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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
Attey, John

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[What is all this world but vaine?]

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What is all this world but vaine?
What are all our ioyes but paine?
What our pleasures but a dreame,
Passing swifely like a streame?

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Like a flower now we grow,
Like the Sea we ebbe and flow:
Still vncertaine is our change,
Like the winde so doe we range.

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No contented ioy wee haue,
Till within the silent graue
Our fraile flesh be laid to sleepe;
Then we cease to mourne, to weepe.

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Who would trust to worldly things,
Which beguile the greatest Kings?
I will set my heart on high,
And contented so will dye.
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