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The first booke of ayres of fovre parts, with Tableture for the luteh

So made, that all the parts may be plaide together with the Lute, or one voyce with the Lute and Base-Vyell

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[Madame, for you I little grieue to dye]

[1]

Madame, for you I little grieue to dye,
In, and to whom I liue, because I loue.
For if, my ill doe please your dainty eye,
It cannot me displease, nor greatly moue.
Vnlesse a minde in you so cruell be,
To kill your selfe, To make an end of mee.

2

Onely I grieue that all my life is you,
Who by my death must needs in danger be:
For if I dye it cannot be but true,
The sweetest of my life must die with mee;
If that a minde in you so cruell be,
To kill yourselfe, to make an end of mee.

3

Wherefore, if of my life you haue no care,
Which I esteeme but onely for your sake:
Yet of your owne, which death it selfe would spare,
I am in hope you will some pitty take;
Vnlesse a minde in you so cruell be,
To kill your selfe, to make an end of mee.