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The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces

Wilbye, John (1574-1638)

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Of 3. voc.
 I. 
[I. Come shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing]
 II. 
[II. Flourish ye hillockes]
 III. 
[III. Ah, cruell Amarillis]
 IIII. 
[IIII. So light is loue]
 V. 
[V. As faire as morne]
 VI. 
[VI. O what shall I doe]
 VII. 
[VII. I Liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath]
 VIII. 
[VIII. There is a iewell]
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Of 4. voc.
 IX. 
[IX. When Cloris heard of her Amintas dying]
 X. 
[X. Happy streames whose trembling fall]
 XI. 
[XI. Change me O heauens]
 XII. 
[XII. Loue not me for comely grace]
 XIII. 
[XIII. Flye not so swift]
 XIIII. 
[XIIII. I Loue alas, alas, yet am not loued]
 XV. 
[XV. As matchlesse beauty thee a Phœnix proues]
 XVI. 
[XVI. Happy, oh happy he, who not affecting]
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Of 5. voc.
 XVII. 
[XVII. Sweet hony sucking Bees]
 XVIII. 
[XVIII. Yet Sweet take heed]
 XIX. 
[XIX. All pleasure is of this condition]
 XX. 
[XX. Oft haue I vow'd how dearely I did loue thee]
 XXI. 
[XXI. Downe in a valley]
 XXII. 
[XXII. Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted]
 XXIII. 
[XXIII. Weepe, weepe, weepe, mine eyes]
 XXIIII. 
[XXIIII. There where I saw her louely beautie]
 XXV. 
[XXV. Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty]
 XXVI. 
[XXVI. A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire]
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Of 6. voc.
 XXVII. 
[XXVII. O Wretched man]
 XXVIII. 
[XXVIII. Where most my thoughts]
 XXIX. 
[XXIX. Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish]
 XXX. 
[XXX. Ah cannot: To pitty, pitty me]
 XXXI. 
[XXXI. Draw on sweet night]
 XXXII. 
[XXXII. Stay Coridon thou swaine]
 XXXIII. 
[XXXIII. Softly]
 XXXIIII. 
[XXXIIII. Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary]

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[XXVII. O Wretched man]

O wretched man, O wretched man, why lou'st thou earthly life?

O wretched man, O wretched man, why lou'st thou earthly life? Which naught enioyes but cares and endlesse trouble? What pleasure here but breeds a world of griefe? What howers ease that anguish doth not double? No earthly ioyes but haue their discontents, but haue their discontents, Then loath that life, which causeth such laments.

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