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Canzonets To Fowre Voyces

With a Song of eight parts

Farnaby, Giles (ca. 1565-1640)

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M. Io. Dowland to the Author.

M. R. Alison in praise of the Author.

M. Hu. Holland to the Author.

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I.

[I. My Ladyes collor'd cheeks]

II.

[II. Carters now cast down your whips]

III.

[III. Philida bewailed the want of Coridon]

IV.

[IV. Daphne on the rainebow]

V.

[V. Blind loue was shooting]

VI.

[VI. Pearce did loue faire Petronel]

VII.

[VII. Pearce did daunce with Petronel]

VIII.

[VIII. The wauering planet]

IX.

[IX. Lady, the sillie flea of all disdained]

X.

[X. Thrice blessed be the giuer]

XI.

[XI. The curtaine drawne I saw my loue]

XII.

[XII. Susanna faire sometime]

XIII.

[XIII. Loue shooting among many]

XIIII.

[XIIII. Loue shooting at an other]

XV.

[XV. Ay me poore hart]

XVI.

[XVI. Sometime she would and sometime not]

XVII.

[XVII. Among the dafadillies]

XVIII.

[XVIII. Simkin said that Sises was faire]

XIX.

[XIX. Ladie when 'I behold your passions]

XX.

[XX. Consture my meaning]

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XXI.

[XXI. Witnesse ye heauens]

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[XVII. Among the dafadillies]

Among the Daffadillies

Among the Daffadillies, and faire white splendant Lillies, the God of loue, the god of loue came creeping, where Dians nimphs lay sleeping, lay sleeping, he bent his bow, he bent his bow, but mist his footing, mist his footing, and loosing lost, both labor shaft and shooting, he bent his bow, but mist his footing, he bent his bow, but mist his footing, and loosing lost both labor shaft and shooting.