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Mvsicke Of Svndrie kindes

Set forth in two Bookes. The First Whereof Are, Aries for 4. Voices to the Lute, Orphorion, or Basse-Viol, with a Dialogue for two Voices, and two Basse Viols in parts, tunde the Lute way. The Second Are Pauens, Galiards, Almaines, Toies, Iigges, Thumpes and such like, for two Basse-Viols, the Lieraway, so made as the greatest number may serue to play alone, very easie to be performde. Composed by Thomas Ford

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[I. Not full twelue yeeres]

Not full twelue yeeres twice tolde

Not full twelue yeeres twice tolde A wearie breath I haue exchangde for A wished death, my course was short the longer is my rest, God takes them soonest whom he loueth best for he thats borne to day and dies to morrow loseth some dayes of mirth but months of sorrow.

Why feare we deth that cures our sicknesse Author of rest and ende of all distresses.

O there misfortunes often come to grieue vs deth strikes but once and that stroke doth relieue vs.