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Priuate Musicke

Or the first booke of Ayres and Dialogues: Contayning Songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts, of seuerall sorts, and being Verse and Chorus, is fit for Voyces and Viols. And for want of Viols, they may be performed to either the Virginall or Lute, where the Proficient can play vpon the Ground, or for a shift to the Base Viol alone. All made and composed, according to the rules of Art

Peerson, Martin (1571?-1651)

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II.

III.

IIII.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIIII.

XIIII

XV.

[XV. Come pretty wag and sing]

XVI.

[XVI. Then with reports most sprightly]

XVII.

[XVII. Pretty wantons sweetly sing]

XVIII.

[XVIII. Sing loue is blinde]

XIX.

[XIX. What neede the morning rise]

XX.

[XX. Gaze not on youth]

XXI.

[XXI. True pleasure is in Chastitie]

XXII.

[XXII. The Spring of ioy is dry]

XXIII.

[XXIII. Is not that my fancies Queene]

XXIIII.

[XXIIII. See, O see, who is heere come a maying]

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IIII. [Disdaine that so doth fill me]

[1]

Disdaine that so doth fill me,
Hath surely sworne to kill me,
And I must dye,
Desire that still doth burne me,
To life againe will turne me,
And liue must I,
O kill me then dispaire,
That I may liue againe.

2

Thy lookes are life vnto me,
And yet those lookes vndoe me:
O death and life.
Thy smile some rest doth show me,
Thy frowne with warre orethrow me,
O peace and strife.
Nor life, nor death is either,
Then giue me both, or neither.

3

Life onely cannot please me,
Death onely cannot ease mee:
Change is delight.
I liue that death may kill me,
I dye that life may fill me,
Both day and night.
If once dispaire decay,
Desire will weare away.