Fvneral Teares For the death of the Right Honorable the Earle of Deuonshire. Figvred In seauen songes, whereof sixe are so set forth that the wordes may be exprest by a treble voice alone to the Lute and Base Viole, or else that the meane part may bee added, if any shall affect more finnesse of parts. The Seaventh Is made in forme of a Dialogue, and cannot be sung without two voyces, Inuented by Iohn Coprario [i.e. John Cooper] |
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[Tis true, that whom the Italian Spider stinges] |
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[Tis true, that whom the Italian Spider stinges]
Tis true, that whom the Italian Spider stingesHe sings, or laughs, or daunces till he dies,
Or spends his short time in such idle things
As the seuerer sort call vanities:
Musicke alone this fury can release,
This venomous rancour that the flesh doth eate
Like enuie which in death doth seldome cease
To feede vpon the honours of the great.
Well haue we toyld in prosperous harmonie
If we the enuy poysned wounds doe cure
Of spitefull adder-toongd hypocrisie
That speakes washt wordes, but works darke deeds impure.
If such proue past recure, suffice it then
We song not to brute beasts, but humane men.
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