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Ferrabosco, Alfonso (ca. 1575-1628)

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TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND ALFONSO FERRABOSCO.

TO THE WORTHY AVTHOR.

I.

I. Like Hermit poore

II.

II. Come home my troubled thoughts

III.

IIII.

IIII. Deere when to thee

V.

V. Faine I would

VI.

VI. Come my Celia

VII.

VII. So, so, leaue off

VIII.

VIII. Young and simple though I am

IX.

IX. Drowne not with teares

X.

X. I am a louer

XI.

XI. Why stayes the bridegroome

XII.

XII. Sing wee then heroyque grace

XIII.

XIII. Sing the riches of his skill

XIIII.

XIIII. Sing the nobles of his race

XV.

XV. With what new thoughts

XVI.

XVI. Fly from the world

XVII.

XVII. Shall I seeke to ease my griefe

XVIII.

XVIII. If all these Cupids now were blinde

XIX.

XIX. It was no pollicie of court

XX.

XX. Yes were the loues

XXI.

XXI. So beautie on the waters stood

XXII.

XXII. Had those that dwell

XXIII.

XXIII. If all the ages of the earth

XXIIII.

XXIIII. Vnconstant loue

XXV.

XXV. O Eyes, O mortall starres

XXVI.

XXVI. Fayre cruell Nimph

XXVII.

XXVII. What shall I wish

XXVIII.

XXVIII. Tell me O Loue

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XXVI. Fayre cruell Nimph

A Dialogue betweene a Shepheard and a Nimph.

Fayre cruell Nimph why thus in griefe & anguish

Fayre cruell Nimph why thus in griefe & anguish, Mak'st thou him that adores thee pine and languish? O but these fancies from thy beautie flow, O how I ioy, O how I ioy in thee my happy choise, As thou in me, as thou in me, so I in thee reioyce: Then let vs still together liue and loue, and sing the ioyes, the ioyes, and sing the ioyes that happy louers proue.

Dialogue Nimph.

Why Shepheard dost thou mee condemne as cruell

Why Shepheard dost thou mee condemne as cruell, Since thine owne fancies are thy passions fuell? Then shall reliefe to thee from bountie grow, O how I Ioy, O how I Ioy in this my happy choise, As thou in me, As thou in me, so I in thee reioyce, Then let vs still together liue and loue, And sing the ioyes, and sing the ioyes that happy louers proue.