COR⸫ ✚ MUSICA ✚ LAETIFICAT ✚  
LESSONS FOR 1. 2. and 3. Viols. BY Alfonso Ferrabosco.  
LONDON: Printed by THOMAS SNODHAM, for JOHN BROWNE, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunston's Churchyard in Fleetstreet.  
1609.    

TO THE PERFECTION OF HONOUR, My Lord HENRY, EARL of Southampton.  
WHilst other men study your Titles( Honourable Lord) I do your Honours; and find it a nearer way to give actions, than words: for the talking man commonly goes about, and meets the justice at his errors end, not to be believed. Yet, if in modest actions, the circumstances of singularity, and profession hurt not; it is true, that I made these Compositions solely for your Lordship, and do here profess it. By which time, I have done all that I had in purpose, and return to my silence:  
Where you are most honoured by Alfonso Ferrabosco.   

TO THE WORLD.  
Lest I fall under the Character of the vainglorious Man, in some opinions, by thrusting so much of my industry in Print; I would all knew, how little fame I hope for, that way: when beside his, for, and to whom they are, I aimed at no man's suffrage in the making; though I might praesume, that could not but please others, which I was contented had pleased him. But, as it is the error, and misfortune of young Children, oftentimes to stray, and losing their dwellings be taken up by strangers; and there loved and owned: So these, by running abroad having got them false Parents; and some, that, to my face, would challenge them; I had been a most unnatural Father, if I had not corrected such impudence, and by a public declaration of them to be mine( when other means abandoned me) acknowledged kind. This is all the glory I affected, to do an act of Nature and justice. For their seal, they had it in the Mint, or not at all: Howsoever, if they want it, I will ease myself the vice of commendation.  
Alfonso Ferrabosco.   

TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO.  

WHen we do give, Alfonso, to the light  
A work of ours, we part with our own right.  
For then, all mouths will judge; and their own way:  
The Learned have no more privilege, than the Lay.  
And, though we could all men, all censures hear,  
We ought not give them taste, we had an ear:  
For, if the humorous World will talk, at large,  
They should be fools, for me, at their own charge.  
Say, this, or that man they to thee prefer;  
Even those, for whom they do this, know they err:  
And would( being asked the truth) ashamed say,  
They were not to be named, on the same day.  
Then stand unto thyself, nor seek without  
For Fame, with breath soon kindled, soon blowneout.   
Ben: jonson.   

In load dell'arte, & dell' Authore, SONETTO.  

S'Ogni arte tanto piu da noi s'apprezza,  
Quanto ha piu nobil senso per oggetto,  
& quanto n'e peu degno il soggetto,  
Vince l'altre arti harmonica dolcezza,  
Quella a dare gusto & contento s'auezza  
Al nostro vdir, de sensi il piu perfetto;  
Per sogetto ha' numero uguale, & retto,  
& di bella aria, & tuoni la vaghezza.  
Questa arte dungue essendo di tall merto,  
Alfonso mio, chi d' Orpheo ports ill vanto,  
Conuien pregiarti, & quests tuoi concenti▪  
Tanto piu ch'essi con doppio concerto,  
A gl'istromenti attando il dolce canto,  
Di piacer doppio ne appagan le ment●.   
Gual: Quin.   

Lessons for the Lyra Viol.  

1  
The first Tuning. ALmaine. Coranto.   

2  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

3  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

4  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

5  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

6  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

7  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

8  
The second tuning. Pavin. Coranto.   

9  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

10  
Pavin. Coranto.   

11  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

12  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

13  
Pavin. Coranto.   

14  
Pavin. Coranto.   

15  
The first tuning. ALmaine. Coranto.   

16  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

17  
The third tuning. ALmaine. Coranto.   

18  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

19  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

20  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

21  
Pavin. Coranto.   

22  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

23  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

24  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

25  
GAlliard. Coranto.    

For two Viols.  

26  
The first tuning. ALmaine. Coranto.   

26  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

27  
The first tuning GAlliard. Coranto.   

27  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

28  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

28  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

29  
The first tuning GAlliard. Coranto.   

29  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

30  
The third tuning. GAlliard. Coranto.   

30  
GAlliard. Coranto.   

31  
ALmaine. Coranto.   

31  
ALmaine. Coranto.    


32 A Fancy for three Viols.  
 
 
  

33 A Pavin for three Viols.  
 
 
   

34 Prelude.  
Prelude. Prelude.  
FINIS.