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Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the Viols and voices

Weelkes, Thomas (1575 (ca.)-1623)

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I.

I. Cold winters Ice is fled and gone

II.

II. Now let vs make a merry greeting

III.

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

IIII.

IIII. O care thou wilt dispatch mee

V.

V. Hence care, thou art too cruell

VI.

VI. See where the maides are singing

VII.

VII. Why are you Ladyes staying

VIII.

VIII. Harke, harke, I heare some dauncing

IX.

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

X.

X. As wanton Birds, when day begins to peepe

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I.

[I. Like two proude armies]

II.

[II. When Thoralis delights to walke]

III.

[III. What haue the Gods, their comfort sent from heauen

IIII.

[IIII. Mee thinkes I heare, Amphions warbling strings

V.

[V. Three times a day my praier is]

VI.

[VI. Mars in a furie gainst loues brightest queene]

VII.

[VII. Thule, the period of Cosmographie

VIII.

[VIII. The Andelusian Merchant

IX.

[IX. A Sparow Hauke proude did hold in wicked Iayle]

X.

[X. Noell, adew thou Courts delight]

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[V. Three times a day my praier is]

Three times a day my praier is

Three times a day my praier is, To gaze my fill on Thoralis, And three times thrise I dayly pray, Not to offend that sacred May, That I may please, And she loue me, But all the yeere, my sute must be.