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The first set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5

Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces
Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625)
  
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[XV. Ah deere hart, why doe you rise?]

Ah deere hart, why doe you rise?
The light that shines comes from your eyes,
Thee day breakes not, it is my heart,
To thinke that you and I must part,
O stay, or else my ioyes will dye,
And perish in their infancie.
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