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Canzonets To Fowre Voyces

With a Song of eight parts

Farnaby, Giles (ca. 1565-1640)

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M. Io. Dowland to the Author.

M. R. Alison in praise of the Author.

M. Hu. Holland to the Author.

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I.

[I. My Ladyes collor'd cheeks]

II.

[II. Carters now cast down your whips]

III.

[III. Philida bewailed the want of Coridon]

IV.

[IV. Daphne on the rainebow]

V.

[V. Blind loue was shooting]

VI.

[VI. Pearce did loue faire Petronel]

VII.

[VII. Pearce did daunce with Petronel]

VIII.

[VIII. The wauering planet]

IX.

[IX. Lady, the sillie flea of all disdained]

X.

[X. Thrice blessed be the giuer]

XI.

[XI. The curtaine drawne I saw my loue]

XII.

[XII. Susanna faire sometime]

XIII.

[XIII. Loue shooting among many]

XIIII.

[XIIII. Loue shooting at an other]

XV.

[XV. Ay me poore hart]

XVI.

[XVI. Sometime she would and sometime not]

XVII.

[XVII. Among the dafadillies]

XVIII.

[XVIII. Simkin said that Sises was faire]

XIX.

[XIX. Ladie when 'I behold your passions]

XX.

[XX. Consture my meaning]

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XXI.

[XXI. Witnesse ye heauens]

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M. Hu. Holland to the Author.

I would both sing thy praise, and praise thy singing:
That in the winter nowe are both aspringing.
But my Muse must be stronger,
And the daies must be longer,
When the sunne's in his hight with ye bright Barnaby,
Then should we sing thy praises gentle Farnaby

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The following poems are scored for music in the source text. Where poems are stanzaic, no attempt has been made to reconstruct the metrical lines. Variations for different voices have been ignored. Repetition marks have been ignored.