La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays, Etc., Chiefly of the Elizabethan Age; with Remarks and Annotations. By Thomas Oliphant |
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... smiling cheer ; Yet since their eyes make my Hey ho ! Chil * love no more . heart sore , My sheep are lost for want of food , And I so wood † , That all the day I sit and watch a herdmaid gay ; Who laughs to see me sigh so sore : Hey ho ...
... smiling cheer ; Yet since their eyes make my Hey ho ! Chil * love no more . heart sore , My sheep are lost for want of food , And I so wood † , That all the day I sit and watch a herdmaid gay ; Who laughs to see me sigh so sore : Hey ho ...
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... smiles could have contented then , My simple age and ignorance was such : But at the length , experience made me wonder That hearts and tongues did lodge so far asunder . As watermen which on the Thames do row , Look to the east , but ...
... smiles could have contented then , My simple age and ignorance was such : But at the length , experience made me wonder That hearts and tongues did lodge so far asunder . As watermen which on the Thames do row , Look to the east , but ...
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... smiles because merry and given to delights ; hath a quiver to show his power ; is blind , be- cause he sees not where he strikes , & c . 66 66 66 " Petrarch hath a tale of a young gallant that loved a " wench with one eye , and for that ...
... smiles because merry and given to delights ; hath a quiver to show his power ; is blind , be- cause he sees not where he strikes , & c . 66 66 66 " Petrarch hath a tale of a young gallant that loved a " wench with one eye , and for that ...
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... smiling , With soft words of delight and flatt'ring gloses , Full kindly kiss'd his cheek with lips of roses . Music by Giov . Ferretti , 1580 . Morley's Madrigal " Within an arbour , " or Beside a foun- tain as it is originally printed ...
... smiling , With soft words of delight and flatt'ring gloses , Full kindly kiss'd his cheek with lips of roses . Music by Giov . Ferretti , 1580 . Morley's Madrigal " Within an arbour , " or Beside a foun- tain as it is originally printed ...
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... incloses , After so long distress , great grief , and sadness , Doth make me blest above all heart's desiring . Music by L. Quintiani , 1580 . XLIX . Dainty white pearl , and you fresh smiling Now let us make Now, O Now springs each plant.
... incloses , After so long distress , great grief , and sadness , Doth make me blest above all heart's desiring . Music by L. Quintiani , 1580 . XLIX . Dainty white pearl , and you fresh smiling Now let us make Now, O Now springs each plant.
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Anthony Wood Barley-break beauty birds Bonny-boots called catch composed cruel dainty dance dear death dedication delight disdain ditty dost doth drink Earl England's Helicon English eyes Farewell favour fear flowers grace grief happy hath heart honour hope Italian John John Dory JOHN DOWLAND John Wilbye King kiss Knight labours Lady lines Lirum Lord Lordship Love's lovers Luca Marenzio Madrigals Majesty's merry Michael Este mind mirth Morris dance never Nicholas Yonge nymphs pain Phillis pity play pleasure poet poetry praise printed Queen quoth Ravenscroft rest Right Honorable round shepherds sighs sing six voices sleep smiling song sonnet sorrow sport stanza sweet sweetly tears thee thing Thomas Morley THOMAS WEELKES thou toss the pot translation Triumphs of Oriana unto Vide wanton Weelkes weep wherein Wilbye William Byrd words worthy
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Page 282 - My true love hath my heart, and I have his. His heart in me keeps him and me in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: He loves my heart, for once it was his own, I cherish his because in me it bides: My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
Page 206 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is past, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done.
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Page 307 - Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears : Yet slower, yet ; O faintly, gentle springs : List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours...
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Page 253 - Where shall we our breakfast take?" "Downe in yonder greene field, There lies a knight slain under his shield. "His hounds they lie downe at his feete, So well they can their master keepe. "His haukes they flie so eagerly, There's no fowle dare him come nie.
Page 306 - ... go some to the woods and groves, some to the hills and mountains, some to one place, some to another, where they spend all the night in pleasant pastimes, and in the morning they return, bringing with them birch houghs, and lu. nu lir- of trees, to deck their assemblies withal.
Page 229 - Cherry-ripe" themselves do cry. Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row, Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow, Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy Till "Cherry-ripe