOR.

[...]DOwne from aboue falls Ioue in rayne, falls ij. into faire Danaes lap amaine: into ij. into ij. Thereat shee starts, thereat, yet Lam like still: Lamb╌like still: At last performeth all his will. at last ij. performeth ij. With hie and low such golden guifts, such ij. such ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will ij. will put their conscience to the shift. their ij.

X.

Of 4. voc. TENOR.

[...] A Dew sweet loue, a dew, a ij. A dew, a dew, O thus to part, kills my bleeding hart: O thus ij. O ij. my blee╌ding hart: Yet fates alas, will haue it so, will ij. yet ij. yet ij. Cruell their dome, cruell ij. so to de­cree: at once to part two louers true. at once ij. But since we needs must part, but ij. wee ij. once againe, once ij. a dew sweet hart. a dew sweet hart. a dew, a dew, a dew sweet hart, a dew sweet hart.

XI.

Of 4 voc. TENOR.

[...] IF loue be blind, how hath he then the sight, the sight, how hath he ij. with beauties beames my carelesse hart to wound: to wound: my ij. Or if a boy, how hath he then the might, how ij. the might, how ij. The mightiest conquerors to bring to ground. to bring to ground. the mightiest ij. O no he is not blind, but I that leese my thought, the wayes that bring to restlesse feares: my ij. nor yet a boy, nor ij. but I that liue in dread, that ij. mixed with hope, and seeke for ioy in teares. for ij. mixed with hope, and seeke for ioy in teares.

XII.

Of 4. voc. TENOR.

[...] PHillis farewell, I may no longer liue: I may ij. Yet if I dye, yet ij. faire Phillis I forgiue: faire ij. I liue to long, I ij. come gentle death and end: come ij. my endlesse torments or my griefe amend my griefe amend. my endlesse ij. my end╌ij. I liue to long, I liue ij. Come gentle death & end: come gentle ij. my endlesse torment, or my griefe amend. my griefe amend. my endlesse ij. my endlesse ij.

Heere endeth the songs of .4 parts.

XIII.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...]THose sweet delightful Lillies, which nature gaue my Hhillis: my Phillis: which nature ij. which na: ij. Those sweet delightful Lillies, which na: ij. my Phillis: which na: ij. which na: ij. Ay mee, ij. ij. Ay mee, my Phillis each houre makes mee to lan╌guish: to lan╌guish: So greeuous is my paine and an╌guish. So ij. So ij. and an╌guish. So ij. Ay mee, ij. ij. Ay mee, my Phillis, each houre makes mee to lan╌guish. to lan╌guish. So greeuous is my paine and an╌guish. So ij. So ij. and an╌guish. So greeuous is my paine & an╌guish.

XIIII.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...]AND must I needs depart then, And ij. can pittie none come nye her: can ij. can ij. come nye her: can ij. come nie her: farewell, fare╌ij. fare╌ij. farewell alas desert then, farewel ij. farewel ij. O break asunder hart, to satis╌fie her. O ij. O ij. to satisfie her. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. farewel, ij. ij. farewel alas desert then, farewel ij. fare╌ij. O break a╌sunder hart, to satis╌fie her. O ij. O ij. to satisfie her. to ij. to ij. to ij. to satisfie her.

XV.

Of 5. voc. The first part. TENOR.

[...] SWeet Gemma, O then ij. I said the best, I ij. best, the best, but thou a╌las, a╌las, ij. ij. a­las, a╌las sweet, thou dost not regard my vow, goe goe let me not see, goe ij. goe ij. goe ij. Cruell though fairest thee, fairest thee, cru╌ij. cru╌ij. though fairest thee. cru╌ell though fairest thee.

XVI.

Of 5. voc. The second part. TENOR.

[...] YEt stay alway, yet ij, yet ij. bee chained to my hart, bee ij. with links of loue, with ij. of loue, with ij. that wee doe ne╌uer part. then Ile not call thee Serpent, Tiger cru╌ell, (O) Ti╌ger cru╌ell, but my sweet Gemma, but my ij. and my dearest Iu╌ell. but my ij. Gem­ma, but my ij. and my dearest Iuell. dearest Iuell.

XVII.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...] STrange were the life, strange ij. strange ij. strange were the life, that eue╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, that should ij. each one, rare were the Iemme, rare were the Iemme, that euerie one would seeke, that ij. and little little worth, and ij. and lit╌tle ij. and lit╌tle ij. that all would let a╌lone, that all ij. sweet were the meat, ij. that eue╌rie one wou ld chuse, and sowre the sause, and ij. and ij. and ij. and ij. that all men would re╌fuse. refuse.

XVIII.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...]ALas, ij. where is my Loue? where is my sweeting? That hath stolne away my hart, God send vs meeting: meeting: that renuing my la­ment, that ij. with friendly greeting, with ij. She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. she ij. But if my sight she flie, till hartles I die, till ij. My grieued ghost with shrikes & dreadful crying, & ij. shal murmure out complayning, to be reueng'd of all her deep disdayning. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. her deep disdaining.

XIX.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...] O Flie not Loue, O flie not me, O flie not loue, ô flie not mee, O flie not loue, O flie not mee, O flie not me, not mee: stay but a while, but ij. but ij. but ij. O stay thee, stay but a while, but ij. but ij. O stay thee, & heare a wretch complai­ning, and ij. his griefe through thy disdai╌ning: O do not thus, do not thus vnfriendly vse mee, O doe not thus vnfriendly, doe not thus vn╌friendlie vse mee, O doe not thus, doe not thus vnfriendly vse mee, to kisse mee once & so re╌fuse mee. to kisse ij. to kisse ij. and so re╌fuse mee.

XX.

Of 5 voc. TENOR.

[...] WHo prostrate lies at Womens feete, at ij. & cals them darlings deare and sweet, and ij. and cales ij. and sweet, and cales them darlings deare and sweet, deare and sweet, and crauing grace, And prai╌sing oft, and ij. and ij. a foo╌lish face, a ij. are oftentimes deceiu'd at last, Then catch at naught and hould it fast. then ij. and haold it fast. Are oftentimes deceiu'd at last, Then catch at naught and hould it fast. Then ij. and hould it fast.

XXI.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...] SIster a╌wake, &c. The day her light disclo­ses, and the bright morning, doth a­rise, doth a╌rise. Out of her bed of Ro­ses, her ij. See, See the cleere sunne, the worlds bright Eie, in at our window peeping: in ij. in ij. Loe how hee blusheth, to espie, to espie, vs, I╌dle wenches sleeping, vs I╌dle ij. therfore awake make hast I saye, and let vs without staying, all in our gownes of greene so gaye, in╌to the Parke a╌maying, in╌to ij. in╌to ij. a may╌ing in╌to ij. in╌to ij. maying.

XXII.

Of 5. voc. TENOR.

[...]HArke, heare you not a heauenly harmonie, a heauenly harmony, Ist Ioue think you, that plaies, that plaies vpon the Sphers? heauens, ij. Heauens is not this, is not this, heauens is not this, is not this a heauen╌ly melodie, Wher Ioue himself a part, wher ij. wher ij. a part. in Musick bears, hark, how all doe ioyne together in the praise, Of O╌rianaes life and happie daies. of ij. her life and happie daies. Then sing ye shepherds & Nimphs of Di­a╌na, then ij. then ij. In heauen liues O╌ri╌a╌na, liues Oria╌na, in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. O╌ri╌a╌nae.

Heere endeth the songs of 5. parts.

XXIII.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] DEare, if you wish, if you wish my dying, Deare, ij. my dying, in vaine your wish redownds, in vaine your prayer, for can he dye that breathes not vitall ayer: that ij. that ij. that ij. that breathes not vital ayer: Then with those eyes that slew mee, new lyfe infuseing, renew mee: renew mee, re╌ij. re╌ij. re­new mee: so shall we both obtaine, obtaine our wished pleasure, our ij. you my death ioy╌ing, and I my lyfes sweet treasure. and ij. and ij. and ij. and I my lyfes sweet trea╌sure.

XXIIII.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] FAire He╌be, when dame Flora meets, dame ij. dame ij. shee trips. and leapes shee ij. shee trips ij. as gallants doe, as ij. Vp to the hills & down againe, & down a­gaine, to the vallaies runs she too and fro: runs shee too and fro: runs ij. & fro: But out alas, but out a╌las, but out a╌las, a╌las, with cark & care, and care: Peace, peace, laugh no more, let prancks goe by, let ij. let ij. let ij. slow crauling age, forbids such ware. such ware. crauling age forbids such ware.

XXV.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] PHillis farewell I may no longer liue, no longer liue: Yet if I dye, yet ij. faire Phillis I forgiue, faire ij. faire ij. I liue to long, come gentle death & end: come ii. and end: come gentle ij. My endlesse torment or my griefe a╌mend. my griefe a╌mend. my ij. or my griefe a╌mend. or my ij. or my ij. my griefe a╌mend.

XXVI.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] THirsis, Thir╌sis, on his faire Phillis brest reposing, Sweetly did languish, did lan╌guish, when shee in loues sweet anguish, him kissing gently said thus, said thus with sugred glosing, Thir╌sis O tell me thy true loue best a­prooued, thy ij. Art not thou, ij. ij. my be╌loued, Then hee, ij. which to her hart was euer nee╌rest, was ij. kist her againe, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy deerest. Yes, yes La╌dy dee╌rest, Yes, yes La­dy, deerest. Then hee, ij. which to her hart was euer nee╌rest, was ij. kist her a­gaine, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy deerest. Yes, ij. dee╌rest. yes, yes ij. deerest.

XXVII.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] MErely my: Vpon the plaines were sporting, ij. weare sporting, were ij. chearfully the Nimphs and Faunes, the ij. the ij. oft times to vs resorted, oft ij. sorrow did not vs assaile, wee tasted of each pleasure, happie those ij. that may with vs haue part of loues rich treasure. of loues ij. haue part ij. happie those, hap╌ij. that may with vs haue part, of loues rich treasure. of loues ij. haue part ij. trea╌sure.

XXVIII.

Of 6. voc. TENOR.

[...] MVsicke some thinke no Musicke is, Vnlesse shee sing of clip and kisse, vnlesse shee sing of clip and kisse, vn­lesse shee sing of clip and kisse, of clip and kisse, vnlesse ij. And bring to wanton tunes fie fie, to wanton tunes fie fie, fie sie, Or ticha tacha, or tihha ta╌ha, or ile crie, or ile crie, or tih: ij. ile crie, But let, but let such rimes no more disgrace, but ij. but ij. Musicke sprung of heauenly race. Musick ij. Musicke sprung of heauenly race of heauenly race.

FINIS.
BASSVS.The firſt ſet …

BASSVS.

The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.

Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practicioner in the Art of Musicke, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the Citie of Chester.

1604.

IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.

THE TABLE.

Of 6. voc.

  • When Oriana walkt to take the ayer:
    This Song was sent to late, and should haue been printed in the set of Orianaes: but being a work of this author, I haue placed it before this set of his Songs.
Songs to 3. voices.
  • BEautie is a louely sweet. I
  • Loue would discharge the dutie of his hart. II
  • The Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringeth. III
  • Aye mee, my mistresse scornes my loue. IIII
  • Come follow mee faire Nymphes. V
  • Your shining eyes and golden haire. VI
Songs to 4. voices.
  • Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowres. VII
  • Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe. VIII
  • Downe from aboue falls Ioue in rayne. IX
  • A due sweet loue, A due. X
  • If loue bee blinde, how hath hee then the sight. XI
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XII
Songs to 5. voices.
  • Those sweet delightfull Lillies. XIII
  • And must I needs depart then. XIIII
  • Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV
  • Yet stay alway, be chained to my hart. Second part. XVI
  • Strange were the life that euery man would like. XVII
  • Alas where is my loue, where is my sweeting. XVIII
  • O fly not loue, O fly not mee. XIX
  • Who prostrate lyes at womens feet. XX
  • Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI
Orianaes farewell.
  • Hark, heare you not a heauenly harmony. XXII
Songs to 6. voices.
  • Deare, if you wish my dying. XXIII
  • Faire Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XXV
  • Thirsis, Thirsis on his faire Phillis. XXVI
  • Merely my loue and I. XXVII
  • Musick some thincks no Musick is. XXVIII
FINIS.

TO MY HONORABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir VVilliam Norres Knight of the honorable order of the Bath: Thomas Bate­son wisheth long lyfe, health and happinesse, with increase of honor.

SYR, I am bould to present vnto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you haue heeretofore (rather for your exceeding loue to mee, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) giuen them your priuate applause & liking, when I sent them to you euer as they were composed in loose papers, so you wil much more now, (for now in-deed when they come to the worlds eye and censure, they had more need of it then euer) Vouchsafe to giue them your good countenance and publick patronage. In trueth I must confesse, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & finde no place so fit to light on as on the braun­ches of your fauour: where (such is your loue to mee and Musick) I hope they wilbe so shrou­ded in the leaues of your good liking, that you will giue leaue neither to any rauenous Kite nor craftie fowler (I meane neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more slie detractor) to deuoure, or harme them, that cannot succor nor shift for themselues. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your eares with the choisest of delight­full Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not passe without delight, if they might yeeld it to you. But whatsoeuer they are, yours they are, & for you onely they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage mee to this; Your loue to Musick doth not onely chalenge it of mee, but euen the vttermost that Musicks art can afford; which if it were in mee, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate indeuours be accepted, since this is all that I can performe: except the honoring of your Vertues, and obseruance of your worthinesse.

Yours in all loue and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.

This song should haue ben printed in the set of Orianaes.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] WHen Oriana: By Flora faire and sweetest flowers were strone, by Flora ij. were strone, A long the way for her to tread vpon: The trees did blossom, siluer riuers ran, The wind did gently play vpon her fan: And then for to delight her graces eare, and then ij. The woods a temple seemd, the birds a quire, The woods ij. Then sang the Shepherds and Nimphs of Di╌a╌na, and ij. and Nimphs of Di╌a╌na, Long liue faire O╌ri╌a╌na╌faire O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. faire O╌ri╌a╌na.

I.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] BEautie is a louely sweet, where pure white & crimson meet: where ij. Beautie is a louely sweet, where pure white and crimson meet: where ij. Ioyn'd with fauour of the face, chiefest flour of femall race: chiefest ij. Oh chiefest flour of fe­mall race. But if vertue might be seene, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine, it would more, it ij. it ij. it would more delight ye eine. But if vertue might be seene, but ij. it wold more, it ij. delight the eine, it would more, it ij. it ij. it ij. delight the eine.

II.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] LOue would discharge the dutie of his hart, in beauties praise, whose greatnesse doth denie, words to his thoughts, words ij. and thoughts to his desert: and ij. which high conceipt since nothing can supply, which ij. conceipt which ij. since nothing can supply, Loue heere constraind through conquest to confesse: bids silence sigh that tongue cannot ex­presse bids ij. bids ij. that tongue cannot expresse, that ij. Loue heere constraind through conquest to confesse: bids silence sigh that tongue cannot ex­presse: bids ij. bids ij. that tongue cannot expresse. that ij.

III.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] THe Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringeth, bring­eth, so ij. bringeth: vnto her rested sence, a perfect waking: a ij. vnto ij. while late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth: Sings out her woes, sings ij. a thorne her song booke ma­king, and mournfully bewayling, bewayling, and ij. bewayling, her throat in tunes expresseth, what griefe her brest oppresseth. what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij. what griefe her brest oppresseth.

IIII.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] AYe mee, ij. ij. ij. Aye mee, my mistris scornes my loue, my loue, I feare shee will most cruell proue: I ij. she wil most cruel proue: Aye me: ij I weep, I sigh, I greeue & groane I ij. I weepe, I sigh, I greeue and groane, yet shee regardeth not my moane: my moane, then loue adew: ij. ij. ij. adew it fits not mee, to weepe for her that laughs at thee. to ij. to ij. to ij. to weepe for her, that laughs at thee. Loue, I loue, but I Loue kild the deere.

V.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] COme follow mee faire Nymphs, come ij. hie run a pase, hie ij. hie ij. hie ij. Diana hunting honoreth honoreth this chase: Dia╌na ij. softlie, soft­lie for feare her game we rowse, we rowse; softlie ij. we rowse: lodgd in this groue of briers & bowes. Hark how the huntsmen, how ij. winds their hornes, see how the deere, see how the deere mounts ore the thornes: the black ij. ij. O ho O ho he pincht thee ther, Gowen ran wel, oh Gowen ij. oh ij. but I Loue kild the deere, ye blacke. ij. ij. O ho O ho he pincht thee ther, Go­wen ran wel, oh Gowen ij. oh Gowen ranwell, but I Loue kild the deere: but I

VI.

Of 3. voc. BASSVS.

[...] YOur shining eies and gowlden haire, your Lillie rosed lipps most faire: your ij. your other beauties that excell, your ij. men can not chuse, but like them well. ij men ij but when for them, they say theile die: ij. beleeue them not they doe but lie. be ij. be ij. they do but lie. but when for them, they say theile die: ij. beleeue them not they doe but lie. be ij. be ij. they doe but lie.

Heere endeth the songs of 3. parts.

VII.

Of 4. voc. BASSVS.

[...] WHether so fast: The climbing woodbind clipping all these bowers, clipping ij. clips thee likewise: for feare thou passe a╌way. Our foe will not gainsay, will ij. Stay but a while, Shee her Endimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse, I will my Phaebe kisse: Stay but a while, shee her Endimion, Ile my Phaebe kisse: I will my Phaebe kisse.

VIII.

Of 4. voc. BASSVS.

[...] DAme Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field: hee cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hand with speare and shield. Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe, for Mars is gon toth' field: hee cannot tend sweet loues embrace, in hand with speare and shield. The roring Canons thun╌der out ij. out: such terrours as not fit: a ten╌der Impe of your regard, which dalling still doth sit. which ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit.

IX.

Of 4. voc. BASSVS.

[...] DOwne from aboue, falls Ioue in rayne, in╌to faire Danaes lap amaine: into ij. shee starts thereat, yet Lamb╌like still, Lamb╌like still, at last performeth all his will. his will. Both hie and low such golden guifts, such: ij. will put their conscience to their shifts. will put their conscience to their shifts. their conscience to their shifts.

X.

Of 4. voc. BASSVS.

[...] A Dew a dew, sweet loue, a dew, O thus to part, kills my bleeding hart: kills ij. Yet fates a╌las, will haue it so, yet ij. Cruell their dome so to de╌cree, at once to part, to part at once, to part two louers true. But since wee needs must part, wee needs must part, once againe, once againe, once a­gaine, a dew sweet hart. a dew, sweet hart.

XI.

Of 4 voc. BASSVS.

[...] IF loue be blind, how hath he then the sight, the sight, with beauties beames, my carelesse hart to wound: my care╌ij: Or if a boy, how hath he then the might, how ij. the might, the mighti'st conquerors to bring to ground. the ij. to bring to ground. O no he is not blind, but I that leese, but ij. my thoughts, the wayes that bring to restlesse feares: Nor yet a boy, nor ij. but I that liue in dread, mixed with hope, and seeke for ioy in teares. for ij. and seeke for ioy in teares.

XII.

Of 4. voc. BASSVS.

[...] PHillis, fare well, I may no longer liue, I may ij. Yet if I dye, yet ij. faire Phillis I forgiue: I liue to long, come gentle death and end, my endlesse torment, or my griefe amend. my endlesse ij. my endlesse torment, or my griefe amend. I liue to long, Come gentle death & end, my endlesse torment, or my griefe, a╌mend. my endlesse ij. or my ij. my endlesse torment, or my griefe a╌mend.

Heere endeth the songs of 4 parts.

XIII.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] THose sweet: &c. Which nature gaue my Phillis: which ij. which nature gaue, which ij. my Phillis: which nature gaue my Phil╌lis, which ij. which ij. which ij. my Phillis, Aye mee, ij. my Phil╌lis, each houre makes mee to languish: So greeuous is my paine and anguish: So ij, my paine, my paine and anguish. Ay mee, ij. my Phillis, each houre makes mee to lan╌guish: So greeuous is my paine, and anguish. So ij. my paine, my paine and anguish.

XIIII.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...]AND must I needs depart then, And ij. can pittie none come nye her: can ij. can ij. farewell, ij. farewell, alas deseart then, farewell, ij. farewell, alas fare­well alas, alas deseart then: O break a╌sunder heart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O break ij. to sa╌tisfie her. to satis╌fie her, to sa╌tis╌fie her, farewel, farewel, farewel, alas desert then, farewel alas deseart then, farewel, a­las farewel, a╌las a╌las deseart then, O break asunder hart, to satis╌fie her. O ij. to sa╌tis╌fie her, to satisfie her, to sa╌tis╌fie her.

XV.

Of 5. voc. The first part. BASSVS.

[...] SWeet Gemma, &c. O then, O then, I said, the best I ij. the best, but thou alas, alas, a╌las, a╌las, a las, sweet, thou dost not regard my vow, goe, goe, let mee not see, goe, goe ij. let mee not see, Cru­ell though fayrest thee. Cru╌ell ij. fay╌rest thee.

XVI.

Of 5. voc. The second part. BASSVS.

[...] YEt stay alway, Yet stay alway, yet stay alway, yet stay alway, bee chained to my heart, with links of loue, with links of loue, that wee doe neuer part: Then Ile not call thee Serpent, Tiger cruell, (O) Ti╌ger cruell, but my sweet Gemma, and my deerest Iuell. but my sweet Gem╌ma, and my dearest Iu╌ell.

XVII.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] STrange were the life, strange, strange were the life, that eu'╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, rare were the Iemme, rare were ij. that euerie one would seeke, would seeke, and little lit╌tle worth, and little ij. and little ij. that all would let a╌lone, sweet were the meat, sweet ij. that eue╌rie one would choose, and sowre the sause, and ij. and sower ij. that all men would re╌fuse.

XVIII.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] ALas, where is my Loue? where is my sweeting? That hath stolne away my hart, meeting: meeting: that renuing my lament, with friendly greeting, She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. But if my sight she flie, till hartles I die, till ij. My grieued ghost with shrikes & dreadful cry╌ing, and dreadful crying, & dreadful ij. shal murmure out complayning, to be reueng'd of her dis­dayning▪ to bee reueng'd of all her deepe disdayning, to ij. deepe disdayning to bee reueng'd of all her deepe disdaining.

XIX.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] O Flie not Loue, O flie not mee, O flie not loue, O flie not mee, O flie not mee, stay but a while, but a while, but a while, but ij. but ij. but a while, Oh stay thee, & heare a wretch complai╌ning, and ij. his griefe through thy disdai╌ning: O do not thus, do not thus vnfriendly vse mee, doe not thus vnfriendly vse mee, O doe not thus, doe not thus, ij. vnfriendly vse mee, to kisse mee once and so re╌fuse mee. to kisse mee once, and so re╌fuse mee.

XX.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] WHo prostrate lies at Womens feete, at ij. & cals them darlings deare and sweet, and ij. and calls ij. and calls them darlings deare and sweet, and crauing grace, And prai╌sing oft, and prai╌sing oft, a foolish face, and praising oft, a foo╌lish face, are of╌ten times deceiu'd at last, then catch at naught and hould it fast. are often times deceiu'd at last, then catch at naught and hould it fast.

XXI.

Of 5. voc. BASSVS.

[...] SIster awake &c. See, see See the cleere Sunne, the worlds bright Eie, in at our window peeping: in at ij. Loe how he blusheth, to espie vs idle wenches sleeping, vs idle wenches slee╌ping, therfore a╌wake make hast I say, and let vs without stay­ing, into the Parke a Maying. into ij. in╌to the Park a Maying, a Maying.

XXII.

Of 5 voc. Orianaes farewell. BASSVS.

[...] HArk, heare you not a heauenly harmony, a ij. Ist Ioue think you that plaies, that plaies, that plaies vp╌on the Spheares, Heauens, heauens is not this, heauens ij. heauenly melo╌die, Where Ioue himselfe a part in Mu╌sick beares, a part in Musick beares, hark, how all doe ioyne together in the praise, Of O╌ri╌anaes life and happie daies. of ij. Then sing ye shep­heards and Nimphs of Di╌a╌na, and Nimphs of Di╌a╌na, then ij. In heauen liues O╌ri╌a╌na. in ij. in ij. in ij. In heauen liues O╌ri╌ana▪ in ij. in ij.

Heere endeth the songs of 5. parts.

XXIII.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] DEare if you wish, if you wish my dying, Deare, ij. In vaine your wish redownds, in ij. in vaine your prayer, for can hee die, that breath's not vitall ayer? that ij. that ij. Then with those eyes that slew mee, then ij. new lyfe in╌fuseing, renew me: renew mee: So shall we both obtaine our wished pleasure, our ij. you my death ioying, and I my lifes sweet treasure. and ij. and I and I my lyfes sweet treasure. my lifes sweet treasure.

XXIIII.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] FAire He╌be, when dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, shee trips & leaps, shee ij. shee ij. as gallants doe, she ij. as gallants doe: Vp to the hils, and down againe, vp to ij. to the vallaies runs shee too & fro, runs she too and fro: too and fro, runs shee too and froe. But out a╌las, but out ij. alas, with cark & care, with ij. Peace, laugh no more, no more, let prancks goe by, let ij. let ij. slow crauling age, for╌bids such ware. slow crauling ij. forbids such ware.

XXV.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] PHillis farewell I may no longer liue, I may no longer liue, Yet if I dye, if I dye, faire Phillis I forgiue: faire ij. faire ij. I liue to long, come gentle death and end, come ij. and end, come ij. my end╌les torment, or my grief amend. my endlesse ij. my endlesse ij. or my griefe a mend. my griefe amend. or my ij. a╌mend. my griefe a╌mend.

XXVI.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, on his faire Phillis brest re­posing, sweetly did lan╌guish, sweetly ij. did languish, when she in loues sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, him kis: ij. Thir­sis O tell me, thy true loue best aprooued, thy true ij. art not thou, art not thou my beloued: Then hee which to her hart was e╌uer neerest: kist her againe, & said, kist her againe, and said, and sayd, Yes, yes, yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest▪ yes, yes ij Then hee which to her hart was e╌uer neerest: kist her againe, and said, kist her againe and said, and said, yes yes, yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. yes, yes, La╌dy deerest.

XXVII.

Of 6 voc. BASSVS.

[...] MErely &c. Vpon the plains were sporting, were spor╌ting, chearfully the Nimphs & Faunes, the Nimphs and Faunes, oft times to vs resorted, to vs resor╌ted, sorrow did not vs assaile, assaile, assayle, we tasted of each pleasure. happie those that may with vs haue part of loues rich treasure. rich treasure. happie those that may with vs haue part of loues, rich treasure. rich treasure.

XXVIII.

Of 6. voc. BASSVS.

[...] MV╌sick some think no Mu╌sick is, vnlesse she sing of clip & kisse, vnlesse ij. And bring to wanton tunes fie fie, or tihha tah╌ha, or ile crye: or tihha ij. or tihha ij. or ile crye: But let, but let such rimes no more disgrace, such ij. Musick sprung of heauenly race. Musick ij. of heauenly race. of heauenly race.

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QVINTVS.The firſt ſe …

QVINTVS.

The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.

Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practicioner in the Art of Musicke, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the Citie of Chester.

1604.

IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.

THE TABLE.

Of 6. voc.

  • When Oriana walkt to take the ayer:
    This Song was sent to late, and should haue been printed in the set of Orianaes: but being a work of this author, I haue placed it before this set of his Songs.
Songs to 3. voices.
  • BEautie is a louely sweet. I
  • Loue would discharge the dutie of his hart. II
  • The Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringeth. III
  • Aye mee, my mistresse scornes my loue. IIII
  • Come follow mee faire Nymphes. V
  • Your shining eyes and golden haire. VI
Songs to 4. voices.
  • Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowres. VII
  • Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe. VIII
  • Downe from aboue falls Ioue in rayne. IX
  • Adue sweet loue, Adue. X
  • If loue bee blinde, how hath hee then the sight. XI
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XII
Songs to 5. voices.
  • Those sweet delightfull Lillies. XIII
  • And must I needs depart then. XIIII
  • Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV
  • Yet stay alway, be chained to my hart. Second part. XVI
  • Strange were the life that euery man would like. XVII
  • Alas where is my loue, where is my sweeting. XVIII
  • O fly not loue, O fly not mee. XIX
  • Who prostrate lyes at womens feet. XX
  • Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI
Orianaes farewell.
  • Hark, heare you not a heauenly harmony. XXII
Songs to 6. voices.
  • Deare, if you wish my dying. XXIII
  • Faire Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII
  • Phillis farewell, I may no longer liue. XXV
  • Thirsis, Thirsis on his faire Phillis. XXVI
  • Merely my loue and I. XXVII
  • Musick some thincks no Musick is. XXVIII
FINIS.

TO MY HONORABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir VVilliam Norres Knight of the honorable order of the Bath: Thomas Bate­son wisheth long lyfe, health and happinesse, with increase of honor.

SYR, I am bould to present vnto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you haue heeretofore (rather for your exceeding loue to mee, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) giuen them your priuate applause & liking, when I sent them to you euer as they were composed in loose papers, so you wil much more now, (for now in-deed when they come to the worlds eye and censure, they had more need of it then euer) Vouchsafe to giue them your good countenance and publick patronage. In trueth I must confesse, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & finde no place so fit to light on as on the braun­ches of your fauour: where (such is your loue to mee and Musick) I hope they wilbe so shrou­ded in the leaues of your good liking, that you will giue leaue neither to any rauenous Kite nor craftie fowler (I meane neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more slie detractor) to deuoure, or harme them, that cannot succor nor shift for themselues. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your eares with the choisest of delight­full Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not passe without delight, if they might yeeld it to you. But whatsoeuer they are, yours they are, & for you onely they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage mee to this; Your loue to Musick doth not onely chalenge it of mee, but euen the vttermost that Musicks art can afford; which if it were in mee, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate indeuours be accepted, since this is all that I can performe: except the honoring of your Vertues, and obseruance of your worthinesse.

Yours in all loue and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.

This song should haue ben printed in the set of Orianaes.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...]WHen O╌ria╌na walkt to take the aier, The world did striue to entertain so faire, the ij. the ij. did striue to entertain so faire. By Flora faire & sweetest flowers were strone, by ij. were strone, by ij. A long the way for her to tread vpon: for ij. The trees did blossom, siluer riuers ran, the ij. The wind did gently play vp­on her fan: And then for to delight her graces eare, The woods a temple seemd, the birds a quire the birds a quire the woods ij. the birds a quire. Then sang the sheperds & Nimphs of Diana, and ij. and ij. and ij. Long liue faire Oriana. Long ij. O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. faire Ori╌a╌na.

XIII.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] THose sweet delightfull Lillies, which nature gaue, which ij. which nature gaue my Phil╌lis, which ij. which nature gaue my Phil╌lis, Those sweet delightfull Lillies, which nature gaue my Phillis, which ij. ij. ij. Aye mee, ij. Aye mee my Phillis, each houre makes mee to lan╌guish. So grieuous is my paine, my paine and anguish, so ij. so ij. Aye mee, ij. ij. ij. my Phil╌lis, each houre makes mee to languish, makes ij. So grieuous is my paine and anguish, so grieuous is my, paine, so ij. so ij. and anguish.

XIIII.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...]AND must I needs depart then, And ij. and must ij. and must ij. can pit╌tie none come nye her: can ij. can ij. can ij. nie her, farewell, ij. farewell, alas deseart then, farewell, ij. farewell alas, deseart then: O break a╌sunder hart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O ij. O breake ij. to sa╌tisfie her. to ij. to sa╌tisfie her, to ij. farewel, ij. ij. alas, deseart the, deseart then, farewel alas ij. farewel ij. O break asūder hart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O break ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij.

XV.

Of 5. voc. The first part. QVINTVS.

[...] SWeet Gemma, when I first beheld thy beautie, thy beau╌tie, I vou'd thee seruice, I ij. I ij. I ij. honour, loue, and deutie: ho ij. ho ij. O then, O then, I said the best, I ij. the best, is hi╌ther come to make mee blest, to ij. but thou alas, a╌las, a╌las, a╌las, a╌las, sweet, thou dost not regard, dost not regard my vow's, goe, goe, let mee not see, goe, goe, let mee goe, goe ij. goe ij. let mee not see, goe, goe, ij. let mee not see, Cru╌ell though fayrest thee. fayrest thee, Cru╌ell ij. cru╌ell though fay╌rest thee.

XVI.

Of 5. voc. The second part. QVINTVS.

[...] YEt stay alway, yet ij, yet stay al­way, bee chained to my hart, with links of loue, that wee doe neuer part. with links ij. then Ile not call thee Serpent, Tiger cru╌ell, then ij. (O) Ti╌ger cru╌ell, but my sweet Gemma, and my dearest Iu╌ell. but my ij. my dearest Iu╌ell. but ij. and my dearest Iu╌ell.

XVII.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] STrange were the life, ij. strange were the life, that e╌ue╌rie man would like, more strange the state, ij. the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, rare were the Iemme, rare were the Iemme, that e╌ue╌rie one would seeke, that ij. would seeke, and little little worth, and ij. and lit╌tle ij. and little ij. that all would let a­lone, sweet were the meat, ij. sweet ij. that eue╌rie one would chuse, and sowre the sause, and ij. and sowre the sause, the sause, that all men would re╌fuse.

XVIII.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...]ALas, ij. where is my Loue? where is my sweeting? where ij. That hath stolne away my hart, my hart, God send vs meeting, god ij. that renu╌ing my lament, ij. with friendly greeting, ij. ij. She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. But if my sight she flie, till hartles I die, till ij. My grieued ghost with shrikes & dreadfull crying, cry╌ing, shrikes ij. alwaies about her fly╌ing, flying, Shal murmure out complayning, to be reueng'd of all her deepe disdayning▪ her ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij.

XIX.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] O Flie not Loue, O flie not me, O flie not loue, ô flie not mee, O flie not loue, O flie not loue, O flie not loue, O flie not mee, stay but a while, but ij. (O) but a while, (O) stay thee, stay ij. but a while, stay ij O stay thee, & heare a wretch complai╌ning, and ij. his griefe through thy dis╌dai╌ning: O doe not thus, do not thus vnfriendly vse mee, O ij. doe ij. O ij. doe ij. O ij. doe ij. to kisse mee once and so re╌fuse mee. & so refuse mee. to ij. refuse mee. to kisse mee once & so re╌fuse mee.

XX.

Of 5 voc. QVINTVS.

[...] WHo prostrate lies at Womens feete, at ij. & cals them darlings deare and sweet, deare and sweet, and ij. and cals them darlings deare and sweet, and ij. and ij. deare and sweet, Protesting loue and crauing grace, And praising oft, and ij. and ij. a foolish face, a ij. Are oftentimes deceiu'd at last, Then catch at naught and hould it fast. then ij. then ij. Are oftentimes deceiu'd at last, Then catch at naught and hould it fast. then ij. it fast, and hould it fast.

XXI.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] SIster awake close not your eies, close not your eies, The day her light discloses, the ij. and the bright morning doth arise, doth a╌rise, Out of her bed of Roses: out ij. her bed of Roses: See, see the cleere Sunne, the worlds bright Eie, the ij. in at our window peeping: in ij. in ij. Loe how he blusheth, to espie vs Idle wenches sleeping, vs Idle ij. slee╌ping. therfore a­wake make hast I say, and let vs without stay╌ing, into the Parke a Maying. into ij. in╌to the Park a Maying. into ij. in╌to ij. a Maying.

XXII.

Of 5. voc. QVINTVS.

[...]HArke, heare you not, heare ij. a heauenly harmony, a ij. a heauenly harmo╌nie, Ist loue think you, that plaies, that plaies, ij. that plaies vpon the Sphears, Heauens is not this, heauens is not this heauenly melody, heauens ij. a heauenly melody, wher loue himselfe a part, wher ij. in Musick beares, a part in Mu╌sick beares, Now comes in a quire of Nightingales, mark, mark how the Nimphs & shephaerds of the dales, how all doe ioyne together in the praise of O╌rianaes life & hap╌pie daies. of O╌ri╌anaes life, of O╌ri╌anaes life & happie daies. Then sing ye sheperds & Nimphs of Dia╌na, then ij. Nimphs of Dia╌na. In heauen liues O╌ri╌a na. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij.

Heere endeth the songs of 5. parts.

XXIII.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS

[...] DEare if you wish my dying, Deare, ij. in vaine your wish redownds, in vaine ij. in vaine your prayer, for can he dye that breaths not vitall ayer? that breaths not vitall ayer? that ij. not vitall ayer? Then with those eyes that slew mee, then ij. new lyfe in╌fuseing, renew me: renew mee: re­new mee: So shall we both ob╌taine our wished pleasure, our ij. you my deat ioy╌ing, and I my lifes sweet treasure▪ and ij. and ij. and I my lyfes sweet treasure. my lifes sweet treasure.

XXIIII.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] FAire He╌be, when dame Flo╌ra meets, dame Flo╌ra meets, dame ij. dame Flo╌ra meets: shee trips & leaps, shee ij. shee ij. as gallants doe, as ij. vp to the hils, and down, and down againe, vp to ij. and downe againe, againe, to the vallaies runs shee too & fro, runs ij. too and fro, but out alas, but out ij. begirds the head, with cark and care, with ij. peace, laugh no more, laugh no more, laugh no more, let prancks goe by, let ij. let ij. let ij. slow crauling age, forbids such ware. slow crauling ij. forbids such ware.

XXV.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] PHillis farewell I may no longer liue, no longer liue, I ij. no longer liue, Yet if I dye, yet ij. faire Phillis I forgiue, faire ij. faire ij. faire Phillis I forgiue, I liue to long, I liue to long, come gentle death and end: come ij. come ij. My endlesse torment or my griefe a╌mend. my end: ij. my end: ij. or my griefe amend. or my griefe amend. my griefe amend. or my griefe, or my griefe, my griefe amend.

XXVI.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, ij. on his faire Phillis brest reposing, sweet­ly did lan╌guish, did languish, when shee in loues sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, said thus, said thus, with sugred glosing, Thirsis O tell me, thy true loue best aprooued, best ij. Art not thou, art ij. my belo╌ued, Then hee, which to her hart was e╌uer nee╌rest. kist her againe, & said, kist ij. and said, Yes, yes yes yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. yes, yes ij. yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. deerest: Then hee, which to her hart was e╌uer nee╌rest, kist her againe, & said, kist ij. and said, Yes, yes yes yes La╌dy deerest. yes yes ij. yes yes La╌dy dee╌rest. deerest.

XXVII.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] MErely &c. Vpon the plaines were spor╌ting, were sporting, were ij. chearfully the Nimphs and Faunes, the ij. the ij. oft times to vs resorted, oft ij. to vs resorted, sorrow did not vs assaile, vs ij. wee tasted of each plea╌sure, happie those that may with vs haue part of loues rich trea╌sure. of loues ij. of loues ij. happie those, ij. that may with vs haue part, of loues rich treasure. haue part ij. of loues rich treasure.

XXVIII.

Of 6. voc. QVINTVS.

[...] MVsick some think no Musick is, Musick ij. vnlesse she sing of clip & kisse, vnlesse she sing: ij. vnlesse ij. vnlesse ij. and bring to wanton tunes fie fie fie fie: and ij or tihha tahha, or ile crye: or tihha ij. or tihha ij. But let, but let such rimes no more disgrace, but let ij. no more disgrace, Musick sprung of heauenly race. Musick ij. Musick sprung of heauenly race.

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