A brief introduction to the skill of musick in three books. The first: the grounds and rules of musick, according to the gam-ut and other principles thereof. The second: instructions for the bass-viol, and also for the treble-violin: with lessons for beginners. By John Playford. The third: the art of descant, or composing musick in parts |
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The following poems are scored for music in the source text. Where poems are not stanzaic, no attempt has been made to reconstruct the metrical lines. Variations for different voices have been ignored. Repetition marks have been ignored.
[Gather your Rose buds while you may]
Gather your Rose buds while you may,
Old Time is still a flying,
And that same Flow'r that smiles to day,
To morrow will be dying.
Old Time is still a flying,
And that same Flow'r that smiles to day,
To morrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he is getting,
The sooner will his Race be run,
And nearer he's to Setting.
The higher he is getting,
The sooner will his Race be run,
And nearer he's to Setting.
That Age is best that is the first,
While Youth and Blood are warmer;
Expect not the last and worst,
Time still succeeds the former.
While Youth and Blood are warmer;
Expect not the last and worst,
Time still succeeds the former.
Then be not Coy, but use your Time,
While you may go Marry;
For having once but lost your Prime,
You may for ever tarry.
While you may go Marry;
For having once but lost your Prime,
You may for ever tarry.
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[Will Cloris cast her Sun-bright Eye]
Will
Cloris cast her Sun-bright Eye
upon so mean a Swain as I?
Can she affect my Oaten Reed,
or stoop to wear my Shepherds Weed?
upon so mean a Swain as I?
Can she affect my Oaten Reed,
or stoop to wear my Shepherds Weed?
What Rural Sport can I devise
To please her Ears to please her Eyes?
Fair Cloris Sees, Fair Cloris Hears,
With Angels Eyes, with Angels Ears!
To please her Ears to please her Eyes?
Fair Cloris Sees, Fair Cloris Hears,
With Angels Eyes, with Angels Ears!
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[Ten Short Tunes]
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Ten Short Tunes which may be Sung to any Psalm whose Measure is eight Syllables on the first line and six on the next, with the Basse to each Tune.
Oxford Tune.
Psal. 4.
O God that art my Righeousness, Lord hear me when I call:Thou hast set me at liberty: when I was bound and thrall.
New Tune.
Psal. 69.
Sing ye with praise unto the Lord, new songs with joy & mirth:Sing unto him with one accord, all people on the earth.
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Windsor Tune.
Psal. 116.
I love the Lord, because my voyce and prayer heard hath he:When in my dayes I call'd on him, he bow'd his ear to me.
Martyrs Tune.
Psal. 39.
I said I will look to my wayes, for fear I should go wrong:I will take heed all times that I offend not with my tongue.
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Cambridge Tune.
Psal. 12.
Help Lord, for good and godly men do perish and decay:And faith and truth from worldly men is parted clean away.
Cambridge short Tune.
Ps. 25. 50. 67. 70. 134.
I lift mine heart to thee, my God and guide most just:Now suffer me to take no shame, for in thee do I trust.
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Low Dutch Tune.
Psal. 23.
The Lord is only my support, and he that doth me feed:How can I then lack any thing whereof I stand in need.
Winchester Tune.
Psal. 84.
How pleasant is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts to me!The tabernacles of thy grace, how pleasant Lord they be!
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St. David's Tune.
Psal. 95.
O come let us lift up our voyce, and sing unto the Lord:In him our rock of health rejoyce, let us with one accord.
York Tune.
Psal. 73.
The Lord is both my health and light, shal man make me dismaid?Sith God doth give me strength & might, why should I be afraid?
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[Long Tunes]
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Long Tunes which may be Sung to any PSALM, whose Measure is 8 Syllables in the first line, and six in the next.
Psal. I.
The man is blest that hath not bent to wicked read his ear:Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sate in scorners Chair.
But in the Law of God the Lord doth set his whole delight:
And in that law doth exercise himself both day and night.
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Psal. 51.
O Lord consider my distress, and now with speed some pity take:My sins deface, my faults redress, good L. for thy great mercy sake
Wash me, O L. and make me clean from this unjust & sinful act:
And purifie yet once again my hainous crime and bloody fact.
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Psal. 119.
Blessed are they that perfect are, and pure in mind and heart,Whose lives and conversations from Gods Laws never start.
Blessed are they that give themselves his Statutes to observe,
Seeking the L. with all their hearts, and never from him swerve.
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Psal. 81.
Be light and glad in God rejoyce, which is our strength & stay:Be joyful, and lift up your voyce, to Jacob's God I say.
Prepare your Instruments most meet, some joyful Psalm to sing:
Strike up with Harp and Lute so sweet, on every pleasant string.
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Psal. 100.
All people that on Earth do dwell,Sing to the Lord with cheer-ful voyce:
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell:
Come ye before him and rejoyce.
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Psal. 113.
Ye children wch do serve the L.prais ye his nam with one accord
Yea blessed be always his name.
Who from the rising of the Sun,
Till it return where it begun,
Is to be praised with great fame.
The L. all people doth surmount,
as for his glory we may count,
above the heavens high to be.
With God the Lord who may compare,
whose dwellings in the Heavens are:
of such great pow'r and force is He.
Psal. 148.
Give laud unto the Lord,from heav'n that is so high;
Praise him in deed and word
above the starry sky:
And also ye,
his Angels all,
Armies royal,
praise him with glee.
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Geneva Tune.
Psal. 112.
The man is blest whom God doth fear,And that his Law doth love indeed:
His Seed on Earth God will uprear,
And bless such as from him proceed:
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His righteousness endure shall still.
Ten Commandement Tune.
Second Metre.
Those that do put their confidenceupon the Lord our God only,
and fly to him for their defence
in all their need and misery.
FINIS.
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