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Ant. Holborne in commendation of the Author.
To whom can ye, sweet Muses, more with rightJmpart your paines to praise his worthy skill,
Then vnto him that taketh sole delight,
Jn your sweet art, therewith the world to fill.
Then turne your tunes to Morleys worthy prayse,
And sing of him that sung of you so long:
His name with laud and with dew honour rayse,
That hath made you the matter of his song.
Like Orpheus sitting on high Thracian hill,
That beasts and mountaines to his ditties drew,
So doth he draw with his sweete musicks skill
Men to attention of his Science trew.
Wherein it seemes that Orpheus he exceeds,
For he wyld beasts, this men with pleasure feeds.
Another by A. B.
VVhat
former tymes through selfe respecting good
Of deepe-hid Musicke closly kept vnknowne,
That in our tongue of all to b'understoode,
Fully and plainly hath our Morley showne.
Of deepe-hid Musicke closly kept vnknowne,
That in our tongue of all to b'understoode,
Fully and plainly hath our Morley showne.
Whose worthy labors on so sweete a ground,
Great to himselfe to make thy good the better:
Jf that thy selfe do not thy selfe confound,
Will win him praise and make thee still his detter.
Great to himselfe to make thy good the better:
Jf that thy selfe do not thy selfe confound,
Will win him praise and make thee still his detter.
Buy, reade, regard, marke with indifferent eye,
More good for Musicke elsewhere doth not lie.
More good for Musicke elsewhere doth not lie.
Another by I. W.
A noise did rise like thunder in my hearing,When in the East J saw darke clowdes appearing:
Where furies sat in Sable mantles couched,
Haughty disdaine with cruel enuy matching,
Olde Momus and young Zoylus all watching,
How to disgrace what Morley hath auouched,
But loe the day star with his bright beames shining,
Sent forth his aide to musicks arte refining,
Which gaue such light for him whose eyes long houered,
To find a part where more lay vndiscouered,
That all his workes with ayre so sweete perfumed,
Shall liue with fame when foes shal be consumed.
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[Within this crosse here may you find]
Within this crosse here may you find,Foure parts in two be sure of this:
But first seeke out to know my mind,
Or els this Cannon you may misse.
| A plaine and easie introdvction to practicall mvsicke, set downe in forme of a dialogue: Deuided into three partes ... With new songs 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5. parts | |