MADRIGALS TO FOUR VOICES NEWLY PUBLISHED BY JOHN BENNET HIS FIRST WORKS. AT LONDON Printed in little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley. Cum Privilegio. M. D.XC.IX. ☞ CANTUS. ☞ TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, RALPH ASSHETON Esq; one of her majesties Justices of Peace, and Quorum: and of the Oier and terminer in the Country Palantine of Lancaster, and Receiver of her highness Duchy revenues, in the said County: and the County Palantine of Chester. RIght worshipful, It would be too tedious, to make particular declaration of your worshipful favours, from time to time, towards me. I having been hit hereto altogether unable, so much as to make any show of thankfulness for the same. And seeing it hath pleased GOD to make you many ways, a principal patron of my good: by means whereof, I have at length attained to somewhat, whereby I may manifest myself, a well affected member of the common wealth. I have thought it my duty, to present unto your worship, these first fruits of my simple skill. Beseeching you, favourably to accept them, as the endeavours of a young wit, and tokens of a thankful mind. And because I have always known you a favourer of all good exercises, and namely of Music: I am emboldened, to crave your worshipful Patronage of these my labours; whereby I shall be encouraged, to endeavour myself with all diligence, to put in practise some others, that may deserve better acceptation. Thus leaving them to your delightful recreation, and your worship to the protection of the most high, I humbly take my leave. Your worships in all duty, john Bennet. I. CANTUS. I Wander up, I wander up & down, & feign would rest me, ij. & fain would rest me, ij. rest me, Yet cannot rest, yet cannot rest, such cares do still molest me, yet cannot rest, yet cannot rest such cares do still molest me, All things conspire I see, ij. & this consent in, consent in, to find a place for me, a place for me, to find a place for me for me fit to lament fit to lament a place for me fit to lament in. II. CANTUS. Weep, weep silly soul disdained, disdained, ij. thy hapless hap ij. lamen- ting, lamenting, thy hapless hap la-menting, That love whose passion pai-ned , reached never thy contenting, ij. reached never thy contenting, thy con-tenting , ij. reached never thy contenting, ij. reached never thy contenting, thy contenting, And since thou art ij. disdai-ned, does- feigned, by them thou most affec-ted, ij. Let them be now rejected, ij. let them be now reiec- reiec-ted now rejected, ij. let them be now rejected, now reiec-ted let them be now rejected. III. CANTUS. SO gracious is thy sweet self, so fair so framed, ij. so fair so fra-med, that who so sees thee, who so sees thee, ij. that who so sees thee without a heart en- flamed, ij. without a heart inflamed, Either he lives not, ij. either he lives not, ij. or loves delight he knows not, or loves delight he knows not, Either he lives ij. either he lives not, or loves delight he knows not, or loves delight he knows or loves delight he knows not. FOUR CANTUS. LEt go, ij why do you stay me? ij Let go, ij. Let go, ij. let go, why do you stay me, I will for spite go run & slay me, I will for spite go run & slay me, go run & slay me, go ij. O new found tormen- thing, O strange dis- daining, I die for love, for love I ij. I ij yet feigned is my complaining, But you that say I feigned, now see what you have gained, ij. I will for spite go run & slay me, I ij. I ij. I ij. let go, let go jj. ij. let go, why do you stay me. V CANTUS. COme shepherds follow me, run up apace the mountain, run up apace the moun- ta'en, run ij. run up apace the mountain, See lo, ij. See lo besides the fountain, ij besides see lo beside the fountain, love laid to rest: How sweetly sweetly sleepeth he, How ij. how sweetly sleepeth he, O take heed come not nigh him, but hast we hence and fly him, and lovers dance, ij. with gladness, ij. with gladness, ij. with gladness, ij. for while love sleeps is truce with care and sadness. VI CANTUS. Ilanguish to complain me, I languish to complain me, with ghastly grief tormented, I stand amazed ', amazed ', to see you discontented, to see you discon- tented. Better I hold my peace, and stop my breath, then cause my sorrows to increase, ij. then cause my sorrows to increase, ij. and work my death. VII. CANTUS. SIng out ye Nymphs & shepherds of Pernas- sus, shepherds of Pernas- sus, Sing out ye Nymphs, and shepherds of Per- nassus, With sweet delight your me-ry notes consenting, with sweet delight your merry notes your me- ry notes consen- thing, consenting, Sith time affords to banish love relen- ting, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie still to grace us, sweet- lie to grace us, sweetly to grace us. Sith time affords to banish love relenting, fortune she smiles ij. sweet- lie still to grace us, to grace us, still to grace us, still to grace us. VIII. CANTUS. THirsis? sleepest thou? ij. sleepest thou? ij. Haul- lafoy, Holla, Holla, ij. let not for- row slay us, Hold up thy head man, ij. (Said the gentle Meli- beus, See Summer comes again, the country's pride ador-ning, ij. adorning, (Cuckoo Cuckoo singeth) ij. Hark how the Cuckoo singeth, (Cuckoo) this fair April morning. April ij. O said the shepherd & sight, as one all undone, let me alone a- 'las, & drive him back to London, ij. ij. ij. ij. to London. IX. CANTUS. YE rest- les thoughts, ij. that harbour dis- content, discontent, ij. cease your assaults, and let my heart lament, and let my heart lament, lament, And let my tongue have leave to tell my grief, that she may pity though not grant relief, ij, Pity would help (a- las) what love hath almost slain, almost slain, hath all- most slain, and salve the wound that festered this disdain, this does- deign, that festered this disdain. X. CANTUS. WHen as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses, & Lilies When as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, When as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phil-lis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses & with Lil- lies: I me complained ', ij. that she me nought re-garded, and that my love with envy was rewar- deed, Then wanton she smileth ij. she smileth & grief from me from me exi- let. Then wanton she smileth, ij. she smileth, & grief from me exileth. XI. CANTUS. Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast be- reft me, my heart thou hast be-reft me, Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast bereft me, ij. my heart my heart thou hast bereft me, And will not leave, ij. while a- ny life is left me, And yet, ij & yet, ij still will I love thee▪ And yet, ij. & yet, still will I love thee. XII. CANTUS. O sleep O sleep, fond fancy, fond fancy, ij. fond fancy, O sleep O sleep, fond fancy, ij. My head a- 'las thou ty- erest ij. thou tirest, with false delight of that which thou de-si- rest of that which thou desirest, of that, of ij. sleep, sleep, I say, fond fancy, ij. And leave my thoughts molesting, thy master's head hath need of sleep & resting, hath need of sleep and resting. ij. XIII. CANTUS. Weep O mine eyes, ij. weep O mine eyes, and cease not, (A-las) these your springtides, ij. me thinks increase not. O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown me in you, that I may drown me in you, O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown me in you, that I may drown me in you. XIIII. CANTUS. SInce neither tunes of joy, nor notes of sadness, Cruel unkind can move thee, I will go run a way, I will go run away, for rage, and madness, for rage and madness, Be- cause I will not love thee. O come again, again, ij. thy fruitless labour wast not, How wilt thou run (fool) how wilt thou run (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. O come again, again ij. thy fruitless la-bour wast not. How wilt thou run (fool) how wilt thou run (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. XV. CANTUS. O Grief, where shall poor grief find patiented hearing, Footsteps of men I fly, footsteps of men I fly, I fly, I fly, I fly, my paths each creature balking: Wild and un- haunted woods, ij. seem ti-red with my walking. Earth with my tears are drunk: Air with my sighs, tor- mented: Heavens with my cry-ing, ij. grown deaf, grown deaf, and discon- tented: ij. In- far- awl ears affrigh- affrigh-ted, with my doleful accen- thing: only my love, loves my la- men- thing, love's my la-men- thing, on- lie my love loves my lamenting. XVI. CANTUS. O Sweet grief, O sweet sighs, O sweet disdain disday-ning: O sweet re-pulses, ij. Sweet wrongs, sweet wrongs, Sweet la-menting. Words sharply sweet, ij. and sweet-ly sharp consen-ting, and sweet-ly sharp consenting, O sweet unkindness, sweet fears, sweet complaining. Grieve then no more (my soul) those deep groans stray-ning, Your bitter anguish now shall have re-lenting, re-lenting, And sharp disdains, ij. receive their full contenting. contenting. XVII. CANTUS. REst, ij. rest, rest now Amphi- on, Rest, ij. rest, thy charming liar, ij. thy charming liar, For Daphne's love (sweet love) makes melo- die, ij. for Daphne's love makes me-lo-dy, Her loves concord with mine doth well conspire, doth well conspire, ij. No does- cord jars, ij. no discord jars, in our love's sympathy, Our concord's have some discords mixed a- 'mong, Discord-ing concord's, makes the sweetest song, ij. dis-cor-ding con-cords ij. makes the sweet- test song. A TABLE OF ALL THE MADRIGALS. I Wander up and down. I. Weep silly soul disdained. II. So gracious is thy sweet self. III. Let go. FOUR Come shepherds follow me. V I languish to complain me. VI Sing out ye Nymphs. VII. Thirsis? VIII. Ye restless thoughts. IX. When as I glance. X. Cruel unkind. XI. O sleep, o sleep fond fancic. XII. Weep o mine eyes. XIII. Since neither tunes of joy. XIIII. O grief. XV. O sweet grief. XVI. Rest. XVII. FINIS. MADRIGALS TO FOUR VOICES NEWLY PUBLISHED BY JOHN BENNET HIS FIRST WORKS. AT LONDON Printed in little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley. Cum Privilegio. M. D.XC.IX. ☞ ALTUS. ☞ TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, RALPHE ASHETON Esq: one of her majesties Justices, of Peace, and Quorum, and of the Oier and terminer in the County Palantine of Lancaster, and Receiver of her highness Duchy revenues, in the said County, and the County Palantine of Chester. RIght worshipful, It would be too tedious, to make particular declaration of your worshipful favours, from time to time, towards me. I having been hitherto altogether unable, so much as to make any show of thankfulness for the same. And seeing it hath pleased GOD to make you, many ways, a principal patron of my good: by means whereof, I have, at length attained to somewhat, whereby I may manifest myself, a well affected member of the common wealth. I have thought it my duty, to present unto your worship, these first fruits of my simple skill. Beseeching you, favourably to accept them, as the endeavours of a young wit, and tokens of a thankful mind. And because I have always known you a favourer of all good exercises, and namely of Music: I am emboldened, to crave your worshipful Patronage of these my labours; whereby I shall be encouraged, to endeavour myself with all diligence, to put in practise some others, that may deserve better acceptation. This leaving them to your delightful recreation, and your worship to the protection of the most high, I humbly take my leave. Your worships in all duty, john Bennet. I. ALTUS. I Wander up & down, I wander up I wander up and down, & fain would rest me, ij. & fain would rest me, & feign & feign would rest me, & ij. Yet cannot rest, yet cannot rest such cares do still mo-lest me, yet cannot rest, yet cannot rest such cares do still molest me, All things conspire I see conspire I see, and this consent, & this & this consent in, to find a place for me ij. to find a place for me for me fit to lament in, fit to lament for me fit to lament in. II. ALTUS. Weep, weep silly soul disdained disdained ij. weep silly soul disdained, thy hapless hap ij. lamen- ting la- menting, That love whose passion pai-ned ij. reached never thy contenting, ij. reached never thy conten- ting thy contenting ij. reached never thy contenting thy con- ten- thing, reached ij. And since thou art ij. disdai- ned dis- dained and since thou art does- dained, by them thou most affec-ted, let them be now rejected ij. let them be now rejected now re-iected iected ij. let them be now rejected ij. let them be now rejected now rejected. III. ALTUS. SO gracious is thy sweet self, so fair so fra- med, So gracious is thy sweet self, so fair so fra- med, that who so sees thee, ij. without a heart en- flamed, ij. without a heart en- fla- med, Either he lives not, ij. either he lives not, or loves delight he knows not, or loves delight he knows ij. he knows not. Either he lives not ij. either he lives not, ij or loves delight he knows not, or loves delight he knows not FOUR ALTUS. LEt go: ij why do you stay me? why ij Let go, ij. Let go, let go, ji. why do you stay me? why ij. I will for spite go run & slay me ij I will for ij. ij. O new found tormenting, new ij O strange disdai-ning, I die for love, for love, I ij. I ij yet feigned is my complai-ning, But you that say I feigned, now see what you have gained. I will for spite go run and slay me, ij. go run and slay me, go ij. let go, let go, ij. ij. why do you stay me. V ALTUS. COme shepherds follow me, run up apace the mountain, run up apace the mountain, Come shepherds shepherds follow ij. See lo besides the fountain, see lo beside see jj. love laid to rest, to rest: How sweetly sweetly sleepeth he ij. How sweetly sweetly slay- p he, O take heed come not nigh him, but hast we hence and fly him, ij. and lovers dance, ij. lovers dance with gladness, ij. with gladness ij. glad glad-nes, for while love sleeps ij. ij. is truce with care and sad-nes, VI ALTUS. I languish to complain me, ij to come- plain me, with ghastly grief tor- mented, tormen- t, I stand ama'zd, to see you to see you discontented, to see you disconten-ted, Better I hold my peace, I hold my peace, & stop my breath, then cause my sorrows to in- crease in crease ij. increase, then cause my sorrows to increase, and work my death. VII. ALTUS. SIng out ye Nymphs & shepherds of Per- nas- sus, ye Nymphs & shepherds of Pernas- sus of Parnassus, ij. ye Nymphs & shepherds of Parnassus, shepherds of Parnassus, with sweet delight your mer- ry notes, with sweet delight your mer- ry notes con- sen- ting, Sith time affords, to banish love relenting, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie still to grace us, to grace us, still to grace us, still to grace us, Sith time affords, to banish love relenting, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie still to grace us, sweet- lie to grace us, sweetly to grace us. VIII. ALTUS. THirsis? sleepest thou? ij sleepest thou? ij Holla ij. let not sorrow slay us, Hold up thy head man, ij. (Said the gentle Meli-be- us) See Summer comes again, the Country's pride adorning, ij. Hark how the Cuckoo singeth, Cuckoo singeth, ij sing- eth, this fair April mor mor-ning. O said the shepherd (and sight, and sight) as one all un- done, Undone, let me alone a- 'las, ij. and drine him back to London. & ij. & drive him back to London▪ to Lon done. to London. IX. ALTUS. Ye restless thoughts ij that harbour discon- tent, ij. that harbour dis- content, cease your assaults, assaults, & yet my heart lament, ij. la- ment, And let my tongue, ij. have leave to tell my grief, that she may pity though not grant relief, ij. Pity would help a- 'las, ij. what love hath almost slain, ij. hath almost slain, & salve the wound that festered this disdain. ij. X. ALTUS. WHen as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, when as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses and with Lilies: When as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses & Lilies, I me complained ij. that she me nought re-garded, and that my love with envy was rewarded, rewarded, then wanton she smileth ij. she smi- let & grief from me exileth, then wanton she smileth ij. she smileth, and grief from me from me exileth. XI. ALTUS. Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast be- reft me, my heart thou hast thou hast bereft me, ij. Cru- ell unkind, Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast be- refst me, thou hast be- reft me, my heart thou hast bereft me, thou hast bereft me, & will not leave, ij. while a- ny life is left is left me, And yet, and yet, and yet, still will I love thee: and yet, ij. and yet, ij. still will I love thee. XII. ALTUS. O sleep, ij. O sleep fond fancy, fond fancy, ij. O sleep O sleep, ij. fond fan fancy, My head alas thou tie- rest, ij. thou tirest, ij. with false delight of that which thou desirest. ij of that ij. which thou de- sirest, sleep, sleep, I say, fond fancy, And leave my thoughts ij. mo-lesting, thy mastershead, hath need of sleep & resting, sleep & resting, need of sleep & rest- tinge. XIII. ALTUS. Weep O mine eyes, ij. and cease not, ij. weep O mine eyes, and cease not, (A-las) these your spring tides: ij. me thinks increase not, me thinks increase not. O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown, me in you, that I may drown me in you, O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown me in you, that I may drown me in you. XIIII. ALTUS. SInce neither tunes of joy, nor notes of sad-nes, Cruel unkind can move thee, I will go run away, I will go run a way, for rage, for rage and madness, Because I will not love thee. O come again, a- gain ij. thy fruitless labour waste not, How wilt thou run, (fool) how wilt thou run, ij. (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. O come again, a- gain ij. thy fruitless labour wast not, How wilt thou run, (fool) how wilt thou run, how wilt thou run, (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. XV. ALTUS. O Grief, where shall poor grief find patiented hea-ring, find patiented hearing, Footsteps of men I fly, I fly, I fly, my paths each creature balk-ing: Wild & un- haunted woods, unhaunted woods, ij. woods, seem ti-red with my walking. Earth with my tears are drunk: air with my sighs, tormen- t: Heavens with my crying, ij. grown deaf with my crying, grown deaf, and dis- conten conten-ted: ij. In- fernall ears affrighted, with my doleful accen- thing: only my love, loves my lamen- thing. love's my la-menting . on- lie my love loves my lamenting, lamen- thing. XVI. ALTUS. O Sweet grief, O sweet sighs, O sweet disdain disday-ning: O sweet repulses, ij Sweet wrongs, sweet wrongs, Sweet la-men- thing. ij. Words sharply sweet, & sweet-ly sharp consenting, con- centing, and sweet- lie sharp concen- thing, O sweet unkindness, sweet fears, sweet complay-ning. Grieve then no more (my soul) those deep groans straining, Your bitter anguish now shall have re- len- thing now shall have relenting, relenting, And sharp disdains, re- ceine their full contenting. ij. XVII. ALTUS. REst, rest now Amphion, ij. Rest, rest, rest thy charming liar, thy charming liar, ij For Daphne's love (sweet love) makes melody, ij. for Daphne's love, (sweet love) makes me-lody ij. Her loves concord with mine doth well conspire, doth well conspire, No discord jars, in our loves simpa- thy, ij. Our concord's have some dis- cords mixed a- 'mong, Discor-ding concord's makes the sweetest song, makes the sweet- test song, discording concord's, concord's, makes the sweet-est song. A TABLE OF ALL THE MADRIGALS. I Wander up and down. I. Weep silly soul disdained. II. So gracious is thy sweetselfe. III. Let go. FOUR Come shepherds follow me. V I languish to complain me. VI Sing out ye Nymphs. VII. Thirsis? VIII. Ye restless thoughts. IX. When as I glance. X. Cruel unkind. XI. O sleep, o sleep fond fancy. XII. Weep o mine eyes. XIII. Since neither tunes of joy. XIIII. O grief. XV. O sweet grief. XVI. Rest. XVII. FINIS. MADRIGALS TO FOUR VOICES NEWLY PUBLISHED BY JOHN BENNET HIS FIRST WORKS. AT LONDON Printed in little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley. Cum Privilegio. M. D.XC.IX. ☞ TENOR. ☞ TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, RALPH ASSHETON Esq: one of her majesties Justices of Peace, and Quorum: and of the Oier and terminer in the County Palantine of Lancaster, and Receiver of her highness Duchy revenues, in the said County and the County Palantine of Chester. RIght worshipful, It would be too tedious, to make particular declaration of your worshipful favours from time to time, towards me. I having been hitherto altogether unable, so much as to make any show of thankfulness for the same. And seeing it hath pleased GOD to make you many ways, a principal patron of my good: by means whereof, I have at length attained to somewhat, whereby I may manifest myself, a well affected member of the common wealth. I have thought it my duty, to present unto your worship, these first fruits of my simple skill. Beseeching you, favour ably to accept them, as the endeavours of a young wit, and tokens of a thankful mind. And because I have always known you a favourer of all good exercises, and namely of Music: I am emboldened, to crave your worshipful Patronage of these my labours; whereby I shall be encouraged, to endeavour myself with all diligence, to put in practise some others, that may deserve better acceptation. Thus leaving them to your delightful recreation, and your worship to the protection of the most high, I humbly take my leave. Your worships in all duty, john Bennet. I. TENOR. I wander up & down, ij. & feign would rest me, ij. & feign would rest me, ij. and feign would rest me, Yet cannot rest, ij. yet cannot rest, such cares do still molest me, yet cannot rest, yet can- not rest, such cares do still molest me, All things conspire I see, I see ij. conspire I see, & this consent in, To find a place for me, for me, ij. for me, fit to lament in, fit to lament in, fit to la- ment in. II. TENOR. Weep, weep silly soul disdained, disdained, weep weep sil- lie soul dis- day- ned, thy hapless hap, ij. lamenting, ij. thy hapless hap, lamenting, That love whose passion pai-ned , reached never thy conten- thing, ij. thy contenting, reached never thy conten-ting, ij. reached never thy con-tenting , reached never thy con- ten- ting. And since thou art, ij. disdained ij. and since thou art dis- dained, by them thou most affec-ted, thou ij. let them be now rejected now rejected, ij. let them be now reiec reiec-ted, ij. let them be now re-iec-ted- iec- t. III. TENOR. SO gracious is thy sweet self, so fair, so framed, ij. so gracious is thy sweet self, so fair, so framed: that who so sees thee, ij. who so sees thee. without a heart inflamed, ij. without a heart in- fla- med: Either he lives not, ij. ij. or loves delight he knows not, ij. he knows not, or loves delight he knows not. Either he lives not, ij. ij. or loves delight he knows not, ij. he ji. ij. FOUR TENOR. LEt go, why do you stay me? ij let go, ij let go, ij. let go why do you stay me? why ij why do you stay me? I will for spite go run & slay me, ij & slay me. O new found tormenting, new found tor- menting, O strange disdaining. I die for love, ij for love yet feigned is my complaining: But you that say I feigned now see what you have gained, now ij. ij. I will for spite go run & slay me ij. let go ij. ij. why do you stay me. let ij. V TENOR. COme shepherds follow me, run up apace the mountain, run up apace the mountain. See lo, Seeloe beside besides the fountain, ij besides the fountain love laid to rest to rest: How sweetly sweetly sleepeth he, ij. how sweetly sleepeth he. O take heed take heed, come not nigh him, but hast we hence and fly him, ij. And lovers dance, ij. with gladness, ij. with gladness, with glad-nes, for while love sleeps, ij. ij. is truce with care is truce with care and sadness. VI TENOR. I Languish to complain me, I languish to complain, to complain me, to complain me, with ghastly grief tor- men- ted, I stand amazed ', to see you discontented, does- con- tented, does- contented. Better I hold my peace, and stop my breath, them cause my sorrows to increase, ij. then cause my sorrows to in- crease and work my death. VIII. TENOR. Sing out ye Nymphs, & shepherds of Per- nas- sus, ij. Sing outye Nymphs, & shepherds of pernassus, shepherds of pernassus, with sweet delight your me-ry notes, with sweet delight your me-ry notes con- sen- ting, Sith time affords, to banish love relenting, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie, to grace us, sweet- lie, sweet- lie, sweet- lie still to grace us▪ sith time affords, to banish love re- len- thing, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie, sweet- lie sweet- lie to grace us, still to grace us, still to grace us. VIII. TENOR. THirsis? sleepest thou? ij. sleepest thou? ij. Holla, Holla, Holla, ij. let not sorrow sorrow slay us, Hold up thy head man, (Said the gentle gentle Meli-be- us) See Summer comes again, the country's pride ador-ning, ij. the country's pride a-dorning, Hark how the Cuckoo singeth, ij. singeth, Hark how the Cuckoo singeth, this fair April morning. O said the shepherd, & sight, ij. as one all undone, let me a- lone alas, alone alas, & drive him back to London, ij. to London. IX. TENOR. YE restless thoughts: That harbour discontent, discontent, ij. that harbour discontent, ij. cease your assaults, ij. and let my heart la- meant, ij. And let my tongue have leave to tell my grief, that she may pity though not grant relief, relief, ij, Pity would help (a- las) what love hath almost slain, ij. hath almost slain, & salve the wound that festered this disdain, this does- deign, that festered this disdain. XII. TENOR. WHen as I glance, ij. on my (sweet) tlovely Phil-lis, when as I glance, on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses, with Ro- says & Lilies, when as I glance, ij. on my (sweet) lovely Phil- lis, when as I glance, on my lovely Phil-lis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses, with Ro- says & Lilies, I me complained ', ij. I me come- plained, that she me nought re- gar- ded, and that my love with en- vie was rewar-ded, rewar-ded, Then wanton she smileth ij. and grief from me exi- let. Then IX. TENOR. Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast be-reft me, my heart thou hast be- reft me, thou hast bereft me, thou hast bereft me, my heart thou hast bereft, my heart thou hast be- reft me, And will not leave while a- ny life is left, is left me, And yet, ij. and yet, still will I love thee. And yet, ij. and yet, still will I love thee wanton she smileth, ij. & grief from me exi- let. XII. TENOR. O Sleep O Sleep, fond fancy, ij. fond fancy, ij. O Sleep O Sleep, O Sleepefond fancy, ij. My head alas, alas, thou ty- rest, thou ty- rest, thou tirest, with false delight of that which thou de-sirest, which thou desirest, of that which thou de-si- rest, which thou desirest, ij. Sleep Sleep I say fond fancy, ij. fond fancy, & leave my thoughts molesting, thy master's head hath need of sleep, ij. & resting, & resting, need, ij. XIII. TENOR. Weep O mine eyes, and cease not ij. weep O mine eyes, ij. and cease not, (A-las) these your spring tides: ij. me thinks increase not. O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown, that I may drown me in you ij. O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown, that I may drown me in you. ij. XIIII. TENOR. SInce neither tunes of joy not notes of sad sad-nes, Cruel unkind can move thee, I will go run a way, ij. I will go run, I will go run away, for rage and madness, Be- cause I will not love thee. O come again, again ij. thy fruitless labour waste not, How wilt thou run (fool) how wilt thou tun (fool) when thy heart thou hast nor, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. O come again, again ij. thy frutelsse labour wast not, How wilt thou runue (fool) how wilt thou run (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ji. when thy heart thou hast not. XV. TENOR. O Grief, where shall poor grief find patiented hea-ring , ij. Footsteps of men I fly, I fly, Footsteps of men I fly, I fly, my paths each creature balking: Wild & unhaun vnhaun-ted woods, ij. wild & unhaunted woods, seem ti-red with my walking. Earth with my tears are drunk: Air with my sighs, tormen- t: Heavens with my crying, ij. with my crying, grown deaf, and dis- conten- t: ij. In- far- awl ears affrighted, with my doleful accenting: only my love, loves my lamenting. love's my lamenting. ij. la- menting. XVI. TENOR. O Sweet grief, O sweet sighs, O sweet dis- disdaining: O sweet repul- ses, ij Sweet wrongs, Sweet lamen- thing. ij. Words sharply sweet, sharply sweet, & sweetly sharp sweetly sharp concen- thing, concen- thing, words sweetly sharp concen- thing, O sweet unkindness, sweet fears, sweet complaining. Grieve then no more (my soul) those deep groans straining, Your bitter anguish now shall have re-lenting , ij. shall have relenting, And sharp dsidaines, ij. receive their full contenting. XVII. TENOR. REst, rest now Amphion, ij. Amphi- on, Rest, rest thy charming liar, thy charming liar, For Daphne's love (sweet love) ij makes me- lody, for Daphne's love, ij. (sweet loan) makes me-lody, me-lody, Her loves concord with mine doth well conspire, No discord jars, in our loves sympathy, no discord jars, ij. in ou● loves sympathy. Our concord's have some discords mixed a- 'mong, Discording concord's makes the sweetest song, ij. discording concord's, ij. makes the sweetest song. A TABLE OF ALL THE MADRIGALS. I Wander up and down. I. Weep silly soul disdained. II. So gracious is thy sweet self. III. Let go. FOUR Come shepherds follow me. V I languish to complain me. VI Sing out ye Nymphs. VII. Thirsis? VIII. Ye restless thoughts. IX. When as I glance. X. Cruel unkind. XI. O sleep, o sleep fond fancy. XII. Weep o mine eyes. XIII. Since neither tunes of joy. XIIII. O grief. XV. O sweet grief. XVI. Rest. XVII. FINIS. MADRIGALS TO FOUR VOICES NEWLY PUBLISHED BY JOHN BENNET HIS FIRST WORKS. AT LONDON Printed in little Saint Helen's by William Barley, the Assign of Thomas Morley. Cum Privilegio. M. D.XC.IX. ☞ BASSUS. ☞ TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, RALPH ASSHETON Esq: one of her majesties Justices of Peace, and Quorum: and of the Oier and terminer in the County Palantine of Lancaster, and Receiver of her highness Duchy revenues, in the said County: and the County Palantine of Chester. RIght worshipful, It would be too tedious, to make particular declaration of your worshipful favours, from time to time, towards me. I having been hitherto altogether unable, so much as to make any show of thankfulness for the same. And seeing it hath pleased GOD to make you, many ways, a principal patron of my good: by means whereof, I have at length attained to somewhat, whereby I may manifest myself, a well affected member of the common wealth. I have thought it my duty, to present unto your worship, these first fruits of my simple skill. Beseeching you, favourably to accept them, as the endeavours of a young wit, and tokens of a thankful mind. And because I have always known you a favourer of all good exercises, and namely of Music: I am emboldened, to crave your worshipful Patronage of these my labours; whereby I shall be encouraged, to endeavour myself with all diligence, to put in practise some others, that may deserve better acceptation. Thus leaving them to your delightful recreation, and your worship to the protection of the most high, I humbly take my leave. Your worships in all duty, john Bennet. I. BASSUS. I wander up ij. & down, & feign would rest me, rest me, ij. & feign would rest me, Yet cannot rest, ij. such cares do still molest me, yet cannot rest, ij. such cares do still molest me, All things conspire I see, ij. & this conseut in, ij To find a place for me, ij. to find a place for me, ij for me, fit to lament fit to lament in. for me fit to lament in. II. BASSUS. Weep, weep silly soul disdained, disdained, ij. thy hapless hap ij. lamenting, That love whose passion pai-ned, pai-ned, ij. reached never thy conten- thing, ij. reached never thy conten- ting, ij. conten- thing, reached never thy conten- ting, thy contenting, And since thou art ij. disdained, by them thou most affec-ted, of- fected, ij. affec affec-ted, Let them be now reiec-ted, ij. let them be now rejected, reiec-ted, let them be now reiec reiec-ted now rejected. III. BASSUS. SO gracious is thy sweet self, so fair, so fra- med, so gra- tious is thyself, so fair, so fra- med: That who so sees thee, who so sees thee. ij. with out a heart in- flamed, ij. without a heart infla- med: Either he lives not, ij. or loves delight he knows not, he knows not, or loves delight or loves delight he knows not. Either he lives not, ij. or loves delight he knows not, he knows not, or loves delight or loves delight he knows not. FOUR BASSUS. LEt go: I will for spite go run & slay me, ij. I will for spite gorunne & slay me, go run & slay me, O new found tormenting, new found tormen- ting, O strange disdaining, I die for love, ij. yet feigned is my complai complai-ning, now see what you have gained, I will for spite go run & slay me, I ij. I will for spite go run & slay me go run & slay me, Let go let go ij. why do you stay me. V BASSUS. COme shepherds follow me, run up apace the mountain, run up apace the mountain, See lo, ij. See lo beside the fountain, ij love laid to rest: How sweetly sweetly slay- p he, O take heed come not nigh him, come not nigh him but hast we hence and fly him, And lovers dance, ij. with gladness, ij with gladness, ij. for while love sleeps, ij. for while love sleeps is truce with care & sadness. VI BASSUS. I languish to complain me, to complain me, I languish to complain me, with gast- lie grief tormen- t, I stand amazed, amazed, to see you discon- tented, discon- tented, Better I hold my peace, and stop my breath, then cause my sorrows to increase, ij. then cause my sorrows to in- crease, ij. and work my death. VII. BASSUS. SIng out ye Nymphs & shepherds of Per- nassus shepherds of Parnassus, ye Nymphs and shepherds of Parnassus, Sing out ye Nymphs and shepherds of Pernas- sus, with sweet delight your mer- ry notes, your ij. consêting, with ij. your ij. Sith time affords, to banish love re- len- thing, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie, sweet- lie, sweet- lie to grace us. still to grace us, still to grace us, Sith time affords, to banish love relenting, fortune she smiles, ij. sweet- lie, to grace us, sweet- lie, sweet- lie, sweet- lie still to grace us. VIII. BASSUS. THirsis? sleepest thou? ij. sleepest thou? ij. Haul- lafoy, ij. Holla, ij. Holla, ij. let not for- row slay us, Hold up thy head man, ij. (Said the gentle Meli- beus, Meli- beus.) See Summer comes again, the country's pride adorning, ij. Hark how the Coockoe singeth, ij. Hark how the Coockoe singeth, singeth, this fair April morning. O said the shepherd and sight, & sight, as one all undone, let me a- lone alas, & drive him back to London, to London. ij. IX. BASSUS. Ye restless thoughts: That harbour dis- tent, ij. dis- content, cease your assaults, ij & let my heart lament, ij. And let my tongue have leave to tell my grief, that she may pity though not grant relief, ij. relief, Pity would help (alas) what love hath almost slain, what love hath almost slain, ij. and salve the wound that festered this disdain, that festered this disdain. ij. X. BASSUS. WHen as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses & Lilies: When as I glance, ij. on my lovely Phillis, whose cheeks are decked with Roses, & Lil- lies: I me complained ', ij. I me complained ', that she me nought regarded, & that my love with en- vie was rewarded, rewarded, Then wanton she smileth ij. and grief from me exi- let, Then wanton she smileth, ij. & grief from me ex- i- let. XI. BASSUS. Cruel unkind, my heart thou hast be- reft me, thou hast bereft me, ij. my heart thou hast be- reft me, my heart my heart thou hast be- ref me, & will not leave, ij. while a- ny life if left me, And yet, and yet, and yet, still will I love thee. And yet, ij. and yet, still will I love thee. XII. BASSUS. O sleep, O sleep fond fancy, ij. fond fancy, fond fancy, ij. O sleep O sleep, fond fancy, fond fancy, My head a- 'las thou ty- erest ij. thou tirest, ij. with false delight of that which thou desi- rest ij. of that, ij. with thou de-sirest, sleep, sleep, I say, fond fancy, ij. And leave my thoughts moles- ting, molesting, thy master's head hath need of sleep & resting, & resting, need of sleep and resting. XIII. BASSUS. Weep O mine eyes, and cease not, ij. weep O mine eyes, (weep) and cease not, and cease not, (A-las) these your spring tides: increase not, me thinks increase not. O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown me in you, that I may drown me in you, O when, ij. begin you, To swell so high that I may drown me in you, that I may drown me in you. XIIII. BASSUS. SInce neither tunes of joy, nor notes of sadness, Cru- ell unkind can move thee, I will go run a- way, I will go run a- way, for rage, and madness, Because I will not love thee. O come again, again, ij. thy fruitless labour waste not, How wilt thou run, (fool) how wilt thou run, fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. O come again, again ij. thy fruitless la- bour waste not, How wilt thou run, (fool) how wilt thou run, (fool) when thy heart thou hast not, ij. when thy heart thou hast not. XV. BASSUS. O Grief, where shall poor grief find patiented hea-ring, Footsteps of men I fly, I fly, I fly, footsteps of men I fly, I fly, ij. my paths each crea- ture balking: Wild and un- haunted woods, seem ti-red with my walking. Earth with my tears are drunk: Air with my sighs, tormen- t: Heavens with my cry-ing, ij. with my crying, grown deaf, and disconten disconten-ted: ij. In- fernall ears affrighted, with my doleful accen- ting: only my love, loves my la-menting, loves my la-menting, on-ly my love love's my lamenting. XVI. BASSUS. O Sweet grief, O sweet sighs, O sweet disdaining: O sweet re-pulses, ij. Sweet wrongs, sweet wrongs, Sweet lamen- thing. ij. Words sharp- lie sweet, ij. and sweet- lie sharp consenting, consenting, and sweet-ly sharp con- centing, O sweet unkindness, sweet fears, sweet complayn-ing. Grieve then no more (my soul) those deep groans straining, Your bitter anguish now shall have re-lenting , now shall have relenting, re- lenting, shall have relenting, And sharp disdains re-ceive their full contenting. XVII. BASSUS. REst, ij. rest now Amphi- on, Amphion, Rest, ij. thy charming liar, thy charming liar, For Daphne's love (sweet love) makes melody, ij. for Daphne's love, makes melody ij. (sweet love) makes me-lody, ij. Her loves concord with mine doth well conspire, No does- cord jars, in our love's. simpa- thy, ij. Our concord's have some discords mixed among, This- cording con- cords, ij. makes the sweetest sweet- test song, makes the sweetest song. A TABLE OF ALL THE MADRIGALS. I Wander up and down. I. Weep silly soul disdained. II. So gracious is thy sweet self. III. Let go. FOUR Come shepherds follow me. V I languish to complain me. VI Sing out ye Nymphs. VII. Thirsis? VIII. Ye restless thoughts. IX. When as I glance. X. Cruel unkind. XI. O sleep, o sleep fond fancy. XII. Weep o mine eyes. XIII. Since neither tunes of joy. XIIII. O grief. XV. O sweet grief. XVI. Rest. XVII. FINIS.