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Mvsica transalpina

Madrigales translated out of foure, fiue and sixe partes, chosen out of diuers excellent Authors, vvith the first and second part of La Verginella, made by Maister Byrd, vpon tvvo Stanza's of Ariosto, and brought to speake English vvith the rest. Published by N. Yonge, in fauour of such as take pleasure in Musicke of voices

Yonge, Nicholas

[note]

[dedication]

Of 4.

[I. These that be certaine signes of my tormenting]

II.

[II. The faire Diana neuer more reuiued]

III.

[III. Ioye so delights my hart and so relieues me]

IIII.

[IIII. False Loue now shoote & spare not]

[V. O griefe if yet my griefe be not beleeued]

VI.

[VI. As in the night we see the sparckes reuiued]

VII.

[VII. In vayne he seekes for beautye that excelleth]

VIII.

[VIII. What meaneth Loue to nest him]

IX.

[IX. Sweet Loue when hope was flowring]

[X. Lady that hand of plenty]

XI.

[XI. Who will ascend to heauen & there obtaine me]

XII.

[XII. Lady your looke so gentle]

Of 5.

XIII.

[XIII. From what part of the heauen]

XV.

[XV. In euery place I finde my griefe & anguish]

XVI.

[XVI. Thirsis to dye desired]

XVII.

[XVII. The second part. Thirsis that heate refrayned]

XVIII.

[XVIII. The third part. Thus these two louers]

XIX.

[XIX. Svsanna faire sometime of loue requested]

XXI.

[XXI. When shall I cease lamenting]

XXII.

[XXII. I must depart all haples]

XXIII.

[XXIII. I saw my Lady weeping]

XXIIII.

[XXIIII. The second part. Like as from heauen]

XXV.

[XXV. So gratious is thy sweete selfe]

XXVI.

[XXVI. Cruell vnkinde]

XXVII.

[XXVII. What doth my pretie dearling]

XXVIII.

[XXVIII. Sleepe sleepe, mine onely Iuell]

XXIX.

[XXIX. The second part. Thou bringst her home ful nye me]

XXX.

[XXX. Sound out my voyce with pleasant tunnes recording]

XXXI.

[XXXI. Liquide and watrye perles Loue wept]

XXXII.

[XXXII. The Nightingale so pleasant]

XXXIII.

[XXXIII. With in a greene wood]

XXXIIII.

[XXXIIII. Sometime when hope relyu'd me]

XXXV.

[XXXV. Rvbyes and perles & treasure]

XXXVI.

[XXXVI. O sweet kisse full of comfort]

XXXVII.

[XXXVII. Some time my hope full weakly]

XXXVIII.

[XXXVIII. Lady that hand of plenty]

XXXIX.

[XXXIX. My hart, my hart alas why dost thou Loue]

XL.

[XL. Lady if you so spight me]

XLI.

XLI. Cantio rustica.

XLII.

[XLII. Thirsis enioyd the graces]

LXIII.

[LXIII. The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay]

XLIIII.

[XLIIII. The first part. The fayre yong Virgin]

XLV.

[XLV. The second part. Bvt not so soone]

Of 6.

XLVI.

[XLVI. I will goe dye for pure loue]

XLVII.

[XLVII. These that be certaine signes of my tormenting]

XLVIII.

[XLVIII. So farre from my delight]

XLIX.

[XLIX. The second part. She onely doth not feele it]

[L. Loe here my hart in keping]

LI.

[LI. Now must I part]

LII.

[LII. The first part. Zephirus brings the time that sweetely senteth]

LIII.

[LIII. The second part. Bvt with me wretch the storms of woe perseuer]

LIIII.

[LIIII. I was full neere my fall]

LV.

[LV. The second part. Bvt as the byrd that in due time espying]

LVI.

[LVI. I soung sometime]

LVII.

[LVII. The second part. Because my Loue too lofty and too dispightfull]

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[XIX. Svsanna faire sometime of loue requested]

Svsanna faire sometime of loue requested

Svsanna faire sometime of loue requested, sometime of loue requested, by two old men whome her sweete lookes allur'd, was in was in her hart full sad & sore molested, seing the force her chastitie endur'd, to them she sayd, if I by craft procur'd, do yeld to you my body to abuse it, I kill my soule, I kill my soule, & if I shal refuse it, you wil me iudge to death reprochfully, but better it is, in innocēce to chuse /it, in innocēce to chuse it, then by my fault, thē by my fault, t'offēd my God on hye, then by my fault, t'offēd my God on hye.

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Song XX. is a repetition of Song XIX.