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Of Songes, for three, fower, and fiue voyces, composed and made by Thomas Whythorne ... the which Songes be of sundry sortes, that is to say, some long, some short, some hard, some easie to be songe, and some betwene both: also some solemne, and some pleasant or mery: so that according to the skill of the singers (not being Musitians) and disposition or delite of the hearers, they may here finde Songes for their contentation and liking. Now newly published. In the Tenor or fift booke, ye shall haue the Preface of the Author, wherein he declareth more at large the contentes of these his fiue bookes
Whythorne, Thomas

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[As many heads haue many wits]

As many heads haue many wits, so diuers men of vertues haue, and vertue likes her

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ritches so, as other goods she doth not craue: nor to be celebrate of those, which be but of the cōmon sort, because that of her selfe she hath, no need of prayse or good report.

Tho. VVhyt.
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