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Madrigales to 3. 4. and 5. parts

apt for Viols and voices. Newly composed by Michaell Este
  

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XIX. The The spring is past

The spring is past and yet it hath not sprung

The spring is past and yet it hath not sprung, the fruit is dead, and yet the leaues be greene, My youth is gone, and yet I am but young, I saw the world, and yet I was not seene, and yet I was not seene, My thread is cut, and yet it is not spun, and now I liue, and now my life is done.