 | The first set: beeing songs and diuers Ayres and Natures, of Fiue and Sixe parts: Apt for Vyols and Voyces |  |
X. O Merry world
O merry, world when euery louer with his mate,Might walke from meade to meade, And cheerefully relate,
Sowre pleasures, and sweet griefes, following a wanton state,
Those dayes knew no suspect, each one might freely prate,
And daunce and sing, and play with his consociate,
Then louers vsde like Turtles, to kisse full louingly,
O honey dayes, and customes of antiquitie, But the world now is so full, of so fond Ielousie,
That we count charitie,
Wanton iniquitie,
| The first set: beeing songs and diuers Ayres and Natures, of Fiue and Sixe parts: Apt for Vyols and Voyces | |