The first set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5 Parts: apt for Viols and Voyces |
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[XIIII. What is our life?]
What is our life? a play of passion,Our mirth the musicke of diuision,
Our mothers wombes the tyring houses be,
Where we are drest for this short Comedy,
Heauen the Iudicious sharpe spectator is,
That sits and markes still who doth act amisse,
Our graues, that hide vs from the searching Sun,
Are like drawne curtaynes when the play is done,
Thus march we playing to our latest rest,
Onely we dye in earnest, that's no Iest.
| The first set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5 | |