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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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Quid mortuos mordes canis? nihil retro
Cernis, neque vides manticæ quod in tergo est.
The dead why bit'st thou dogge? th'art backward blinde,
And doest not see the bagge thou bear'st behind.