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Ayres and dialogues

For One, Two, and Three Voyces. By Henry Lawes ... The First Booke

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To Mr. HENRY LAWES, who had then newly set a Song of mine in the Year, 1635.
 
To his Honour'd F. Mr. HENRY LAWES, on his Ayres and Dialogues.
 
To the much honour'd Mr. HENRY LAVVES, on his Book of Ayres.
 
To his much honour'd F. Mr. HENRY LAWES, on his Book of Ayres.
 
To my ever honour'd Friend & Father, Mr. HENRY LAWES, on his Book of Ayres and Dialogues.
 
TO his Honour'd Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, upon his Book of Ayres.
 
To my Honour'd Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, upon his Book of Ayres.
 
To my Dear and Honour'd Friend, Mr. HENRY LAWES, upon his Incomparable Book of Songs.
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[Theseus, O Theseus, hark! but yet in vain]
 
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In the Person of a Lady to her inconstant servant.
 
To the same Lady, singing the former Song.
 
To Amarantha, To dishevell her haire.
 
The Reform'd Lover.
 
The Cælestiall Mistress.
 
Love above Beauty.
 
The Bud.
 
Cœlia singing.
 
Anacreon's Ode, call'd, The Lute, Englished and to be sung by a Basse alone.
 
Desperato's Banquet.
 
To Cælia, inviting her to Marriage.
 
Youth and Beauty.
 
Love and Musick.
 
An Anniversary on the Nuptials of John Earle of Bridgewater, July 22. 1652.
 
Staying in London after the Act for Banishment, and going to meet a Friend who fail'd the hour appoynted.
 
No Constancy in Man.
 
Beauties Eclyps'd.
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PASTORALL DIALOGUES.
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Heere beginneth short Ayres for one, two or three Voyces.

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No Constancy in Man.

Be gone, be gone thou perjur'd man,
and never more return,
For know that thy inconstancy
hath chang'd my Love to Scorn:
Thou hast awak'd me, and I can
see cleerly ther's no Truth in Man.
My Love to thee was chast and pure,
As is the Morning dew,
And 'twas alone like to endure,
Hadst thou not prov'd untrue;
But I'm awak'd, and now I can
See cleerly ther's no Truth in Man.
Thou mayst perhaps prevaile upon
Some other to believe thee,
And since thou canst love more then one,
Ne'r think that it shall grieve me;
For th'hast awak'd me, and I can
See cleerly ther's no Truth in Man.
By thy Apostasie I find
That Love is plac'd amiss,
And can't continue in the mind
Where Vertue wanting is:
I'm now resolv'd, and know there can
No constant Thought remain in Man.
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