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The second set of madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts, apt both for Voyals and Voyces

Wilbye, John (1574-1638)

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I.

[I. Come shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing]

II.

[II. Flourish ye hillockes]

III.

[III. Ah, cruell Amarillis]

IIII.

[IIII. So light is loue]

V.

[V. As faire as morne]

VI.

[VI. O what shall I doe]

VII.

[VII. I Liue, and yet me thinks I doe not breath]

VIII.

[VIII. There is a iewell]

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IX.

[IX. When Cloris heard of her Amintas dying]

X.

[X. Happy streames whose trembling fall]

XI.

[XI. Change me O heauens]

XII.

[XII. Loue not me for comely grace]

XIII.

[XIII. Flye not so swift]

XIIII.

[XIIII. I Loue alas, alas, yet am not loued]

XV.

[XV. As matchlesse beauty thee a Phœnix proues]

XVI.

[XVI. Happy, oh happy he, who not affecting]

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XVII.

[XVII. Sweet hony sucking Bees]

XVIII.

[XVIII. Yet Sweet take heed]

XIX.

[XIX. All pleasure is of this condition]

XX.

[XX. Oft haue I vow'd how dearely I did loue thee]

XXI.

[XXI. Downe in a valley]

XXII.

[XXII. Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted]

XXIII.

[XXIII. Weepe, weepe, weepe, mine eyes]

XXIIII.

[XXIIII. There where I saw her louely beautie]

XXV.

[XXV. Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty]

XXVI.

[XXVI. A Silly Siluan, kissing heauen-borne fire]

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XXVII.

[XXVII. O Wretched man]

XXVIII.

[XXVIII. Where most my thoughts]

XXIX.

[XXIX. Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish]

XXX.

[XXX. Ah cannot: To pitty, pitty me]

XXXI.

[XXXI. Draw on sweet night]

XXXII.

[XXXII. Stay Coridon thou swaine]

XXXIII.

[XXXIII. Softly]

XXXIIII.

[XXXIIII. Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary]

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[XIX. All pleasure is of this condition]

All pleasure is of this condition

All pleasure is of this condition, It pricks men forward to fruition, All It pricks men forward to fruition, But if enioy'd then like the humming Bee, then like the humming Bee, The honie being shed away doth flee, away doth flee, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart, But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart, the inward hart, With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart. With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart. With gnawing griefe, and neuer ending smart.