CANTUS. THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS: TO Four Voices: Newly composed by JOHN FARMER, practitioner in the art of Music. Printed at London in Little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious-streete, Anno Dom. 1599 Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. VERO NIHIL VERIUS To the right Honourable my very good Lord and Master, EDWARD DEVERE Earl of Oxenford, Viscount Bulbeck, Lord of Escales and Badlesmere, and Lord great Chamberlain of England, JOHN FARMER wisheth long life, health and happiness with increase of honour. MOst Honourable Lord, it cometh not within the compass of my power to express all the duty I own, nor to pay the least part: so far have your Honourable favours outstripped all means to manifest my humble affection, that there is nothing left but praying and wondering. There is a canker worm that breedeth in many minds, feeding only upon forgetfulness, and bringing forth no birth but ingratitude: to show that I have not been bitten with that monster, for worms prove monsters in this age, which yet never any Painter could counterfeit to express the ugliness, nor any Poet describe to decipher the height of their illness: I have presumed to tender these Madrigales only as remembrances of my service and witnesses of your Lordship's liberal hand, by which I have so long lived, and from your Honourable mind that so much have loved all liberal Sciences: in this I shall be most encouraged, if your Lordship vouchsafe the protection of my first fruits, for that both for your greatness you best can, and for your judgement in Music best may: for without flattery be it spoken, those that know your Lordship know this, that using this science as a recreation, your Lordship have overgone most of them that make it a profession. Right Honourable Lord, I hope it shall not be distasteful to number you here amongst the favourers of Music, and the practisers, no more than Kings and Emperors that have been desirous to be in the roll of Astronomers, that being but a star fair, the other an Angels Quire. Thus most humbly submitting myself, my labours, and what ever is or may be in me, to your Lordship's censure & protection: I humbly end wishing your Lordship as continual an increasing of health and honour, as there is a daily increase of virtue, to come to happiness. Your honours most dutiful servant to command JOHN FARMER. To the Reader. THe present age being so beautified with excellent Poets and adorned with rare Musicians, amongst whom some by public writings make an elephant of a mouse: other by strange Paradoxes strive to attain pre-eminence: I have thought good amongst the rest, being as virtuously ambitious as any, to expose myself to the world, clothing my infant in humility, not ostentation, striving so far to avoid a peremptory opinion of mine own wit, as I take it▪ ●n honour for me to ascribe the little I deserve rather to the master that taught me, than mine own diligence that form and fashioned my Muses: only this I protest for myself, that I have studied so much as in me lieth to observe a true decorum, which protestation I shall suppose for an indecorum also before it be ratified by your allowance and favours. Yet in these my Madrigales I beseech you esteem this, that I have not enforced the one to the other, but so fitly have I linked my Music to number, as each give to other their true effect, which is to move delight, which delight, as Socrates witnesseth in Plato's Philebo, is the daughter of Harmony. This virtue being so singular in the Italians, as only under that ensign they hazard their honour: I could advise the studious in Music so to employ themselves, that they might seem to be rightly borne under the sweet aspect of Venus, which, as the Astronomers witness, is the Dominatrix in musicans nativities: it is the only grace in a physician to follow this course, so to fit both note and number as if like Twins of one mother, they may seem to be all one which yieldeth great abundance of variety. To conclude, I so much love perfect harmony, as I earnestly entreat all the professed in Music to fly discord amongst themselves: though in composing of songs, it may be well taken, beseeching them so far to fly self-opinion also, that aiming all of them at their Country's honour, not their own glory, they may by this means and in this manner outstrip any stranger, and make England as famous in Musicians, as it is and hath been for soldiers: so leaving my labours to your favourable judgement, to keep secret what may be amiss. I take hearty leave. A friend to all lovers and Professors of Music john Farmer. I. YOu pretty flowers that smile for summers sake, pull in your heads before my watery eyes do turn do turn the meadows to a standing lake, by whose untimely floods your glo-ry dies, for lo my heart re-solved to moistening air feeding mine eyes ij which doubles tear for tear, which ij which doubles tear for tear, for lo my heart re-solved to moistening air, feeding mine eyes ij with doubles tear for tear which ij which doubles tear for tear. II. NOw each creature joys the other, now ij each creature joys the other: passing happy days and hours: one bird reports unto an- there re - ij- ij reports unto another, re- ij by the fall of sil- ver showers, whilst the earth our common mother, hath her bosom decked with flowers: one bird reports un- to an- there re - ij- ij reports unto another re - ij- ij by the fall of sil- ver showers, whilst the earth our common mother, hath her bosom decked with flowers. III. YOu'll never leave still tossing to and fro still ij you'll never leave still tossing to & fro, still ij till at the last you catch a fall: for wave- ring minds, for wave- ring minds doth always harbour woe, doth ij losing true friendship, loo- sing true friendship, love & all: be constant then and thou shalt find it best, to scorn the world, in hope to live at rest, to ij to live at rest, to scorn the world in hope to live at rest. LAdy my flame still burning, Lady ij and my con-suming anguish doth grow so great, doth ij that life I feel to languish, oh let your heart be moved, oh ij to end your grief, to end your grief & mine so long time proved, and quenched the heat that my chief part so fireth and ij that my chief part so fireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requi- reth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requi- reth and quench the heat that my chief part so fireth, and ij that my chief part so fireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requi- reth, yielding the fruit that faithful love re- qui- reth. V The second part. Sweet Lord your flame, your flame still burr bur-ning, & your continual anguish, can not be more than mine in which I languish cannot be more than mine in which I languish, nor more your heart is mou mou-ed, to end my grief my grief and yours so long time proved: but if I yield, & so your flame decreaseth, but ij I then lose my life, I ij I then lose my life, I ij & so our love cea- eth: but if I yield & so your flan decreseth, but ij I then lose my life, I ij I ij I ij and so our love cease- eth. VI Soon as the hungry Li- on seeks his prey, soon ij in so- li-ta-ry rang, in ij of pathless mountains of ij soon as the passenger sets on his way, sets ij so soon as beasts resort, so soon as beasts resort, so soon as beasts resort unto the fountains, so soon, so soon mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charging, & I my griefs my griefs, my griefs with greater griefs enlarging, so soon so soon mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charging, and I my griefs my griefs my griefs with greater griefs inlarg-ing. VII. The first part. O Stay sweet love, O ij O ij O stay sweat love see here the place of sporting, see ij of sporting of ij of sporting of ij of ij these gentle flowers smiles sweet- lie to in- vite us, and chirping chirping birds, ij are hitherwards resorting, warbling sweet notes, war-bling ij only to delight us, then stay dear love, than ij then ij then stay dear love, for though thou run from me, from me, for ij for though thou run from me, for ij run near so fast ij run near so fast, yet I will follow thee, yet ij yet I will follow thee yet ij then stay dear love, than ij then ij then ij for though thou run from me, from me, for ij for ij for though thou run from me, run near so fast ij run near so fast, yet I will follow thee yet ij yet I will follow thee yet I will follow thee. VIII. The second part. I Thought my love that I should overtake you, sweet heart sit down sit down under this shadowed tree, and I will promise never to forsake you, so you will grant to me a lo-vers fee, whereat she smiled, whereat she smiled, and kindly to me said, I never meant to live and die a maid, whereat she smiled, whereat she smiled, and kindly to me said, I never meant to live and die a maid. IX. Compare me to the child that plays with fire with fire ij ij with fire, or to the fly the fly that di-eth in the flame, or to the foolish boy the foo- lish boy that did aspire that ij aspire to touch the glory of high heavens frame, no man to these me fit- lie can compare, these live to die these ij these live to die I die ij I die ij I die to live in care, no man to these me fit-ly can compare, these live to die, these ij these live to die, I die ij I die ij I die to live in care. X. WHo would have thought that face of thine had been so full ij of doubleness, ij or that within those crystal eyen ij had been so much ij ij unstable vnstable-nes: thy face so fair ij thy look so strange ij thy look so strange, thy look so strange, who would have thought of such a change? ij who would have thought of such a change? XI. For the love of his most dear friend EDMUND KEATE. Sweet friend thy absence grieves my bleeding heart, thy ij yet do I joy yet ij yet do I joy I joy I joy yet do I joy I joy I joy to hear of thy good health: ah Woe is me ah ij that now I shall departed from thee, more dear to me then Croesus' wealth, but if on earth I may not see thy face, but ij I'll fly to heaven, I'll ij I'll fly I'll fly to heaven to heaven, I'll fly I'll fly to heaven, I'll fly to heaven, to seek thee in that place, to seek thee in that place. XII. THe flattering words, sharp glosses that men use, ij to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares, to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares: with fai- ned looks their gentle sex abuse, their ij which yields nought else but grief and endless cares, and end- less cares: sometimes they smile and sometimes frown, but ne- ver pleased in deed, till time till time and place till time and place, where they may watch their sorrows their sorrows their sorrows for to breed, sometimes they smile and sometimes frown, but ne- ver pleased indeed, till time till time and place, till time and place, where they may watch their sorrows, their sore- rows their sorrows for to breed. XIII. CEase now thy mourning & thy sad lamenting, ij for fair Aurora's lovely face doth light thee: thy mistress heart is now up- 'pon relenting: vowing henceforth ne- ver more to spite thee: then harbour not those thoughts ij that still may grieve thee, ij since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee ij since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee. XIIII. A little pretty bony lass was walking in midst of May, be- fore the Sun 'gan rise: a little pretty bony 'las was walking in midst of May before the Sun 'gan rise: I took her by the hand, I ij and fell to talking of this and that of ij of ij as best I could deuise, I swore I would, yet still she said I should not, yet ij do what I would ij & yet for all I could not, ij I swore I would yet still she said I should not yet ij do what I would, ij and yet for all I could not, and yet for all I could not. XV. Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone feeding her flock near to the mountain side, fair Phyllis I saw sit- thing all alone feeding her flock near to the mountain side: the shepherds knew not they knew not whither she was gone, but after her lover, her lover, but after her lover Amyn- tas hied up and down he wandered up ij up ij up and down he wandered, up and down he wandered, whilst she was missing, when he found her, oh then they fell a kissing a kissing, oh then they fell a kissing, up & down he wandered, up ij up ij up ij up and down he won- dread whilst she was missing, when he found her, oh then they fell a kissing a kissing, oh then they fell a kissing. XVI. TAke time while time doth last take time while time doth last take time while time doth last, mark how fair fa-deth fast, mark how fair fa-deth fast: beware beware if en- vy reign, beware ij take heed of proud does- deign take heed of proud of proud disdain hold fast now in thy youth now in thy youth, hold fast now in thy youth, hold fast hold fast hold fast now in thy youth ij now ij now ij regard regard regard thy vow-ed truth, lest when thou wax- eth old lest when thou wax-eth old thou ij least when thou wax-eth old friends fail friends fail and love grow cold, and love grow cold, and love grow cold. XVII. Of 8. voices. SECUNDUS BASSUS. You blessed etc. shadow the sunshine from my mistress face, and you sweet roses on-ly for her bedding, when weary she doth take her resting place, when wea-ry she doth take her rest-ing place, you fair white lilies, and pretty pretty flowers all, give your attendance at my mistress call, give your attendance at my mi- stris call my misttesse call, give your attendance at my mistress call, you fair white lilies, & pretty pretty flowers all give your attendance give ij at my mistress call give ij give ij give your attendance at my mistress call. YOu bless- said bowers whose green leaves now are sprea-ding sha'- dow the sunshine from my mistress face, and you sweet ro-ses only for her bedding- for her bedding, when wea-ry she doth take her resting place, give your attendance at my mistress call, give your attendance give your attendance at my mistress call give your attendance ij at my mistress call, give your attendance give your attendance at my mistress call. THE TABLE. YOu pretty Flowers I Now each creature. TWO You'll never leave. III Lady my flame. The first part. IIII Sweet Lord your flame. The second part. V Soon as the hungry Lion. VI O stay sweet love. The first part. VII I thought my love The second part. VIII Compare me to the Flie. IX Who would have thought. X Sweet friend thy absence. XI The flattering words. XII Cease now thy mourning. XIII A little pretty bony lass. XIIII Fair Phyllis. XV Take time. XVI You blessed bowers, A song of eight voices. XVII FINIS. ALTUS. THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS: TO Four Voices: Newly composed by JOHN FARMER, practitioner in the art of Music. Printed at London in Little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious-streete, Anno Dom. 1599 Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. VERO NIHIL VERIUS To the right Honourable my very good Lord and Master, EDWARD DEVERE Earl of Oxenford, Viscount Bulbeck, Lord of Escales and Badlesmere, and Lord great Chamberlain of England, JOHN FARMER wisheth long life, health and happiness with increase of honour. MOst Honourable Lord, it cometh not within the compass of my power to express all the duty I own, nor to pay the least part: so far have your Honourable favours outstripped all means to manifest my humble affection, that there is nothing left but praying and wondering. There is a canker worm that breedeth in many minds, feeding only upon forgetfulness, and bringing forth no birth but ingratitude: to show that I have not been bitten with that monster, for worms prove monsters in this age, which yet never any Painter could counterfeit to express the ugliness, nor any Poet describe to decipher the height of their illness: I have presumed to tender these Madrigales only as remembrances of my service and witnesses of your Lordship's liberal hand, by which I have so long lived, and from your Honourable mind that so much have loved all liberal Sciences: in this I shall be most encouraged, if your Lordship vouchsafe the protection of my first fruits, for that both for your greatness you best can, and for your judgement in Music best may: for without flattery be it spoken, those that know your Lordship know this, that using this science as a recreation, your Lordship have overgone most of them that make it a profession. Right Honourable Lord, I hope it shall not be distasteful to number you here amongst the favourers of Music, and the practisers, no more than Kings and Emperors that have been desirous to be in the roll of Astronomers, that being but a star fair, the other an Angels Quire. Thus most humbly submitting myself, my labours, and what ever is or may be in me, to your Lordship's censure & protection: I humbly end wishing your Lordship as continual an increasing of health and honour, as there is a daily increase of virtue, to come to happiness. Your honours most dutiful servant to command JOHN FARMER. To the Reader. THe present age being so beautified with excellent Poets and adorned with rare Musicians, amongst whom some by public writings make an elephant of a mouse: other by strange Paradoxes strive to attain pre-eminence: I have thought good amongst the rest, being as virtuously ambitious as any, to expose myself to the world, clothing my infant in humility, not ostentation, striving so far to avoid a peremptory opinion of mine own wit, as I take it an honour for me to ascribe the little I deserve rather to the master that taught me, than mine own diligence that form and fashioned my Muses: only this I protest for myself, that I have studied so much as in me lieth to observe a true decorum, which protestation I shall suppose for an indecorum also before it be ratified by your allowance and favours. Yet in these my Madrigales I beseech you esteem this, that I have not enforced the one to the other, but so fitly have I linked my Music to number, as each give to other their true effect, which is to move delight, which delight, as Socrates witnesseth in Plato's Philebo, is the daughter of Harmony. This virtue being so singular in the Italians, as only under that ensign they hazard their honour: I could advise the studious in Music so to employ themselves, that they might seem to be rightly borne under the sweet aspect of Venus, which, as the Astronomers witness, is the Dominatrix in musicans nativities: it is the only grace in a physician to follow this course, so to fit both note and number as if like Twins of one mother, they may seem to be all one which yieldeth great abundance of variety. To conclude, I so much love perfect harmony, as I earnestly entreat all the professed in Music to fly discord amongst themselves: though in composing of songs, it may be well taken, beseeching them so far to fly self-opinion also, that aiming all of them at their Country's honour, not their own glory, they may by this means and in this manner outstrip any stranger, and make England as famous in Musicians, as it is and hath been for soldiers: so leaving my labours to your favourable judgement, to keep secret what may be amiss. I take hearty leave. A friend to all lovers and Professors of Music john Farmer. I. YOu pray- ty flowers that smile for summers sake: pull in your heads before my watery eyes do turn the meadows, to a standing lake, a ij by whose untimely floods your glo-ry dies: for lo my heart resolved to moistening air feeding mine eyes, feed-ij feeding mine eyes which doubles tear for tear, tear ij which ij which ij for lo my heart resolved to moistening air feeding mine eyes, feed-ij feeding mine eyes which doubles tear for tear, tear for tear, ij which doubles tear for tear. II. The second part. NOw each creature joys the other, now ij now ij joys the other, pas-sing happy days and hours, one bird reports unto an other un-to an o-ther, on ij reports un-to an other by the fall re ij by the fall of silver showers: whilst the earth our common mother hath her bosom decked with flowers: one bird re-ports un-to an other un-to an other one ij reports un-to an other by▪ the fall re ij by the fall of silver showers whilst the earth our common mother hath her bosom decked with flowers. III. Yyou'le never leave still tossing to and fro still ij you'll never leave still tossing to and fro still ij till at the last you catch a fall for wave- ring minds doth always harbour woe, ij doth ij lo-sing true friendship ij love and all: be constant then and thou shalt find it best to scorn the world in hope to live at rest, in hope to live at rest, to scorn ij to scorn the world in hope to live at rest. FOUR The first part. LAdy my flame still burning, ij still burning, and my consuming an- guish doth grow so great, doth ij that life I feel to lan-guish, oh let your heart be moved, oh ij to end your grief and mine so long time proo-ued, and quench the heat, and ij that my chief part so fireth, and quench the heat that my chief part, that ij part so fireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requi- reth, re- qui- reth, yielding the fruit that faithful love re- qui- reth, and quench the heat, and quench the heat, that my chief part so fireth, and ij that my chief part so fireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requi- reth, requireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love requireth. V The second part. Sweet Lord your flame, your flame still burning, and your continual anguish, can not be more than mine in which I languish, can ij nor more your heart is mou-ed to end my grief, to ij to end my grief ij and yours so long time proved: but if I yield, and so your flame decreas- eth, but ij deccreseth, I then lose my life, lose ij I then lose my life, ij and so our love ceaseth: but if I yield and so your flame decreas- eth, but if I yield & so your flame decreseth, I then lose my life, lose my life, I then lose my life, ij and so our love ceaseth. VI Soon as the hungry Li- on seeks his prey, soon ij in so- li- ta- ry rang, in ij of pathless mountains soon as the passenger, soon ij sets on his way, so soon as beasts resorts, so soon as beasts resort, resort unto the fountains, so soon, so soon mine eyes their office are discharging, and I my griefs, my griefs with greater griefs inlarg-ing: so soon, ij mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charging, and I my griefs my griefs with greater griefs inlarg-ing. VII. The first part. O Stay sweet love, ij O stay O stay sweet love, see here the place of sporting, see ij of spor-ting, of spor-ting ij of sporting ij these gentle flowers smiles sweet-ly to invite us, and chir-ing chir-ping birds, and ij ij are hitherwards resorting, warbling sweet notes ij on-ly to de- light us, then stay dear love, than ij then stay dear love, for though thou run from me, for ij from me, for though thou run from me, for ij run near so fast run ij yet I will follow thee follow▪ thee yet ij yet ij yet I will follow thee, then stay dear love ij then stay dear love for though thou run from me ij from me for though thou run from me, for ij run near so fast run ij yet I will follow thee follow thee yet ij yet I will follow thee, yet I will follow thee. VIII. The second part. I thought my love that I should overtake you: sweet heart sit down, sit down under this shadowed tree, and I will promises never to forsake you, so you will grant to me ij▪ a lo-vers fee, whereat she smiled ij ij she smiled and kindly to me said, I never meant to live, to live and die a maid, whereat she smiled ij whereat she smiled she smiled and kindly to me said, I never meant to. live to. live, and die a maid. IX. Compare me to the child that plays with fire that plays with fire that plays with fire with fire ij ij with fire, or to the fly, or to the fly that dieth in the flame, ij or to the foolish boy ij that did as-pire ij to touch the glory of high heavens frame, no man to these me fit-ly can com-pare, no ij these live to die ij ij I die ij ij ij I die to live in care, no man to these me fit-ly can con-pare, ij these live to die ij ij I die ij ij ij I die to live in care. X. WHo would have thought who would have thought that face of thine, who would have thought that face of thine had been so full, had ij so full of double-nes, ij or that within those crystal eyen ij had been so much so much ij unstableness: thy face so fair ij thy look so strange ij thy look so strange, thy look so strange, who would have thought of such a change? ij who would have thought of such a change, of such a change? XI. For the love of his most dear friend EDMUND KEATE. Sweet friend thy absence grieves my bleeding heart thy ij yet do I joy yet ij yet ij yet do I joy ij I joy I joy, yet do I joy to hear of thy good health, ah ah woe is me, ah ij that now I shall departed from thee more dear to me then Croesus' wealth: but if on earth I may not see thy face, ij I'll fly to heaven I'll ij I'll fly to heaven I'll ij I'll fly to heaven, ij I'll fly to heaven ij, to seek thee in that place to seek thee in that place. XII. THe flattering words, sharp glosses, that men use to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares, to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares: with feigned looks, with feigned looks their gentle sex abuse, which yields nought else but grief and endless cares: but ij sometimes they smile & sometimes frown, but never pleased in deed, till time and place, till time and place, where they may watch their sorrows, their sorrows, their sorrows for to breed: sometimes they smile and sometimes frown, but ne- ver pleased in- deed, till time and place till time and place where they may watch their sorrows, their sorrows their sorrows for to breed. XIII. CEase now thy mourning & thy sad la- men- thing, ij for fair Au- ro- raes love- lie face doth light thee: thy mistress heart is now up- 'pon re- len- thing, thy ij vowing henceforth ne- ver more to spite thee: then harbour not those thoughts ij that still may grieve thee, ij that still may grieve thee, since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee, she ij since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee. XIIII. A Little pretty bony lass was walking was walking in midst of May before the sun 'gan rise, a little pretty bony lass was walking was walking in midst of May before the sun 'gan rise, I took her by the hand, I ij & fell to talking ij of this & that of ij of ij as best I could deuise, I swor I would, yet still she said I should not ij do what I would ij & yet for all I could not, & ij I swor I would, yet still she said I should not ij do what I would, do ij & yet for all I could not and ij XV. Fair Phyllis etc. Feeding her flock near to the mountain side, feeding her flock near to the mountain side: the shepherds knew not whither she was gone, but after her lover, her lover, but after her lover amyntas hied up and down up and down he wandered up and down he won- dread, up and down he wandered, up and down he wan- dread, he wandered, whilst she was missing, when he found her, oh then they fell a kissing oh then they fell a kissing, a kissing oh ij up and down up and down he wandered, up and down he wan- dread, up and down he wandered, up and down he won- dread, he wandered, whilst she was missing, when he found her, oh then they fell a kissing, oh then they fell a kis-sing, a kiss- sing, oh then they fell a kissing. XVI. TAke time while time doth last while time doth last, take time while time doth last, mark how fair fa-deth fast, mark ij beware beware beware beware if en- vie reign, if ij take heed of proud disdain, take heed of proud disdain of proud disdain hold fast, now in thy youth hold fast, hold fast now in thy youth, in hold fast now in thy youth now in thy youth, now ij in thy youth regard regard thy vow-ed truth regard thy vow-ed truth, thy ij least when thou wax-eth old, lest when thou waxeth old, thou ij least when thou friends fail, & love grow cold & love grow cold, and love grow cold. XVII. Of 8. voices. YOu blessed bowers whose green leaves now are spread spread-ing, shadow the sunshine from my mistress face, and you sweet ro-ses sweet roses only for her bedding, when weary she doth take her resting place doth ij she doth take her rest-ing place, you fair white lilies & pretty pretty flowers all, give your attendance ij give your at- tendance at my mistress call, give ij you fair white lilies & pretty pretty flowers all give your attendance, ij give your attendance at my mistress call, give your attendance at my mistress call▪ XVII. Of 8. voices. SECUNDUS TENOR. YOu blessed bowers. etc. shadow the sun- shine from my mis- tress face, & you sweet Roses & you sweet ro-ses on- lie for her bedding, when wea-ry she doth take her resting place, when ij her resting place, you fair white lilies & pretty pretty flowers all give your at- tendance ij at my mistress call, give your attendance give your at- tendance at my mistress call, give ij give your at tendance at my mistress call, give your attendance at my mistress call, THE TABLE. YOu pretty Flowers I Now each creature. TWO You'll never leave. III Lady my flame. The first part. IIII Sweet Lord your flame. The second part. V Soon as the hungry Lion. VI O stay sweet love. The first part. VII I thought my love The second part. VIII Compare me to the Flie. IX Who would have thought. X Sweet friend thy absence. XI The flattering words. XII Cease now thy mourning. XIII A little pretty bony lass. XIIII Fair Phyllis. XV Take time. XVI You blessed bowers, A song of eight voices. XVII FINIS. TENOR. THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS: TO Four Voices: Newly composed by JOHN FARMER, practitioner in the art of Music. Printed at London in Little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious-streete, Anno Dom. 1599 Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. VERO NIHIL VERIUS To the right Honourable my very good Lord and Master, EDWARD DEVERE Earl of Oxenford, Viscount Bulbeck, Lord of Escales and Badlesmere, and Lord great Chamberlain of England, JOHN FARMER wisheth long life, health and happiness with increase of honour. MOst Honourable Lord, it cometh not within the compass of my power to express all the duty I own, nor to pay the least part: so far have your Honourable favours outstripped all means to manifest my humble affection, that there is nothing left but praying and wondering. There is a canker worm that breedeth in many minds, feeding only upon forgetfulness, and bringing forth no birth but ingratitude: to show that I have not been bitten with that monster, for worms prove monsters in this age, which yet never any Painter could counterfeit to express the ugliness, nor any Poet describe to decipher the height of their illness: I have presumed to tender these Madrigales only as remembrances of my service and witnesses of your Lordship's liberal hand, by which I have so long lived, and from your Honourable mind that so much have loved all liberal Sciences: in this I shall be most encouraged, if your Lordship vouchsafe the protection of my first fruits, for that both for your greatness you best can, and for your judgement in Music best may: for without flattery be it spoken, those that know your Lordship know this, that using this science as a recreation, your Lordship have overgone most of them that make it a profession. Right Honourable Lord, I hope it shall not be distasteful to number you here amongst the favourers of Music, and the practisers, no more than Kings and Emperors that have been desirous to be in the roll of Astronomers, that being but a star fair, the other an Angels Quire. Thus most humbly submitting myself, my labours, and what ever is or may be in me, to your Lordship's censure & protection: I humbly end wishing your Lordship as continual an increasing of health and honour, as there is a daily increase of virtue, to come to happiness. Your honours most dutiful servant to command JOHN FARMER. To the Reader. THe present age being so beautified with excellent Poets and adorned with rare Musicians, amongst whom some by public writings make an elephant of a mouse: other by strange Paradoxes strive to attain pre-eminence: I have thought good amongst the rest, being as virtuously ambitious as any, to expose myself to the world, clothing my infant in humility, not ostentation, striving so far to avoid a peremptory opinion of mine own wit, as I take it an honour for me to ascribe the little I deserve rather to the master that taught me, than mine own diligence that form and fashioned my Muses: only this I protest for myself, that I have studied so much as in me lieth to observe a true decorum, which protestation I shall suppose for an indecorum also before it be ratified by your allowance and favours. Yet in these my Madrigales I beseech you esteem this, that I have not enforced the one to the other, but so fitly have I linked my Music to number, as each give to other their true effect, which is to move delight, which delight, as Socrates witnesseth in Plato's Philebo, is the daughter of Harmony. This virtue being so singular in the Italians, as only under that ensign they hazard their honour: I could advise the studious in Music so to employ themselves, that they might seem to be rightly borne under the sweet aspect of Venus, which, as the Astronomers witness, is the Dominatrix in musicans nativities: it is the only grace in a physician to follow this course, so to fit both note and number as if like Twins of one mother, they may seem to be all one which yieldeth great abundance of variety. To conclude, I so much love perfect harmony, as I earnestly entreat all the professed in Music to fly discord amongst themselves: though in composing of songs, it may be well taken, beseeching them so far to fly self-opinion also, that aiming all of them at their Country's honour, not their own glory, they may by this means and in this manner outstrip any stranger, and make England as famous in Musicians, as it is and hath been for soldiers: so leaving my labours to your favourable judgement, to keep secret what may be amiss. I take hearty leave. A friend to all lovers and Professors of Music john Farmer. I. YOu pretty flowers that smile for summers sake pull in your heads before my watery eyes do turn the meadows to a standing lake, by whose untimely floods your glow- rye dies▪ for lo my heart resolved to moistening air, fee-ding mine eyes ij ij which doubles tear for tear which ij which doubles tear for tear, for lo my heart resolved to moistening air feeding mine eyes ij feeding mine eyes which doubles tear for tear which ij which doubles tear for tear. II. NOw each creature joys the o-ther, now ij now each creature joys the o-ther passing happy days and hours: happy ij one bird reports unto another, un- ij reports unto another re - ij- ij by the fall of silver showers, whilst the earth our common mother, hath her bosom decked with flowers: one bird reports unto another, unto ij reports unto an- there re - ij- ij by the fall of sil- ver showers, whilst the earth our common mother, hath her bosom decked with flowers. III. YOu'll never leave still tossing to and fro still ij you'll never leave still tossing to & fro, still ij till at the last till ij you catch a fall: for wave- ring minds, for wave- ring minds doth always harbour woe, doth ij doth always harbour woe, losing true friendship, losing true friendship, love and all: be constant then and thou shalt find it best, to scorn the world, in hope to live at rest, to ij to live at rest, to scorn the world in hope to live at rest. FOUR The first part. LAdy my flame still bur-ning, still bur-ning ij & my consu-ming an- guish, doth grow so great, that life I feel to languish , oh let your heart be moved, oh ij to end your grief and mine & mine so long time proved, and quench the heat, and ij that my chief part so fireth, and ij yielding the fruit that faithful love requireth requi- reth, ij the fruit that faithful love requi- reth, and quench the heat ij that my chief part so fi- r and ij yeeld-ing the fruit that faithful love re-quireth re-quireth, yielding the fruit ij that faithful love re- qui- reth. V The second part. Sweet Lord, your flame still burning, and your continual an- guish cannot be more than mine, in which I languish, cannot be more than mine, in which I languish, nor more your heart is moo-ued, to end my grief, to end my grief and yours so long time proved but if I yield and so your flame decreaseth but if I yield and so your flame decreaseth I then lose my life my life I then lose my life, and so our love cease- eth: but if I yield and so your flame decreaseth but if I yield and so your flame de- crea- seth I then lose my life ij I then lose my life and so our love ceaseth. VI Soon as the hungry lion seeks his prey, ji in so-ly-ta-rie rang ij of pathless mountains of ij▪ soon as the passenger soon as the passenger soon ij sets on his way so soon as beasts resort so ij as beasts resort un-to the fountains so soon so soon so soon mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charging, and I my griefs ij my griefs with grea-ter griefs enlarging so soon so soon so soon mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charg-ing and I my grief my grief my griefs, with grea-ter griefs in- large- ing. VII. The first part. O Stay sweet love, O stay O ij O stay sweet love see here the place of sporting see here the place of sporting of sporting ij ij ij ij ij these gentle flowers smiles sweetly to in- vite us, and chirping chirping birds and ij ij are hither wards re-sorting sorting, warbling sweet notes ij only to delight us then stay dear love, than ij then stay dear love: for though thou run from me, ij for ij from me, from me, for though thou run from me, run near so fast so fast ij run near so fast so fast yet I will follow thee yet ij yet I will follow thee then stay dear love then ij then ij for though thou run from me run from me, for ij from me from me for though thou run from me run near so fast, so fast, run ij run ij so fast, yet I will follow thee yet ij yet I will follow thee. VIII. The second part. I Thought my love that I should overtake you, sweet heart sit down under this shadowed tree, and I will promise never to forsake you, so you will grant so you will grant to me a lo-vers fee, whereat she smiled, whereat she smiled, whereat she smiled she smiled and kindly to me said, I ne- ver meant to live to live and die a maid, whereat she smiled, ij ij she smiled, and kindly to me said, I ne- ver meant to live to live and die a maid. IX. COmpare me to the child that plays with fire, plays with fire, plays with fire ij ij ij or to the fly, ij or ij that dieth, ij in the flame, or to the foolish boy the foolish boy that did aspire aspire to touch the glory of high heavens frame: no man to these me fit- lie can compare, no ij these live to die, these ij these ij to die, I die ij ij ij I die to live in care: no man to these me fit- lie can compare, no ij these live to die: ij ij to die, I die ij ij ij I die to live in care X. WHo would have thought that face of thine had been so full of doubleness, so full of doubleness, of doubleness, or that within those crystal eyen had been so much so much had been so much unstableness? thy face so fair, ij thy look so strange, thy look so strange, ij thy look so strange, who would have thought of such a change a change, who would have thought ij who would have thought, of such a change? XI. For the love of his most dear friend EDMUND KEATE. Sweet friend thy absence grieves my bleeding heart, thy ij yet do I joy yet ij yet do I joy yet ij yet ij I joy yet do I joy to hear of thy good health: ah ah woe is me ah ij that now I shall departed from thee, more dear to me then Croesus' wealth, but if on earth I may not see thy face, but ij I'll fly to heaven, I'll ij I'll fly I'll fly I'll fly to heaven, I'll fly to heaven, to heaven to seek thee in that place, to seek thee in that place. XII. THe flattering words, sharp glosses that men use, the flattering words sharp glosses that men use, to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares: with fai- ned looks with fainned looks their gentle sex abuse, which yields nought else but grief and endless cares, but grief and endless cares: some times they smile and sometimes frown, but ne- ver pleased in deed, till time and place where they may watch wehre they may watch their sorrows their sorrows their sorrows for to breed, sometimes they smile and sometimes frown but never pleased in deed, till time and place where they may watch where they may watch there sorrows their sorrows there sorrows for to breed. XIII. CEase now thy mourning and thy sad lamen- thing, and ij for fair Aurora's lovely face doth light thee: thy mistress heart is now up- on relenting, thy mistress heart is now upon relen- thing, vowing hence- forth never more to spite thee: then harbour not those thoughts, than ij that still may grieve thee, that ij that still may grieve thee, since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee, she ij since that thy mistress swears, since ij she will relieve thee. XIIII. A Little pretty bony lass was walking in midst of May, be- fore the Sun 'gan rise: a little pretty bony lass was walking in midst of May be fore the Sun 'gan rise: I took her by the hand, I ij and fell to talking to talking and ij of this and that of ij of ij as best I could devise, I ij I swore I would I ij yet still she said I should not, do what I would do ij & yet for all I could not & ij I swore I would I ij yet still she said I should not do what I would do ij & yet for all I could not & yet for all I could not. XV. Fair Phyllis etc. fee-ding her flock near to the mountains side, feeding her flock near to the mountains side the shepherds knew not they knew not whither she was gone, but after her lover her lover but after her lover Amintas hied, up & down he wandered up & down up & down he wandered up ij up ij up & down he wandered up ij wilt she was missing, when he found her, oh? then they fell a kissing oh? ij a kis-sing oh? then they fell a kissing, up & down he wandered up & down up & down he wandered up ij up two up and down he wandered up and down he wandered whilst she was missing, when he found her oh? then they fell a kissing, oh ij a kissing, oh then they fell a kissng. XVI. TAke time while time doth last mark how fair fa-deth fast: be- ware if en- vy reign, take heed of proud disdain, hold fast now in thy youth, regard thy vow-ed truth, lest when thou waxeth old friends fail and love grow cold. Verte folium. XVII. SECUNDUS CANTUS. NOn blessed bowers whose green leaves now are spread spread-ing, shadow the sunshine from my mistress face, and you sweet roses on- lie for her bedding, when weary she doth take her resting place, when ij her resting place, you fair white lil- lies and pre- tie pre- tie flowers, all give your attendance ij at my mistress call, give your attendance, give ij at my mistress call, give ij you fair white lil- lies, and pretty ij flowers all, give your attendance at my mistress call, give ij my mistress call, give your attendance at my mistress call. XVII. YOu blessed etc. shadow the sunshine from my mistress face you sweet ro-ses ij on- lie for her bedding when wea-ry she doth take she doth take her rest-ing place, doth ij when weary she doth take her rest-ing place, you fair white lilies & pretty pretty flowers all give your attendance ij give your at- tendance at my mistress call, ij you fair white lilies & pretty pretty flowers all give your attendance ij ij give your attendance at my mistress call. ij THE TABLE. YOu pretty Flowers. I Now each creature. TWO You'll never leave. III Lady my flame. The first part. IIII Sweet Lord your flame. The second part. V Soon as the hungry Lion. VI O stay sweet love. The first part. VII I thought my love The second part. VIII Compare me to the Fly IX Who would have thought▪ X Sweet friend thy absence. XI The flattering words. XII Cease now thy mourning. XIII A little pretty bony lass. XIIII Fair Phyllis. XV Take time. XVI You blessed bowers, A song of eight voices. XVII FINIS. BASSUS. THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS: TO Four Voices: Newly composed by JOHN FARMER, practitioner in the art of Music. Printed at London in Little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious-streete, Anno Dom. 1599 Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. VERO NIHIL VERIUS To the right Honourable my very good Lord and Master, EDWARD DEVERE Earl of Oxenford, Viscount Bulbeck, Lord of Escales and Badlesmere, and Lord great Chamberlain of England, JOHN FARMER wisheth long life, health and happiness with increase of honour. MOst Honourable Lord, it cometh not within the compass of my power to express all the duty I own, nor to pay the least part: so far have your Honourable favours outstripped all means to manifest my humble affection, that there is nothing left but praying and wondering. There is a canker worm that breedeth in many minds, feeding only upon forgetfulness, and bringing forth no birth but ingratitude: to show that I have not been bitten with that monster, for worms prove monsters in this age, which yet never any Painter could counterfeit to express the ugliness, nor any Poet describe to decipher the height of their illness: I have presumed to tender these Madrigales only as remembrances of my service and witnesses of your Lordship's liberal hand, by which I have so long lived, and from your Honourable mind that so much have loved all liberal Sciences: in this I shall be most encouraged, if your Lordship vouchsafe the protection of my first fruits, for that both for your greatness you best can, and for your judgement in Music best may: for without flattery be it spoken, those that know your Lordship know this, that using this science as a recreation, your Lordship have overgone most of them that make it a profession. Right Honourable Lord, I hope it shall not be distasteful to number you here amongst the favourers of Music, and the practisers, no more than Kings and Emperors that have been desirous to be in the roll of Astronomers, that being but a star fair, the other an Angels Quire. Thus most humbly submitting myself, my labours, and what ever is or may be in me, to your Lordship's censure & protection: I humbly end wishing your Lordship as continual an increasing of health and honour, as there is a daily increase of virtue, to come to happiness. Your honours most dutiful servant to command JOHN FARMER. To the Reader. THe present age being so beautified with excellent Poets and adorned with rare Musicians, amongst whom some by public writings make an elephant of a mouse: other by strange Paradoxes strive to attain pre-eminence: I have thought good amongst the rest, being as virtuously ambitious as any, to expose myself to the world, clothing my infant in humility, not ostentation, striving so far to avoid a peremptory opinion of mine own wit, as I take it an honour for me to ascribe the little I deserve rather to the master that taught me, than mine own diligence that form and fashioned my Muses: only this I protest for myself, that I have studied so much as in me lieth to observe a true decorum, which protestation I shall suppose for an indecorum also before it be ratified by your allowance and favours. Yet in these my Madrigales I beseech you esteem this, that I have not enforced the one to the other, but so fitly have I linked my Music to number, as each give to other their true effect, which is to move delight, which delight, as Socrates witnesseth in Plato's Philebo, is the daughter of Harmony. This virtue being so singular in the Italians, as only under that ensign they hazard their honour: I could advise the studious in Music so to employ themselves, that they might seem to be rightly borne under the sweet aspect of Venus, which, as the Astronomers witness, is the Dominatrix in musicans nativities: it is the only grace in a physician to follow this course, so to fit both note and number as if like Twins of one mother, they may seem to be all one which yieldeth great abundance of variety. To conclude, I so much love perfect harmony, as I earnestly entreat all the professed in Music to fly discord amongst themselves: though in composing of songs, it may be well taken, beseeching them so far to fly self-opinion also, that aiming all of them at their Country's honour, not their own glory, they may by this means and in this manner outstrip any stranger, and make England as famous in Musicians, as it is and hath been for soldiers: so leaving my labours to your favourable judgement, to keep secret what may be amiss. I take hearty leave. A friend to all lovers and Professors of Music john Farmer. I. YOu pretty etc. pull in your heads before my watery eyes do turn do turn the meadows to a standing lake by whose untimely floods your glow- rye dies, for lo my heart resolved to moistening air fee-ding mine eyes ij which dubles tear for tear which ij which doubles tear for tear for lo my heart resolved to moistening air feeding mine eyes ij which doubles tear for tear which ij which doubles tear for tear. II. NOw each creature joys the other, now ij passing happy days and hours, passing happy days and hours, one bird reports un-to an other one ij reports un- to an o-ther, reports un-to an other, by the fall of sil- ver showers whilst the earth our common mother hath her bosom decked with flowers one bird reports unto an other one ij reports unto an other reports un-to an other by the fall of sil- ver showers whilst the earth our common mother hath her bosom decked with flowers. III. YOu'll never leave still tos-sing to and fro, still ij till at the last till at the last you catch a fall for wave- ring minds doth always harbour woe doth ij, doth always harbour woe, lo-sing true friendship love and all be constant then & thou shall find it best to scorn the world in hope to live at rest to live at rest, to scorn ij to live at rest to scorn the world in hope to live at rest. FOUR The first part. La dy my flame still burning, ij & my con-suming anguish, doth grow so great, doth ij that life I feel to languish, oh let your heart be moved, to end your grief and mine to ij so long time proved, and quench the heat that my chief part so fireth, yielding the fruit that faithful love re- qui- reth requi- reth yielding the fruit that faith- bookful love re- qui- r and quench the heat that my chief part so fi- reth yeel-ding the fruit that faith- bookful love re- qui- r requi-reth qui- reth yeel-ding the fruit that faithful love requireth. V The second part. SWeet Lord, and your continu- all anguish, can not be more than mine, in which I languish, can not be more than mine, in which I languish, not more your heart is moved, to end my grief, to end my grief, and yours so long time proved but if I yield and so your flame decreaseth I then lose my life, I then lose my life, and so our love ceaseth: but if I yield and so your flame decreaseth I then lose my life I ij and so our love ceaseth VI Soon as the hungry lion seeks his prey in so- ly-ta-rie rang in solitary rang of pathless mountains soon as the passenger sets on his way soon as the passenger sets one his way so soon as beasts resort so ij so soon as beasts resort un-to the fountains so soon so soon so soon mine eyes their office are dis-charg-ing and I my griefs my griefs with grea-ter griefs in-larg-ing so soon so soon so soon mine eyes their of-fice are dis- charg-ing and I my grief my grief with grea-ter griefs in- lar-ging VII. The first part. O Stay sweet love O stay ij O ij O stay sweet love see here the place of sporting see ij of sporting of ij of ij of ij of ij these gentle flowers smiles sweetly to invite us, and chirping chirping birds and chirping chirping birds are hitherward re-sorting sorting, warbling sweet notes ij only to delight us then stay dear love then ij then ij for though thou run from me, for ij for ij for though thou run from me run near so fast, run near so fast, run near so fast so fast, yet I will follow thee yet ij yet ij yet I will follow thee, then stay dear love then ij then ij for though thou run from me, for ij for ij for though thou run from me run near so fast, run near so fast, run near so fast so fast, yet I will follow thee yet ij yet ij yet ij VIII. The second part. I thought my love that I should overtake you: sweet heart sit down, sit down under this shadowed tree, and I will promises never to forsake you, so you will grant to me a lovers fee, whereat she smiled ij whereat she smiled and kindly to me said, I never meant to live, to live and die a maid, whereat she smiled ij whereat she smiled and kind-ly to me said I never meant to live to live, and die a maid. IX. COmpare me etc. with fire or to the fly, or ij that dieth in the flame, or to the fool-lish boy that did aspire as-pire to touch the glory of high heaven's frame, no man to these me fit- lie can compare, no ij these live, to die these ij ij I die ij I die I die to live in care no man to these me fitly can compare, no ij these live to die: these ij these live to die I die. ij I die I die to live in care. X. WHo would have thought, who ij that face of thine had been so full of dou- blenes, of doubleness, or that within those crystal eyen had been so much so much had been so much, had been so much unstableness? thy face so fair, thy look so strange, thy ij thy look so strange, thy look so strange, who would have thought of such a change? XI. For the love of his most dear friend EDMUND KEATE. Sweet friend thy absence grieves my bleeding heart thy ij yet do I joy yet ij yet ij yet do I joy I joy I joy, yet do I joy to hear of thy good health, ah woe is me, ah ij that now I shall departed from thee more dear to me then Croesus' wealth: but if on earth I may not see thy face, I'll fly to heaven I'll fly to heaven I'll fly I'll fly to heaven, to heaven I'll fly I'll fly to heaven to seek thee▪ in that place, to seek thee in that place. XII. THe flattering words, sharp glosses, the ij that men use to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares, to trap poor sil- lie women in their snares: with feigned looks their gentle sex abuse which yields nought else but grief and endless cares: and ij some times they smile & sometimes frown, but ne- ver pleased in- deed, till time and place where they may watch where they may watch, their sorrows ij their sorrows for to breed: sometimes they smile and sometimes frown but ne- ver pleased in deed, till time and place where they may watch, where they may watch, their sore- rows their sorrows their sore- rows for to breed. XIII. CEase now thy mourning and thy sad la-menting, for fair Aurora's lovely face doth light thee: thy mistress heart is now up- 'pon re- len- thing, vowing henceforth ne- ver more to spite thee: then harbour not those thoughts, them harbour not those thoughts, that still may grieve thee, that still may grieve thee, since that my mistress swears she will relieve thee, since that thy mistress swears she will relieve thee. XIIII. A Little pretty bony lass was walking in midst of may be- fore the sun 'gan rise, a little pretty bony lass was walking in midst of may be- fore the sun 'gan rise I took her by the hand and fell to talking of this & that of ij of ij as best I could deuise I swore I would I ij yet still she said I should not do what I would do ij and yet for all I could not and ij I swore I would, I ij yet still she said I should not do what I would do ij and yet for all I could not, and yet for all I could not. XV. Fair Phyllis etc. fee-ding her flock near to the mountains side, feeding her flock near to the mountains side the shepherds knew not whither she was gone, but after her lo- ver but after her lover Amintas hied, up and down he wandered he wandered up and down he wan- dread wilt she was missing, when he found her, oh? then they fell a kissing, oh? then they fell a kis-sing a kis-sing, oh? then they fell a kissing, up and down he wandered he wandered up and down he wan- dread whilst she was missing, when he found her oh? then they fell a kiss- sing, oh? then they fell a kiss- sing a kiss- sing, oh? then they fell a kiss- sing. XVI. TAke time while time doth last doth last take time while time doth last, mark how fair fa-deth fast, mark how fair fa-deth fast, beware beware beware beware if envy reign beware ij take heed of proud disdain, take heed of proud disdain take heed of proud disdain hold fast hold fast, now in thy youth hold fast hold fast now in thy youth, hold fast ij hold fast now in thy youth thy youth, now in thy youth now in thy youth now ij regard regard regard thy vow-ed truth, thy vowed truth, lest when thou wax- eth old, lest when thou least when thou waxeth old, thou waxeth old, lest when thou waxeth old friends fail, and love grow cold friends fail and love grow cold, and love grow cold, and love grow cold. XVII. Of 8. voices. PRIMUS TENOR. YOu bless- said bowers whose green leaves now are spreading, now are spread-ing, shadow the sunshine from my mistress face, ij and you sweet roses ij only for her ij bedding, when weary she doth take her resting place, ij when weary she doth take her resting place: give your attendance at my mistress call, give your at- tendance at my mistress call, give ij you fair white lilies and pretty pretty flowers all, give your attendance ij at my mistress call, give your attendance, give your attendance at my mistress call. XVII. Of 8. voices. PRIMUS BASSUS. YOu blessed bowers. etc. shadow the sun- shine from my mistress face, and you sweet Roses on- lie for her bedding, when weary she doth take her resting place, give your attendance give your attendance at my mistress call, give ij give your at- tendance at my mistress call, give your attendance at my mistress call, give your attendance give your attendance at my mistress call. THE TABLE. YOu pretty Flowers I Now each creature. TWO You'll never leave. III Lady my flame. The first part. IIII Sweet Lord your flame. The second part. V Soon as the hungry Lion. VI O stay sweet love. The first part. VII I thought my love The second part. VIII Compare me to the Flie. IX Who would have thought. X Sweet friend thy absence. XI The flattering words. XII Cease now thy mourning. XIII A little pretty bony lass. XIIII Fair Phyllis. XV Take time. XVI You blessed bowers, A song of eight voices. XVII FINIS.