A Mvsicall Dreame Or The Fovrth Booke Of Ayres, The First part is for the Lute, two Voyces, and the Viole de Gambo; The Second part is for the Lute, the Viole and foure Voices to Sing: The Third part is for one Voyce alone, or to the Lute, the Basse Viole, or to both if you please, VVhereof, two are Italian Ayres |
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[O thred of life when thou art spēt how are my sorrowes eased.]
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O thred of life when thou art spēt how are my sorrowes eased.O vaile of flesh whē thou art rent how shal my soule be pleased:
O earth why tremblest thou at death
That did receiue both heate and breath
By bargain of a second birth,
That done again to be cold earth,
Come death deere widwife to my life,
See sin and vertue holde at strife,
Make hast a way
Lest thy delay
Bee my decay
World of inanity
School house of vanity
Minion of hell
Farewell farewell.
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O coward life whose feare doth tie me in distasting sences,Infused part mount vp on hie, life gets on life offences,
O she immortall flie away,
Be not immurde in finite clay,
Where true loue doth with selfe loue fight,
Begetting thoughts that doe affright,
Courage faint heart, sound trumpet death,
Ile find it wind with all my breath.
O case of glasse,
Confusions mase,
A flouring grasse,
Temple of treachery,
Soule yoake to misery,
Store-house of hell
Farewell, farewell.
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