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The first set of Madrigals of 5. Parts

apt both for Viols and Voyces
Lichfild, Henry
  
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[V. Aye me, that life should yet remaine]

Aye me, that life should yet remaine,
When heart and liuing spirits are bereft me,
Aye me, Then thus to liue in paine,
It better were no life at all were left me,
Then die betimes that when my hart returne,
That may dye to, and so I cease to mourne.
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