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5. Voc.

I. Cold winters Ice is fled and gone

Cold winters Ice is fled and gone

Cold winters Ice is fled and gone, And sommer brages on eu'ry tree, The Redbreast peepes amidst the throng, Of wood borne birds that wanton bee, Each one forgets what they haue beene, And so doth Phillis sommers queene.

II. Now let vs make a merry greeting

Now let vs make a merry greeting

Now let vs make a merry greeting, & thank god Cupid for our meeting, My hart is full of ioy and pleasure, Since thou art heere mine onely treasure, Now will we daunce and sport and play, & sing a merry roundelay.

III. Take heere my heart, I giue it thee for euer

Take heere my hart I giue it thee for euer

Take heere my hart I giue it thee for euer. No better pledge can loue to loue deliuer, Feare not my deare, it will not flye away, For hope and loue command my hart to stay, desire will make it range, Loue but my hart will neuer change.

IIII. O care thou wilt dispatch mee

The first part.

O care thou wilt dispatch mee

O care thou wilt dispatch mee, if Musicke doe not match thee, Fa la la la la la la, So deadly doest thou sting mee, Mirth onely help can bring mee. Fa la la la la la la.

V. Hence care, thou art too cruell

The second part.

Hence care, thou art too cruell

Hence care, thou art too cruell, Come Musick sick mans Iewell, Fa la la la la la, His force had well nigh slaine mee. But thou must now sustaine mee. Fa la la la la la.

VI. See where the maides are singing

See where the maides are singing

See where the maides are singing, their louers garlands bringing, Yet my loue, my tormenter, to grieue mee doth absent hir, Ah, would shee but delight mee, I care not who would spight mee.

VII. Why are you Ladyes staying

The first part.

Why are you Ladies staying

Why are you Ladies staying, and your Lords gone a Maying, Runne a pace and meete them, And with your garlands greete them, Twere pittie they should misse you, For they will sweetly kisse you.

VIII. Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing

The second part.

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing

Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing: And a nimble morris prauncing, The bagpipe and the morris bells, that they are not farre hence vs tells, Come, let vs all goe thether, and daunce like friends together.

IX. Lady the birds right fairely, are singing euer early

Lady the birds right fairely

Lady the birds right fairely, Are singing euer earely The Larke, the Thrush, the Nightingale, The make sport Cuckow, and the Quaile, These sing of loue, then why sleepe yee, To loue your sleepe it may not bee.

X. As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe

As wanton Birds when day begins to peepe

As wanton Birds when day begins to peepe, With chirping notes salute the Suns arise, So I, whom loue had lately luld a sleep, do now with Ioy, pay tribute to hir eies, Whose saue bright beames persadge a happy day, Long may he liue that honors Phillida.