 | New Citharen Lessons, With perfect Tunings of the same, from Foure course of Strings to Fourteene course, euen to trie the sharpest teeth of Enuie, with Lessons of all sortes, and methodicall Instructions for all Professors and Practitioners of the Citharen |  |
Vnisons / dia pasons / diapasons.
These seuen with frets are double strung / al the other single / twisted.
The following poems are scored for music in the source text. Where poems are not stanzaic, no attempt has been made to reconsruct the metrical lines. Variations for different voices have been ignored. Repetition marks have been ignored.
[Ah, ah alas, thou God of Gods]
Ah, ah alas, thou God of Gods, bow down thine eares diuine lend Ladies here warme water springs to moist their christall eyne, that they may weepe and waile and wring their hands with mee for death of my beloued sonne, alas, loe dead is he, oh God thou that guidest the ghosts and soules of them that are fled, send sighes send sobs, send grieuous grones, and strike poore Dauid dead: Absalom, Absalom, O my sonne Absalom, my spirite with thine shall flie, come death most sweet, alas most sweet, for now, I craue to die to die, to die I craue to die.
[Now Cupid looke about thee]
Now Cupid looke about thee, thy Kingdome is decaying, young men beginne to flout thee, and turne their deeds to saying, in men there is no passion, loue is so out of fashion.
| New Citharen Lessons, With perfect Tunings of the same, from Foure course of Strings to Fourteene course, euen to trie the sharpest teeth of Enuie, with Lessons of all sortes, and methodicall Instructions for all Professors and Practitioners of the Citharen | |