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The Treasury of Musick

Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed

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1.

[The First Book]

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[Ayres for one or two voyces to the Theorbo Lute, or Basse-Viol]

A Lovers Melancholy Repose.

Loves ingratitude.

Cupid's weak Artillery.

Love preferring Virtue above Wealth.

A strife betwixt two Cupids reconciled.

Venus lamenting her lost Adonis.

To his Love Answering No.

On his Loves Absence.

Beauty clouded with grief.

On Loves Artillery.

On the Vicissitudes of Love.

A false designe to be cruel.

Constancy in Love.

On Inconstancy.

On Womens Inconstancy.

A Resolution not to Love.

A Forsaken Lovers Complaint.

At a Masque, to invite the Ladies to Dance.

Loves Scrutiny.

No Beauty without Love.

Delayes in Love breeds Danger.

On Cælia's Coynesse.

Loves sweet Repose.

A Willow Garland sent for a Newyeers-gift.

Diswasion from Presumption.

The Careless Lovers Resolution.

Loves Fruition.

Loves Drollery.

Disdain returned.

To his Forsaken Mistresse.

To a Lady singing.

On a Bleeding Lover.

Two Songs in the Play of The Royal Slave.

Love and Musick.

A Resolution in choice of a Mistresse.

Inconstancy in Love.

Loves Flattery.

Seeming Coyness.

Loves Bachinall.

Platonick Love.

Love Neglected.

Lovers Wantonnesse.

Venus to her Adonis.

Loves Flattery.

Inconstancie in Women.

A Lovers Legacy.

Amintor for his Chloris absence.

Love in a Calme.

Loves Shepherdesse.

Love without Additionals.

A Frozen Heart made warm by Love.

False Love reproved.

Loves torrid Zone.

To his Chloris at Parting.

Coyness in Love.

A Lovers Resolution.

Cupid's Embassage.

Coridon to his Phillis.

On Chloris attractive Beauty.

Clora forsaken, thus complains.

Reciprocal Love.

On Loves deceitful Charmes.

Beauty a fading Ornament.

Beauty in Eclipse.

Cupid detected.

Loves Flattery.

A Motive to Love.

Beauty and Love at ods.

Love admits no Delay.

The Anglers Song.

On Attractive Beauty.

The Jovial Begger.

A Protest against Love.

The Excellency of Wine.

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A Dialogue betwixt Phillis and Clorillo.

A Dialogue between Silvia and Thirsis.

A Dialogue between a Shepherd and Lucinda.

A Dialogue between Daphne and Strephon.

A Dialogue between Shepherd and Shepherdess.

A Dialogue betwixt an Nymph and a Shepherd.

A Dialogue between Strephon and Phillis.

A Dialogue between Venus and Vulcan.

A Dialogue between Charon and Philomel.

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Damon.

A Glee to Bachus with Chorus for Three voyces to be sung between every verse.

A Glee to the Cook.

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[I wish no more thou shouldst love me]

[Though I am young and cannot tell]

Chloris taking the Ayre.

[When Troy Town for ten years]

[From the fair Lavinian Shore]

[Where the Bee sucks there suck I]

[When love with unconfined wings]

[Do not fear to put thy feet]

[In the merry month of May]

[O my Clarissa! thou cruel Fair]

[Gather your Rose buds while you may]

[Fear not, dear Love, that I'le reveal]

[Fine young Folly, though you wear]

[Sing fair Clorinda, Whilst you may]

[Smiths are good fellows]

[Musick, thou Queen of souls get up]

[See the Light bright shine]

[Turn Amarillis to thy Swain]

[Now we are met, let's merry be]

In praise of Musick.

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The Second Book.

To my much Ingenuous Friend Mr. John Playford,

To my Beloved Friend and Fellow Mr. HENRY LAWES,

To my much Honoured Friend, Mr. HENRY LAWES,

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[The Ayres of Mr. Henry Lawes]

A TALE out of Anacreon.

To his Mistres going to SEA.

A Complaint against Cupid.

Beauties Excellency.

To his Mistres upon his going to travel.

Mediocrity in Love rejected.

The Self-Banished.

To his Mistres objecting his Age.

To a Lady, more affable since the War began.

Cloris Singing.

The Unconstant Lover.

Night and day to his Mistres.

To his Mistres.

The Heart Intire.

Love in Despair.

Loves Fruition.

Love in the Spring.

Loves Dying Passion.

On a lost Heart.

Loves Flattery.

Upon the Hearing Mrs. Mary Knight Sing.

The Thrifty Lover.

A Lover on his Dying Mistres.

The Mournful Lovers.

The Nightingale.

Loves Constancy.

Beauties Excellency.

Sympathy in Love.

Mutual affection between Orinda and Lucatia.

Not to be altred from Affection.

Policy in Love.

A Glee at Christmas.

The Power of Love.

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[Ayres for one Voice to the Theorbo or Bass Viol]

A Blackmore Maid wooing a Fair Boy.

The Boys Answer to the Blackmore Maid.

A Sacrificed Heart.

On a Proud Lady.

To an Inconstant Lover.

Loves Constancy.

Unwilling Parting.

The Dying Lover.

Wounded in Love.

Loves Affection.

Cupid's Doomsday.

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Madness in Love.

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II.

III.

Love and Honour.

Cupid's Monarchy.

The Vicissitude of Love.

Loves Hue and Cry.

Cupid's Progress.

Endymion's Dream.

Love admits no Rivall.

Transparent Love.

Love without Flattery.

The Crafty Lover.

Love in a Riddle.

Cassandra in Mourning.

The Desparing Lover.

Cloris Yielding.

On a Crowned Heart.

The Prudent Lover.

The Humorous Lover.

Lukewarmness in Love.

The Triumphs of Death.

Venus Hue and Cry after Cupid.

Cupid Embraced.

On a Stolen Heart.

A Despairing Lover.

On the soft and gentle Motions of Eudora.

The Dying Lover.

An old Knight to a young Lady.

To a Friend who desired no more then to admire the Mind, and the Beauty of Silvia.

The Earl to the Countess of Carbery.

Constancy in Love.

Cupid Discovered.

Inconstancy in Love.

The Greek's Song.

Cælia's Complaint.

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SELECT DIALOGUES To Sing to the LUTE or VIOL.

[Sweet Lovely Nimph]

[Why Sighs thou Shepherd]

[Hast you Nimphs]

[And being set upon th'Elizium Shore, we'l sing such woes, such woes; we'l sing such woes, such woes, as ne'r came there before.]

[This Mossy Bank they prest]

[Shepherd well met]

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The Third Book.

To his Honoured Friend Mr. HENRY LAWES, Upon his Annual Book of AYRES.

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[The Ayres for One Voyce to Thearboe-Lute or Bass-Viol]

Cloris landing at Berlington.

Constancy protested.

Counsel to a Maid.

Hopelesse love cur'd by derision.

A young Maids Resolution.

Inconstancy return'd.

His Rivals danger.

To his Platonick Mistris.

Amintors welladay.

Affection for a Lady he never saw.

Freedome from Charmes.

On a Black Ribbon.

A Resolution to love no more.

Cupids Artillery.

A Lady to a young Courtier.

Falshood discovered.

A Pot of Flowers presented to Chloris.

A doubt resolv'd.

To the first object of Content.

A description of Chloris.

Chloris a constant comfort.

Amintor's Dream.

Chloris dead, lamented by Amintor.

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[The Dialogues]

A Dialogue on a Kisse.

A Dialogue between a Lover and his Friend.

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Short Ayres for One, Two, or Three Voyces.

[Once Venus Cheeks]

[I have prais'd with all my skill]

[When doth love set forth desire]

[Trust the forme of Ayrie things]

[Deer, throw that Flatt'ring Glass away]

[Do not delay me, though you have the pow'r]

[If you can find a heart (Sweet Love) to Rill]

[Sure thou framed wert by Art]

[Go Phœbus clear thy face]

[I prethee send me back my heart]

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Constancy protested.

[1]

Oft have I swore, I'de love no more;
Yet when I think on thee,
Alass I cannot give it o're,
But must thy captive be;
So many sweets and graces dwel
About thy lips and eyes,
That whosoever once is caught
Must ever be thy prize.

2

Sure thou hast got some cunning net
Made by the god of Fire,
That doth not only catch mens hearts
But fixeth their desire.
For I have laboured to get loose
Some dozen years and more,
And when I think to be releas'd
I'me faster than before.

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Then welcome sweet captivity,
I see there's no relief,
Yet though she steal my liberty,
I'le honor still the theife
And when I cannot hope to see
Thee Mistris of my pain,
My comfort is that I do love
Where I am lov'd again.