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The first set of English Madrigals

To Foure Voices

Farmer, John (fl. 1591-1601)

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I.

[I. You prety flowers that smile for sōmers sake]

II.

[II. Now each creature ioyes the other]

III.

[III. You'le neuer leaue still tossing to and fro]

III.

[III. The first part. Lady my flame still burning]

V.

[V. The second part. Swete Lord your flame]

VI.

[VI. Soone as the hungry Lion seekes his pray]

VII.

[VII. The first part. O Stay swete loue]

VIII.

[VIII. The second part. I Thought my loue that I should ouertake you]

IX.

[IX. Compaire me to the child that playes with fire.]

X.

[X. Who would haue thought that face of thine had beene so full of doublenes]

XI.

[XI. Sweete friend thy absence greeues my bleeding hart]

XII.

[XII. The flattring words, sharpe glosses that men vse]

XIII.

[XIII. Cease now thy mourning & thy sad lamēting]

XIIII.

[XIIII. A Little prety bony lasse was walking in midst of May]

XV.

[XV. Faire Phyllis I saw sitting all alone feeding her flocke]

XVI.

[XVI. Take time while time doth last]

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The first set of English Madrigals

To Foure Voices

John Farmer

fl. 1591-1601

Printed ... by William Barley [etc.]

London

1599