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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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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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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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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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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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[XXXII. Stay Coridon thou swaine]

Stay Coridon thou swaine

Stay Coridon thou swaine, talke not so soone of dying, What though thy hart be slaine? What though thy loue be flying? She threatens thee but dares not strike, Thy Nimph is light, and shadow like, Thy Nimph is light and shadow like, Thy Nimph is light and shadow like,

For if thou follow her, Sheele flye from thee, sheele flye from thee, But if thou flye from her, sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee. For if thou follow her, sheele flye from thee, from thee, But if thou flye from her, sheele follow thee. But if thou flye from her, sheele follow thee, sheele follow thee. sheele follow thee.