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Triplex

Of Songes, for three, fower, and fiue voyces, composed and made by Thomas Whythorne ... the which Songes be of sundry sortes, that is to say, some long, some short, some hard, some easie to be songe, and some betwene both: also some solemne, and some pleasant or mery: so that according to the skill of the singers (not being Musitians) and disposition or delite of the hearers, they may here finde Songes for their contentation and liking. Now newly published. In the Tenor or fift booke, ye shall haue the Preface of the Author, wherein he declareth more at large the contentes of these his fiue bookes

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[The giftes of nature well disposde]

The giftes of nature well disposde, are pleasant to the sight, the like of fortune rule the rost,


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be it in wrong or right: though both or none of these be had, yet to ye giftes of minde, the wise haue the prerogatiue, in all ages assinde, the wise haue the prerogatiue, in all ages assinde.

Tho. VVhyt.