cantus.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   


I.  
〈♫〉 FLy love aloft, to heaven and look out For- tune, Fly 〈♫〉 love aloft to heaven, Fly love aloft to heaven & look out Fortune, Then sweetly, 〈♫〉 sweetly, sweetly hir importune, That I from my Ca- listo best beloved, As you and 〈♫〉 she set down be never mo- ued, As you and she set down, {repeat} be never 〈♫〉 moved, And love, to Ca-rimel see you commend me, {repeat}see you come- 〈♫〉 mend me, Fortune for his sweet sake, {repeat}may chance befriend me. 〈♫〉 Fortune for his sweet sake, may chance befriend me, & love, to Carimel see you come- 〈♫〉 mend me, {repeat}see you commend me, Fortune for his sweet sake, 〈♫〉 {repeat}may chance befriend me▪ Fortune, &c.   

II.  
〈♫〉 AWay, {repeat}Away; Away, {repeat}away thou shalt not love me. A- 〈♫〉 way, {repeat}away; Away away away, thou shalt not love me. So shall my love seem 〈♫〉 greater, {repeat}So shall my love seem greater, {repeat}And I shall 〈♫〉 love the better, And I shall love the better, shall it be so? {repeat}what say you? {repeat} 〈♫〉 Why speak you not, why speak you not I pray you? Nay then I know you love 〈♫〉 me, you love me, Nay then I know you love me, you love me, That so you may dis- 〈♫〉 prove me. Nay then I know you love me, Nay then I know you love me, That 〈♫〉 so you may disprove me. That so you may disprove me.   

III.  
〈♫〉 AY me, Can every rumour, Thus start my Ladies hu- mor? ay 〈♫〉 me, Can every rue- mor, Thus start, {repeat} {repeat}my Ladies hu- mor? 〈♫〉 Name ye some gallant to hir; {repeat}why strait forsooth I woe hir, Then 〈♫〉 burst she forth in pas-sion, {repeat}You men love but for fashion, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Yet sure I am that no man, ever so loved woman, Yet a- las 〈♫〉 love be wa-ry, {repeat}For women be contra-ry. Yet sure I am that no 〈♫〉 man, Yet sure I am that no man, ever so loved woman, Yet a-las love be wa-ry, be 〈♫〉 wa-ry, For women be con-trary.   

IIII.  
〈♫〉 weep O mine eyes, Weep o mine eyes & cease not: Your spring tides 〈♫〉 out alas, out alas, out alas, me thinks increase not, Your spring tides, out alas me 〈♫〉 thinks, me thinks increase not: Weep o mine eyes, Weep o mine eyes & cease not: Your 〈♫〉 spring tides, out alas, out alas, out a-las, out a-las, me thinks increase not. Your spring tides 〈♫〉 out a-las me thinks, me thinks increase not. O when, o when begin you, {repeat} 〈♫〉 To swell so high, to swell so high, that I may drown me in you? O when, o 〈♫〉 when bee- gin you, {repeat}beginne you, to swell so high, that 〈♫〉 I may drown me in you.   

V.  
〈♫〉 DEere pity how? ah how? {repeat}wouldst thou become her, dear pity 〈♫〉 how? ah how? wouldst thou be- come her? That best becometh beauties best at- 〈♫〉 tiring, Shall my desert, {repeat} {repeat}Shal my desert deserve no favour from her? 〈♫〉 But still to wast myself in deep admi- ring, {repeat}Like him that 〈♫〉 calls to echo to relieve him, {repeat}Still tells and hears the 〈♫〉 tale, {repeat}Oh tale that grieves him. Like him that calls to echo to relieve 〈♫〉 him, {repeat}Still tells and hears the tale, {repeat}Oh tale 〈♫〉 that grieves him.   

VI.  
〈♫〉 ye restless thoughts, {repeat} {repeat}that harbour discontent, 〈♫〉 Cease your assaults: {repeat}and let my hart lament, ye restless thoughts, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}that harbour dis-content, Cease your assaults, 〈♫〉 and let my 〈♫〉 hart lament, And let my tongue haue leave to tell my grief, That she may pity, 〈♫〉 though not grant relief. {repeat} {repeat} 〈♫〉 pity would help, pity would help( alas) what love hath almost slain, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And salve the wound, that festered this disdain. pity would 〈♫〉 help, pity would help,( alas) what love hath almost slain, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And salve the wound, that festered this disdain.   
here endeth the songs of 3. parts.   


The first part. VII.  
〈♫〉 WHat needeth all this travail and turmoy- ling, shortening the 〈♫〉 lives sweet pleasure, {repeat}Shortning the lives sweet pleasure. To seek this 〈♫〉 far fetched treasure, To seek this far fetched treasure, {repeat}In those hot 〈♫〉 climates, In those hot climates, under Phoebus broiling. In those hot cly- 〈♫〉 mats, In those hot cly- mats, under Phoebus broiling.   

The second part. VIII.  
〈♫〉 O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer, In my sweet 〈♫〉 Ladies face, In my sweet Ladies face, {repeat} {repeat}Where Nature 〈♫〉 showeth, what ever treasure eye sees, or hart knoweth? Rubies and Diamonds deign- 〈♫〉 tie, {repeat}And orient pearls such plenty, & orient pearls such plen- tie, 〈♫〉 coral & Ambergris, sweeter & dearer, coral & Ambergris, sweeter & dearer, Then 〈♫〉 which the South seas or Moluccas lend us, Then which the South seas or Moluccas 〈♫〉 lend us, or either Indies, or either Indies, East or West, do sand vs.   

IX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what hope of speeding, where hope beguiled lies bleeding; She bad 〈♫〉 come, She bad come, when she spied me: And when I came she flide me, shee flyde 〈♫〉 me, Thus when I was begui-led, Thus when, Thus when I was beguiled, She at my 〈♫〉 sighing smi- lead. But if you take such pleasure, 〈♫〉 Of 〈♫〉 hope & ioy, {repeat}my treasure, Of hope & ioy, {repeat}my treasure, By de- 〈♫〉 ceipt to bereave me, to bereave me, By deeipt to bereave me, to bereave me, By de- 〈♫〉 ceipt to bereave me, By deceit, By deceit to bereave me, love me and so deceive 〈♫〉 me. love me and so deceive me.   

X.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, {repeat}the Roses sprouting, {repeat}〈 〈♫〉 〉 Lady, when I behold, {repeat}the Roses sprouting, {repeat}Which clad in 〈♫〉 damask mantells deck the arbours: {repeat}And then be- 〈♫〉 hold your lips, {repeat} {repeat}Where sweet love harbours, My eyes pre- 〈♫〉 scents me with a double, double doubting: a double double doubting: My eyes presents me 〈♫〉 with a double, double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, 〈♫〉 whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, Whether the Roses 〈♫〉 be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat}   

XI.  
〈♫〉 THus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down and talk 〈♫〉 together, and talk together, Thus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down 〈♫〉 and talk to- gether, Beware of love,( deere) love is a walking spirit, a walking spirit, 〈♫〉 And love is this and that, And O I wot not what, 〈♫〉 And comes and 〈♫〉 goes again, I wot not whether, {repeat}No, no, these are but 〈♫〉 bugs to breed amazing, No, no, these are but bugs to breed ama- zing, For in her eyes 〈♫〉 I saw his torch light bla- zing.   

XII.  
〈♫〉 adieu, adieu, adieu sweet A- marillis, {repeat}A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu, adieu sweet A-marillis: For since to part, to part your will is, adieu, A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu sweet Amarillis, adieu sweet Amaril- lis, adieu, adieu, adieu, sweet 〈♫〉 A-marillis: For since to part, to part your will is, O heavy ty- ding, here is for 〈♫〉 me no biding: Yet once again, Yet once again, again ere that I part with you, Yet 〈♫〉 once again, Yet once again, again, Ere that I part with you, A- marillis, Amaril- lis, 〈♫〉 sweet adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu sweet A- marillis, Amaril- lis, sweet adieu.   
here endeth the songs of 4. parts.   


XIII.  
〈♫〉 die hapless man, {repeat}Since she denies thee grace: die hapless 〈♫〉 man, die hapless man {repeat}Since she denies thee grace, die and despair, sith 〈♫〉 she doth scorn to love thee: Farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, Fare- 〈♫〉 well most fair( Farewell) though thou dost fair deface, Farewell most fair,( Farewell) 〈♫〉 though thou dost fair deface, Sith for my duteous love, thou dost re- prove 〈♫〉 me: Sith for my duteous love, thou dost reprove me, {repeat}Those 〈♫〉 smiling eyes, that sometimes me revived, {repeat}Clowded with 〈♫〉 frowns, {repeat}haue me of life deprived, clouded with frowns, haue me of 〈♫〉 life de- priued.   

The first part. XIIII.  
〈♫〉 I Fall, I fall, O stay me, {repeat}Deere love with 〈♫〉 joys ye slay me, {repeat}Of life your lips deprive me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Sweet, let your lips revive me, Sweet let your lips revive me: O 〈♫〉 whether are you ha- sting, and leave my life thus wa- sting? My health on 〈♫〉 you rely- king, {repeat}My health on you re- lying, 'twere sin to 〈♫〉 leave me dying. My health on you rely- king, {repeat}My 〈♫〉 health on you relyeing, rely- king, 'twere sin to leave me dying, to leave me 〈♫〉 die- king.   

The second part. XV.  
〈♫〉 AND though my love abounding, Did make me fall a sounding, 〈♫〉 {repeat}Yet am I well contented, {repeat}Stil 〈♫〉 so to bee tormen- ted: Yet am I well contented, Still so to bee tormen- 〈♫〉 ted. {repeat}And death can never fear me, As long as you are near 〈♫〉 me. And death can never fear me, As long as you are near me.   

The first part. XVI.  
〈♫〉 I always beg, Yet never am relieved: {repeat} 〈♫〉 I always beg, {repeat} {repeat}I always beg, Yet never am re- 〈♫〉 leeued: I grieve, because my griefs are not believed: I grieve, because my griefs are 〈♫〉 not believed: I cry a-loud in vain, my voice out stretched, my voice out stretched: 〈♫〉 And get but this, mine echo calls me wretched, {repeat}mine echo 〈♫〉 calls me wretched. mine echo calls me wretched.   

The second part. XVII.  
〈♫〉 THus love commands, That I in vain complain me, That I in 〈♫〉 vain complain me: {repeat}That I in vain complain me: And sorrow 〈♫〉 will, That she shall still disdain me, That she shall still disdain me: Yet did I 〈♫〉 hope, Which hope my life prolonged, Which hope my life pro- lon- ged, To 〈♫〉 hear hir say( a- las) his love was wron- ged. To hear hir say( a- las) a- 〈♫〉 las his love was wron- ged.   

XVIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, your words do spite me, your words do spite me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Yet your sweet lips so soft, kiss and delight me: {repeat}Your 〈♫〉 deeds my hart surcharged with over joying, Your taunts my life destroying. {repeat} 〈♫〉 Since both haue force to spill me, Let kisses sweet, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Sweet kill me: Let kisses sweet, {repeat}Sweet kill me: Knights fight with swords & 〈♫〉 laun- ces, Fight you with smi- ling glaunces, So like Swans of Leander, my 〈♫〉 ghost from hence shall wander. Singing and dy- king, Sing- king and dying.   

XIX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what a wretched life is this, Nay, what a death, where the tyrant 〈♫〉 love commandeth? My flowering daies are in their prime declining, All my proud 〈♫〉 hope, quiter fallen, and life vntwining: My joys each after other, {repeat}In 〈♫〉 hast are fly- king, And leave me dying, For hir that scorns my crying: 〈♫〉 O shee from hence departs, {repeat}My love refraining, For whom all 〈♫〉 heartless, A- las, I die complaining.   

XX.  
〈♫〉 unkind, O stay thy fly- king, And if I needs must die, {repeat} 〈♫〉 pitty me dy- king, But in thee, my hart, my hart is lying, And no 〈♫〉 death can as- sail me, Alas till life doth fail thee, {repeat}O therfore, 〈♫〉 O therfore, If the Fates, bid thee be fleeting, Stay for me, {repeat} {repeat}whose poor 〈♫〉 hart, thou hast in keeping. O therfore, O therfore, If the Fates bid thee be fleeting, 〈♫〉 Stay for me, Stay for me, Stay for me, whose poor hart thou hast in keeping.   

XXI.  
〈♫〉 I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure, where then I list, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}or time served best and leisure, While Daphne did invite me, 〈♫〉 To supper once, and dranck to me to spite me. I smiled: yet still did doubt 〈♫〉 hir, {repeat}And dranck where shee had dranck before, {repeat} 〈♫〉 to flout hir. But o while I did eye hir, But o while I did eye hir, 〈♫〉 {repeat} {repeat}But o while I did eye hir, mine 〈♫〉 eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fire. But o while I die eye hir, did eye 〈♫〉 hir, But o while I did eye hir, {repeat} {repeat}But o while 〈♫〉 I did eye hir, Mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fi- er.   

XXII.  
〈♫〉 FLo-ra gave me fairest flowers, {repeat}none so fair, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}In Floras treasure, none so fair, {repeat} {repeat}In Floras treasure: These I 〈♫〉 placed on Phillis Bowers, She was pleased, {repeat} {repeat}And she my pleasure, 〈♫〉 She was pleased, 〈♫〉 〈♫〉 And she my plea- sure: Smiling meadows seem to 〈♫〉 say, Come ye wantons, here to play. Smiling meadows seem to say, Come ye 〈♫〉 wantons, here to play, Come here to play. Come ye wantons, here to play, to 〈♫〉 play, Come ye wantons, here to play, {repeat} {repeat}to play, come ye 〈♫〉 wantons, here to play, to play. Come, come ye wantons here to play.   
here endeth the songs of 5. parts.   


XXIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glory, Subdue her hart, 〈♫〉 who makes me glad and sorry, & sorry, Out of thy golden quiver: take thou thy 〈♫〉 strongest arrow, {repeat}That will through bone and marrow, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And me and thee, {repeat}And me and thee, of grief and 〈♫〉 fear deli- uer: But come behind, for if shee look upon thee, A-las 〈♫〉 poor love, {repeat}Then thou art woe beegon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, the Roses sprou- thing, {repeat}The Roses 〈♫〉 sprou-ting {repeat}which clad in damask mantells, {repeat}deck the ar- 〈♫〉 bours: And then behold your lips, where sweet love harbours, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And then behold, {repeat}your lips, where sweet love harbours, My eyes presents me, 〈♫〉 {repeat}with a double, double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind 〈♫〉 supposes, whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the roses▪ whether the roses be your 〈♫〉 lips, whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}For viewing both a like, hardly my mind suppo- 〈♫〉 ses, whether the Roses bee your lips, whether the Roses be your lips, or your 〈♫〉 lips the Roses. {repeat} {repeat}   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shall my wretched life give place to death? When shall my 〈♫〉 wretched life give place to death? That my sad cares may be enforced to leave me: 〈♫〉 Come saddest shadow, Come saddest shadow, stop my vital breath, For I am thine, 〈♫〉 Then let not care bereave thee, Of thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, But with 〈♫〉 thy fatal dart, Kill care, and me, While care lies at my hart. Kill care, and me, 〈♫〉 While care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, & pleasing pains, Of joys, & plesing pains, I late went 〈♫〉 singing, {repeat}I late went singing, O joys with pains, o 〈♫〉 pains with joys consenting: And little thought as then of now repenting: And little 〈♫〉 thought as then of now repenting: But now, think of my then sweet bitter stinging: 〈♫〉 All day long, I my hands, A- las a- las go wringing, The baleful notes, of which my 〈♫〉 sad tormenting, Are, ruth, & mone, frights, sobs, & loud lamenting, From hills and 〈♫〉 dales, From hills and dales in my dull ears still ringing.   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse with skriking: with skriking, 〈♫〉 {repeat}My rests, are sighs, {repeat}Deep from the hart root fetched: My song runs 〈♫〉 all on sharps, & with oft stri-king, time on my breast, {repeat}I shrink with hands out 〈♫〉 stretched: {repeat}out stretched: Thus still, and still I sing, And near am 〈♫〉 linning: Thus still, & still I sing, and near am linning: {repeat} 〈♫〉 For still the close, points to my first beginning. Thus still and still I sing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 and near am linning: Thus still, and still I sing, and near am linning: {repeat} 〈♫〉 For still the close, points to my first beginning. 〈♫〉   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold, {repeat}my heavy ending, cruel behold, my 〈♫〉 heavy ending, See what you wrought, See, what you wrought, by your disdaining, {repeat} 〈♫〉 See what you wrought by your dis- dayning, causeless I die, love 〈♫〉 still attending, Your hopeless pitty, pitty of my complaining: Your hopeless pitty of my 〈♫〉 complaining, Suffer those eyes which thus haue slain me, {repeat}With 〈♫〉 speed, to end their killing power: So shall you prove how love doth pain me: 〈♫〉 And see me die, And see me die still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, And loues delight thou wai'st not: {repeat} 〈♫〉 o take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st not▪ 〈♫〉 O take time while thou may'st, {repeat}Least when thou wouldst, thou may'st 〈♫〉 not. If love shall then assail thee, {repeat} {repeat}A double 〈♫〉 double anguish, {repeat}will torment thee: And thou wilt wish,( But wishes 〈♫〉 all will fail thee,) O me, that I were young again, O me, that I were young a- 〈♫〉 gain; And so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And so repent thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHY dost thou shoot, Why dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield 〈♫〉 me? why dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me I yield( sweet love) {repeat} 〈♫〉 Spare then my wounded liver, and do not make my hart, And do not make my 〈♫〉 hart, {repeat}thy arrows quiver. O hold; O hold; What needs this shooting, 〈♫〉 when I yield me. What needs this shooting, when I yield me? O hold, O hold, what 〈♫〉 needs this shooting, when I yield me? What needs this shoo- thing, What needs this 〈♫〉 shoo- thing, {repeat}when I yield me.  
FINIS.    

QVINTVS.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   


XIII.  
〈♫〉 die hapless man, {repeat}Since she denies thee grace: die 〈♫〉 hapless man {repeat} {repeat}Since she denies thee grace, die and despair, sith 〈♫〉 she doth scorn to love thee: farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, though 〈♫〉 thou dost fair deface, {repeat}Sith for my duteous 〈♫〉 love, thou dost, thou dost reprove me: Sith for my duteous love, thou dost re- 〈♫〉 prove me: Those smiling eyes, that sometimes me revived, Clouded with 〈♫〉 frowns, Haue me of life deprived. clouded with frowns, haue me of life deprived.   

The first part. XIIII.  
〈♫〉 I Fall, I fall, O stay me, {repeat}Deere love with 〈♫〉 joys ye slay me, {repeat}with joys ye slay me, Of life your lips de- 〈♫〉 prive me, your lips deprive me, Sweet, let your lips revive me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 O whether are you hasting,( thus) hasting, and leave my life thus wasting? 〈♫〉 My health on you rely- king, {repeat} {repeat} 〈♫ 〉relye- 〈♫〉 king, 'twere sin to leave me dying. My health on you relyeing, My health on you 〈♫〉 rely- king, {repeat}Twer sin to leave me dying, to leave me die- king,   

The second part. XV.  
〈♫〉 AND though my love abounding, abounding, Did make me fall a 〈♫〉 swooning, Did make me fall a swooning, Yet am I well contented, Still so to 〈♫〉 bee tormented, Still so to bee tormented: Yet am I well contented, Yet am I 〈♫〉 well contented, Still so to bee tormented: And death can never fear me, 〈♫〉 As long as you are near me. And death can never fear me, As 〈♫〉 long as you are near me.   

The first part. XVI.  
〈♫〉 I always beg, I always beg, Yet never am relieved: I always 〈♫〉 beg, I always beg, Yet never am relieved: I always beg, Yet never am relee- ued: 〈♫〉 I grieve, because my griefs are not believed, are not believed: I grieve, because my 〈♫〉 griefs are not believed: I cry a loud, I cry a loud in vain, my voice out 〈♫〉 stretched, And get but this, {repeat}mine echo calls me wretched, {repeat} 〈♫〉 mine echo calls me wretched.   

The second part. XVII.  
〈♫〉 THus love commands, That I in vain complain me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 That I in vain complain me: That I in vain complain me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And sorrow will, That she shall still disdain me, That she shall still disdain me, Yet 〈♫〉 did I hope, which hope my life pro-lon- ged, Which hope my life prolonged, to 〈♫〉 hear hir say( alas) his love was wronged. To hear hir say( a- las) his love was wronged.   

XVIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, your words do spite me, Yet your sweet lips, so 〈♫〉 soft, kiss and delight me: kiss & delight me: Your deeds my hart surcharged with 〈♫〉 over joying, Your taunts my life destroying, my life destroying. Since both haue 〈♫〉 force to spill me, {repeat}Let kisses sweet, {repeat}Sweet kill me, Let 〈♫〉 kisses sweet, {repeat}Sweet kill me: Knights fight with swords and lances, Fight 〈♫〉 you with smiling glaun- ces: So like Swans of Leander, my ghost from hence shal wan- 〈♫〉 der, Singing and dying. Singing and dy- king.   

XIX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what a wretched life is this? Nay, what a death, where the tyrant 〈♫〉 love common- death? My flowering daies are in their prime declining, {repeat} 〈♫〉 All my proud hope, quiter fallen, {repeat}and life vn- twining: My joys each 〈♫〉 after other, {repeat}In hast are flying, And leave me dying, For her that 〈♫〉 scorns my crying: O she from hence departs, {repeat}My love refraining, For 〈♫〉 whom all heartless, A- las, I die complaining.   

XX.  
〈♫〉 unkind, O stay thy fly- king, And if I needs must 〈♫〉 die, pitty me, pity me dying: But in thee, my hart, my hart is lying, And no 〈♫〉 death, can as- sail me, Alas till life doth fail thee, Alas, till life, {repeat}doth 〈♫〉 fail thee, O therefore, {repeat}If the Fates, bid thee be fleeting, Stay for me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Stay for me, whose poor hart, thou hast in keeping. O therfore, {repeat}If the 〈♫〉 Fates bid thee bee fleeting, Stay for me, {repeat}Stay for me, whose poor hart thou 〈♫〉 hast in keeping.   

XXI.  
〈♫〉 I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies plea- sure, my thoughts and 〈♫〉 fancies pleasure, where then I list, {repeat}or time served best and lea- sure, While 〈♫〉 Daphne did invite me, To supper once, And dranck to me to spite me. I 〈♫〉 smiled yet still did doubt hir, I {repeat}dyd doubt hir, And dranck where she had 〈♫〉 dranck before, {repeat}to flout hir. But o while I did eye hir, did eye hir, 〈♫〉 But o while I did eye hir, {repeat} {repeat}But o while 〈♫〉 I did eye hir, mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fi- er. But o 〈♫〉 while I did eye hir, {repeat} {repeat} {repeat} 〈♫〉 But o while I did eye hir, Mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fi- er.   

XXII.  
〈♫〉 FLora gave me fairest flowers, {repeat}none so faire, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}In Floras treasure: none so faire, {repeat} {repeat}In Floras treasure. These I 〈♫〉 placed on Phillis Bowers, She was pleased, {repeat} {repeat}And she my pleasure. She was 〈♫〉 pleased, {repeat} {repeat}And she my pleasure: Smiling meadows seem to say, Come ye 〈♫〉 wantons here to play. Smiling meadows seem to say, Come ye wantons, here to 〈♫〉 play. Come ye wantons, here to play. to play. {repeat}Come ye wantons 〈♫〉 here to play. to play. Come ye wantons here, come, come ye wantons, here to play.   
here endeth the Songs of 5. parts.   


XXIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glow- ry, Subdue her hart, 〈♫〉 who makes me glad and sorry. Out of thy golden quiver, Take thou thy strongest 〈♫〉 ar-row, That will through bone and marrow, {repeat}And me and 〈♫〉 thee, of grief & fear deliver: And me and thee, {repeat}And me and thee, {repeat} 〈♫〉 of grief & fear deliver. But come behind, {repeat}for if she look up- 〈♫〉 on thee, Alas poor love, {repeat}Then thou art woe bee-gon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, the Roses sprou- thing, the Roses sprou- thing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}Which clad in damask mantles, {repeat}decke the 〈♫〉 arbours: & then behold, {repeat} {repeat}& then behold your lips, where sweet love 〈♫〉 harbours: {repeat}My eyes presents me, {repeat}with a 〈♫〉 double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, whether the Roses 〈♫〉 be your lips, whether the roses be your lips, or your lips the roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}For viewing both a like, hardly my mind 〈♫〉 supposes, whether the Roses bee your lips, or your lips the Roses. whether the Roses 〈♫〉 be your lips, whether the Roses bee your lips, or your lips the Roses. 〈♫〉 {repeat} {repeat}   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shall my wretched life give place to death? When shall my 〈♫〉 wretched life give place to death? That my sad cares may be enforced to leave me: 〈♫〉 Come saddest shadow, stop my vital breath,( Come) stop my vital breath, For I am 〈♫〉 thine, Then let not care bereave thee, Of thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, 〈♫〉 Kill care and me, Kill care, and me, While care lies at my hart. Kill care, and me, 〈♫〉 While care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, & pleasing pains, I late went singing: Of joys & plesing 〈♫〉 pains, I late went singing, {repeat} O joys with pains, O 〈♫〉 pains with joys consenting: And little thought as then of now repenting: and little 〈♫〉 thought as then of now repenting: But now, think of my then sweet bitter sting-ing: 〈♫〉 All day long I my hands, Alas go wringing, All day long I my hands Alas, Alas go 〈♫〉 wringing: The baleful notes, the baleful notes of which my sad tormenting, Are ruth, 〈♫〉 and mone, frights, sobs, and loud lamen-ting, From hills and dales in my dull ears still 〈♫〉 ringing. {repeat}   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse, my voice is horse, My throat is 〈♫〉 sore, my voice is horse with skriking: {repeat}My rests, are sighs, {repeat}Deep from the 〈♫〉 hart root fetched: My song runs all on sharps, {repeat}And with oft stri- 〈♫〉 king, time on my breast, {repeat}I shrink with hands out stretched: {repeat} 〈♫〉 Thus still, and still I sing, {repeat}And near am linning: thus still, & still I sing, & 〈♫〉 near am linning: {repeat}For still the close, points to my first beginning. 〈♫〉 Thus still & still I sing, & near am linning: Thus still, & still I sing, and near am 〈♫〉 linning: {repeat}For still the close points to my first beginning.   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold my heavy end- king, cruel behold, {repeat}my 〈♫〉 heavy ending, See, what you wrought, See what you wrought, by your disdaining, {repeat} 〈♫〉 See what you wrought by your dis-dayning, causeless I die, love 〈♫〉 still attending, Your hopeless pity of my complaining: Your hopeless pity of my 〈♫〉 complaining, Suffer those eyes which thus haue slain me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 With speed, to end, With speed to end, their kill- ling power: So shall you 〈♫〉 prove, how love doth pain me: {repeat}And see me die, And see me 〈♫〉 die still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, And loues delight thou wai'st not: {repeat} 〈♫〉 o take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st not: 〈♫〉 {repeat}O take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst, thou 〈♫〉 may'st not. O take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou mayst not: 〈♫〉 If love shall then assail thee, {repeat}A double double anguish, will for- 〈♫〉 ment thee {repeat}And thou wilt wish,( But wishes all will fail 〈♫〉 thee,) O me, that I were young again, O me, that I were young again; And 〈♫〉 so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And so rerepent thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHy dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me? Why dost thou 〈♫〉 shoot, Why dost thou shoot, & I seek not to shield me? I yield( sweet love) I yield, 〈♫〉( sweet love) Spare then my wounded liver, And do not make my hart, thy arrows 〈♫〉 qui- uer. And do not make my hart thy arrows quiver. O hold; O hold; What 〈♫〉 needs this shooting, when I yield me. What needs this shoo- thing, What needs this 〈♫〉 shoo- thing, {repeat}when I yield me? O hold, O hold, What 〈♫〉 needs this shooting, when I yield me? What needs this shooting, when I yield me.  
FINIS.    

ALTVS.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   


I.  
〈♫〉 FLy love aloft, to heaven & look out Fortune, & &c. 〈♫〉 Fly love: &c. Then sweetly, sweetly, sweetly her importune, That 〈♫〉 I from my Calisto best beloved, As you & she set down, be never moved, As you & 〈♫〉 she set down, {repeat}be ne-uer moved, And love, to Ca-rimel see you come- 〈♫〉 mend me, commend me, to Ca: &c. commend me, Fortune for his sweet sake, 〈♫〉 {repeat}may chance befriend me. Fortune for his sweet sake, {repeat}may 〈♫〉 chance be-friend me, & love, to Carimel see you commend me, commend me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 commend me, Fortune for his sweet sake, {repeat}may chance be- 〈♫〉 friend me. Fortune for his sweet sake, Fortune for his sweet sake, may chance befriend me.   

II.  
〈♫〉 AWay, {repeat}Away; Away, {repeat}away thou shalt not love me. A- 〈♫〉 way, {repeat}away; Away away away, thou shalt not love me. So shall my love seem 〈♫〉 greater, And I shall love, And I shal love the bet- ter, So shall my love seem 〈♫〉 greater, And I shall love the bet-ter, And I shall love, And I shall love the bet-ter, 〈♫〉 shall it be so? {repeat}what say you? Why speak you not, why speak you not I 〈♫〉 pray you? Nay then I know you love me, Nay then I know you love me, That so you 〈♫〉 may disprove me. That so you may disprove me. Nay then I know you love me, you 〈♫〉 love me, Nay then I know you love me, you love me, That so you may disprove me.   

III.  
〈♫〉 AY me, Can every rue- mor, Thus start my Ladies humour? 〈♫〉 ay me, Can every rumour, Thus start, Thus start my Ladies humour? Name ye some 〈♫〉 gallant to hir; {repeat}why strait forsooth I woe her, Then burst she forth 〈♫〉 in passi-on, 〈♫〉 You men love but for fa- shion, 〈♫〉 〈♫〉 Yet sure I am that no man, Yet sure I am that no man, ever so loved wo-man, 〈♫〉 Yet a- las love bee wa- ry, be wary, For women bee contra- ry. Yet sure 〈♫〉 I am that no man, ever so loved woman, Yet a- las love bee wa-ry, Yet a- las 〈♫〉 love bee wa-ry, For women be contra- ry.   

IIII.  
〈♫〉 weep O mine eyes, Weep o mine eyes & cease not: Your spring tides 〈♫〉 out alas, out alas, out alas, out alas, me thinks increase not, Your spring tides, out alas me 〈♫〉 thinks, me thinks increase not: Weep o mine eyes, Weep o mine eyes & cease not: 〈♫〉 Your spring tides, out alas, out alas, out alas, me thinks increase not. Your spring tides 〈♫〉 out alas, me thinks, me thinks increase not. O when, o when begin you, {repeat} 〈♫〉 begin you, to swell so high, that I may drown me in you? O when, o when be- 〈♫〉 gin you, {repeat}To swell so high, to swell so high, that 〈♫〉 I may drown me in you.   

V.  
〈♫〉 DEere pity how? ah how? wouldst thou become her, dear pity 〈♫〉 how? ah how? {repeat}wouldst thou become her? That best becometh beauties best at- 〈♫〉 tiring, Shall my desert, {repeat} {repeat} {repeat}Shall my desert deserve no fa- 〈♫〉 uour, deserve no favour from her? But still to wast myself in deep admiring, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Like him that calls to echo to relieve him, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Still tells & hears the tale, {repeat}Oh tale that grieves him. Like him that 〈♫〉 calls to echo to relieve him, {repeat}Still tells and hears the tale, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Oh tale that grieves him.   

VI.  
〈♫〉 ye restless thoughts, {repeat}Ye restless thoughts, {repeat}that 〈♫〉 harbour discontent, Cease your assaults: {repeat}& let my hart lament, ye restless 〈♫〉 thoughts, {repeat}Ye restless thoughts, {repeat}that harbour discontent, Cease your as- 〈♫〉 saults, {repeat}& let my hart lament, And let my tongue haue leave to tell my grief, to 〈♫〉 tell my grief, That she may pity, though not grant relief. {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}Pitty would help, {repeat}( alas) what love hath almost slain, 〈♫〉 pity would help, what love hath almost slain, And salve the wound, {repeat}that fe- 〈♫〉 stred this disdain, pity would help, {repeat}( alas) what love hath almost slain, 〈♫〉 pity would help, what love hath almost slain, And salve the wound, {repeat} 〈♫〉 that fest'red this dis- deign.   
here endeth the songs of 3. parts.   


The first part. VII.  
〈♫〉 WHat needeth all this travail and turmoy- ling, shortening the 〈♫〉 lives sweet pleasure, {repeat}Shortning the lives sweet pleasure. To seek this 〈♫〉 far fetched treasure, To seek this far fetched treasure, {repeat}In those hot 〈♫〉 climates, In those hot climates, under Phoebus broiling. In those hot cly- mats, 〈♫〉 In those hot cly- mats, {repeat}In those hot cly- mats, 〈♫〉 Vn- der Phoebus broiling.   

The second part. VIII.  
〈♫〉 O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer, O fools can you not 〈♫〉 see a traffic nearer, In my sweet Ladies face, In my sweet Ladies face, 〈♫〉 〈♫〉 Where Nature show- eth, what ever treasure eye sees, or hart knoweth? Rubies & 〈♫〉 Diamonds dainty, {repeat}And orient pearls such plenty, coral & Ambergris, 〈♫〉 sweeter & dearer, coral & Ambergris, sweeter & dearer, Thē which the South seas or 〈♫〉 Moluccas lend us, lend us, Then which the South seas or Moluccas lend 〈♫〉 vs, or either Indies, or either Indies, East or West, do sand vs.   

IX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what hope of speeding, where hope beguiled lies bleeding; She bad 〈♫〉 come, She bad come, when she spied me: And when I came she flide me, shee flyde me, 〈♫〉 Thus when I was begui- lead, Thus when I was beguiled, She at my sighing smiled. 〈♫〉 But if you take such pleasure, {repeat}Of hope & ioy my treasure, Of 〈♫〉 hope & ioy my trea- sure, {repeat}By deceit to bereave me, By de- 〈♫〉 ceipt to bereave me, {repeat}By deceit to bereave me, {repeat}Loue 〈♫〉 me and so deceive me. love me and so deceive me.   

X.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, {repeat}the Roses sprouting, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Lady, when I behold, {repeat}the Roses sprouting, {repeat}Which clad in 〈♫〉 damask mantells deck the arbours: {repeat}And then be- 〈♫〉 hold your lips, {repeat} {repeat}Where sweet love harbours, My eyes pre- 〈♫〉 scents me with a double, double doubting: a double double doubting: My eyes presents me 〈♫〉 with a double, double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, 〈♫〉 whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 For viewing both a like, hardly my mind suppo- ses, Whether the Roses be your 〈♫〉 lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat}   

XI.  
〈♫〉 THus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down and talk 〈♫〉 toge- ther, & talk together, Thus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down 〈♫〉 and talk together, & talk together, Beware of love,( deere) love is a walking spirit, & 〈♫〉 love is this and that, And love is this and that, And O I wot not what, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And comes and goes again, I wot not whether, {repeat} 〈♫〉 No, no, these are but bugs to breed ama- zing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 For in her eyes I saw his torch light blazing.   

XII.  
〈♫〉 adieu, adieu, adieu sweet Amarillis, adieu, adieu, adieu, 〈♫〉 adieu, adieu sweet Amarillis: For since to part, to part your will is, adieu, A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu sweet A- marillis, adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu sweet Ama- 〈♫〉 rillis: For since to part, to part your will is, O heavy tiding, here is for me, here 〈♫〉 is for me no biding: Yet once again, again ere that I part with you, Yet once a- 〈♫〉 gain, again, Ere that I part with you, Amaril- lis, Amarillis, sweet adieu, adieu, 〈♫〉 adieu, A- due sweet Amaril- lis, Amarillis, sweet adieu.   
here endeth the songs of 4. parts.   


XIII.  
〈♫〉 die hapless man, Since she denies thee grace: {repeat} 〈♫〉 die hapless man, Since she denies thee grace, {repeat}Dye 〈♫〉 and despair, sith she doth scorn to love thee: die and despair, sith she doth scorn to 〈♫〉 love thee, Farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, Sith for my duteous love, {repeat} 〈♫〉 thou dost reprove me: Those smiling eyes, that sometimes me reui- 〈♫〉 ued, {repeat}Clowded with frowns, {repeat}haue 〈♫〉 me of life depri- ued.   

The first part. XIIII.  
〈♫〉 I Fall, I fall, O stay me, O stay, I fall, I fall, O stay me, Deere 〈♫〉 love with joys ye slay me, {repeat}with joys ye slay me, Of life your 〈♫〉 lips deprive me, {repeat} {repeat}Sweet, let your lips revive 〈♫〉 me, {repeat}O whether are you ha- sting, and leave my life thus 〈♫〉 wasting? O whether are you ha- sting, and leave my life thus wa- sting? My 〈♫〉 health on you relyeing, {repeat}on you relyeing, 'twere sin to 〈♫〉 leave me dying. My health on you relyeing, {repeat}on you relyeing, 〈♫〉 'Twer sin to leave me dying, to leave me die- king.   

The second part. XV.  
〈♫〉 AND though my love abounding, Did make me fall a sounding, 〈♫〉 a soundlng, Did make me fall, did make me fall a sounding, Yet am I well conten- 〈♫〉 ted, Still so to bee tormen-ted: Still so to bee tormen- ted. Yet am I well con- 〈♫〉 tented, still so to be tormented, {repeat}And death can never 〈♫〉 fear me, As long as you are near me. {repeat}And death can 〈♫〉 never fear me, {repeat}As long as you are near me.   

The first part. XVI.  
〈♫〉 I always beg, Yet never am relee- ued: relieved: I always beg, I 〈♫〉 always beg, Yet ne- uer am relieved: {repeat}I grieve, be- 〈♫〉 cause my griefs, my griefs are not believed: because my griefs are not believed: 〈♫〉 I cry a- loud in vain, I cry aloud in vain, my voice out stretched, And get but 〈♫〉 this, {repeat}mine echo calls me wretched. {repeat}mine echo 〈♫〉 calls me wretched. calls me wretched.   

The second part. XVII.  
〈♫〉 THus love commands, That I in vain complain me, That I in vain 〈♫〉 complain me: {repeat}That I in vain complain me: That I in vain come- 〈♫〉 plain me: And sorrow will, That she shall still disdain me: {repeat} 〈♫〉 That she shall still disdain me: 〈♫〉 Yet did I hope, Which hope my 〈♫〉 life prolonged, Which hope my life prolong-ed, To hear hir say Alas his love was 〈♫〉 wronged. To hear her say A- las, To hear her say A-las his love was wronged.   

XVIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, your words do spite me, Your words do spite me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Yet your sweet lips, so soft, kiss & delight me: kiss & delight me: Your deeds my 〈♫〉 hart surcharged with over- ioy- king: Your deeds my hart surcharged with 〈♫〉 ouerioying: Your taunts my life destroying, {repeat}Since both haue force to 〈♫〉 spill me, {repeat}Let kisses sweet, Sweet kill me: {repeat}Knights 〈♫〉 fight with swords and lances, Fight you with smiling glaunces: So like Swans of Lean- 〈♫〉 der, my ghost from hence shal wander, Singing and dying, Singing and dying.   

XIX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what a wretched life is this, Nay, what a death, where the tyrant 〈♫〉 love commandeth, commandeth? My flowering daies are in their prime decli- ning, {repeat} 〈♫〉 All my proud hope, quiter fallen, and life vntwining: My 〈♫〉 joys each after other, {repeat}In hast are flying, And leave me dying, 〈♫〉 For hir that scorns my cry- king: O shee from hence departs, {repeat} 〈♫〉 My love re- frai- ning, For whom all heartless, A-las, I die complaining.   

XX.  
〈♫〉 unkind, O stay thy flying, {repeat}And 〈♫〉 if I needs must die, pitty me dy- king: But in thee, my hart, my hart is ly- 〈♫〉 king, And no death can assail me, {repeat}Alas till life doth fail thee. A- 〈♫〉 las till life doth fail thee. O therefore, If the Fates, bid thee bee fleeting, Stay 〈♫〉 for me, whose poor hart, thou hast in keeping. O therfore, If the Fates bid thee be 〈♫〉 fleeting, Stay for me, whose poor hart thou hast in keeping.   

XXI.  
〈♫〉 I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure, {repeat} 〈♫〉 where then I list, or time served best and lea- sure, While Daphne did in- 〈♫〉 uite me, To supper once, & dranck to me to spite me. I smiled: yet still did 〈♫〉 doubt hir, {repeat}And dranck where she had dranck before, {repeat} 〈♫〉 to flout hir. But o while I did eye hir, But o while I, But o while I did 〈♫〉 eye hir, {repeat} {repeat}did eye hir, mine eyes dranck 〈♫〉 love, my lips dranck burning fire. my lips dranck burning fire. But o while I did eye hir, 〈♫〉 {repeat} {repeat} {repeat}But o while I did eye 〈♫〉 hir, Mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fire. {repeat}   

XXII.  
〈♫〉 FLo-ra gave me fairest flowers, {repeat}none so fair, 〈♫〉 {repeat}In Floras treasure, none so fair, {repeat}In Floras treasure: These I placed on 〈♫〉 Phillis Bowers, She was pleased, and she my pleasure, She was pleased, {repeat}And she my 〈♫〉 pleasure: Smiling meadows seem to say, Come ye wantons, here to play. Smiling 〈♫〉 meadows seem to say, Come ye wantons, here to play, Come ye wantons, here to 〈♫〉 play, to play, {repeat}Come here to play. Come ye wantons, here to play, to 〈♫〉 play, {repeat}Come, come ye wantons here to play.   
here endeth the songs of 5. parts.   


XXIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glory, {repeat}Sub- 〈♫〉 due her hart, who makes me glad and sorry. Out of thy golden quiver: take 〈♫〉 thou thy strongest arrow, That will through bone and marrow, {repeat} 〈♫〉 That will through bone and marrow: And me & thee, of grief & fear deliver: 〈♫〉 And me and thee, {repeat}of grief & fear de- liver. But come behind, 〈♫〉 {repeat}But come behind, for if she look upon thee, Alas poor love, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Then thou art woe beegon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, the Ro- ses sprouting, {repeat}Which clad in 〈♫〉 damask mantles, deck the arbours: Which clad in damask mantles, which clad in damask 〈♫〉 mantells, deck the arbours: & then behold your lips, where sweet love harbours: {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}My eyes presents me, {repeat}with a 〈♫〉 double, double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, my mind sup- 〈♫〉 poses, whether the Roses be your lips, whether the roses be your lips, or your lips the roses. 〈♫〉 {repeat}For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, 〈♫〉 whether the Roses bee your lips, {repeat}whether the Roses be your lips, or your 〈♫〉 lips the Roses, or your lips the Roses.   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shall my wretched life give place to death? When shall my 〈♫〉 wretched life give place to death? That my sad cares may be enforced to leave me: 〈♫〉 Come saddest shadow, stop my vital breath, For I am thine, Then let not care be- 〈♫〉 reaue thee, Of thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, Kill care and me, Kill 〈♫〉 care, and me, While care lies at my hart. Kill care, and me, Kill care and me 〈♫〉 While care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, & pleasing pains, Of joys, & plesing pains, I 〈♫〉 late went singing, O joys with pains, o joys with pains, o pains with joys con- 〈♫〉 scenting: And little thought as then, And little thought as then of now repenting: {repeat} 〈♫〉 But now, think of my then sweet bitter sting-ing: All 〈♫〉 day long I my hands, A-las go wrin- ging, The baleful notes, the baleful notes, 〈♫〉 of which my sad tormenting, Are, ruth, & mone, frights, sobs, & loud lamenting, 〈♫〉 From hills and dales, in my dull ears still ringing. in my dull ears still ringing.   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse, {repeat}my 〈♫〉 voice is horse with skriking: My rests, are sighs, {repeat}Deep from the hart root 〈♫〉 fetched: My song runs all on sharps, and with of stri- king, time on my 〈♫〉 breast, time on my breast, I shrink with hands outstretched, {repeat}Thus 〈♫〉 still and stil I sing, and near am linning: {repeat}For still the close 〈♫〉 {repeat}points to my first beginning. Thus still and still I sing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 and near am linning: For still the close, For still the close, points to my 〈♫〉 first beginning.   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold my heavy ending, cruel behold, my heavy end- 〈♫〉 king, See what you wrought, by your disday-ning, See, what you wrought, by your dis- 〈♫〉 dayning, See what you wrought by your disday- ning, causeless I die, love 〈♫〉 still attending, Your hopeless pitty of my complaining: Suffer those eyes which thus haue 〈♫〉 slain me, {repeat}With speed, to end their killing power: So 〈♫〉 shall you prove, how love doth pain me: And see me die, me die, me die 〈♫〉 still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, And loues delight thou wai'st not: {repeat} 〈♫〉 o take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st not, {repeat} 〈♫〉 O take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst, thou may'st 〈♫〉 not. If love shall then assail thee, {repeat}A double double anguish, will for- 〈♫〉 ment thee: A double double anguish will torment thee, will torment thee, And thou wilt 〈♫〉 wish,( But wishes all will fail thee,) O me, that I were young again, O me, that 〈♫〉 I were young again; And so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And so re- 〈♫〉 penned thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHY dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield me: And I seek 〈♫〉 not to shield me? Why dost thou shoot, & I seek not to shield me: I yield( sweet love) 〈♫〉 {repeat}spare then my wounded liver, And do not make my hart thy arrows 〈♫〉 quiver, And do not make my hart thy arrows quiver, {repeat}O 〈♫〉 hold, O hold, what needs this shooting, when I yield me? What needs this shooting, {repeat} 〈♫〉 when I yield me. O hold, O hold, What needs this shoo-ting, what needs this 〈♫〉 shoo- thing, {repeat} {repeat}when I yield me.  
FINIS.    

TENOR.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   

TO THE RIGHT worshipful and vallerous Knight Sir Charles cavendish.  
RIGHT worshipful and renowned Knight: It hath happened of late, I know not how; whether by my folly, or fortune, to commit some of my labours to the press. Which( the weaker the work is) haue more need of an honourable Patron. every thing persuades me,( though they seem not absolute) that your Countenance is a sufficient warrant for them against sharp tongues & unfriendly censures; Knowing your rare virtues, and honourable accomplishments to be such: as may justly challenge their better regard and opinion, whom it shall please you to patronise. If perchance they shall prove worthy your patronage: My affection, duty, and good will, bind me rather to Dedicate them to you, then to any other: both for the reverence, & honour I owe to all other your most singular virtues; and especially also for your excellent skill in music, and your great love and favour of music. There remaineth onely your favourable acceptance, which humbly craving at your hands, with protestation of all duty, and service: I humbly take my leave. From th' Augustinè friars the XII. of april. 1598.  
Your Worships: ever most bound and dutiful in all humility. John Wilbye.   

THE TABLE  

Songs to 3. voices.  
FLY love aloft. I.  
Away, thou shalt not love me. II.  
Ay me, can every rumour. III.  
weep O mine eyes. IIII.  
Deere pity how? ah how? V.  
ye restless thoughts. VI.   

Songs to 4. voices.  
WHat needeth all this travail and turmoiling. The first part. VII.  
O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer. The second part. VIII  
Alas what hope of speeding. IX.  
Lady when I behold the Roses sprouting. X.  
Thus saith my Cloris bright. XI.  
A due sweet Amarillis. XII.   

Songs to 5. voices.  
die hapless man, Since she denies thee grace. XIII.  
I fall, I fall, O stay me. The first part. XIIII.  
And though my love abounding. The second part. XV.  
I always beg, Yet never am relieved. The first part. XVI.  
Thus love commands. The second part. XVII.  
Lady, your words do spite me. XVIII.  
Alas, what a wretched life is this. XIX.  
unkind, O stay thy flying. XX.  
I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure. XXI.  
Flora gave me fairest flowers. XXII.   

Songs to 6. voices.  
SWeet love, if thou wilt gain a monarchs glory. XXIII.  
Lady when I behold the Roses sprouting. XXIIII.  
When shall my wretched life give place to death? XXV.  
Of joys and pleasing pains, I late went singing. The first part. XXVI.  
My throat is sore, my voice is horse with skriking. The second part. XXVII.  
cruel, behold my heavy ending. XXVIII.  
Thou art but young thou saist. XXIX.  
Why dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me. XXX.   
FINIS.   


The first part. VII.  
〈♫〉 WHat needeth all this travail and turmoiling, shortening the lives sweet 〈♫〉 pleasure, shortening the lives sweet pleasure. {repeat}To seek this 〈♫〉 far fetched treasure, this far fetched treasure, To seek this far fetched treasure, In those hot 〈♫〉 climates, under Phoebus broiling. In those hot cly- mates, In those hot cly- 〈♫〉 mats, {repeat}In those hot clymats, Vn- der Phoebus broiling.   

The second part. VIII.  
〈♫〉 O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer, O fools can you not 〈♫〉 see a traffic nearer, In my sweet Ladies face, in my sweet Ladies face, Where 〈♫〉 Nature showeth, what ever treasure eye sees, or hart knoweth? Rubies and Diamonds 〈♫〉 dainty, {repeat}And orient pearls such plenty, coral & Ambergris, sweeter & 〈♫〉 dearer, coral and Ambergris, sweeter & dearer, Then which the South seas or Mo- 〈♫〉 luccas lend us, lend us, Thē which the South seas or Moluccas lend us, or either Indies, 〈♫〉 {repeat}or either Indies, East or West, do sand vs.   

IX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what hope of spee- ding, where hope beguiled lies bleeding; 〈♫〉 She bad come, She bad come, when shee spied me: And when I came shee flide 〈♫〉 me, shee flyde me, Thus when I was beguiled, Thus when I was, Thus when I was be- 〈♫〉 gui- lead, She at my sighing smi- lead. But if you take such pleasure, 〈♫〉 {repeat}Of hope and ioy my treasure, my treasure, Of hope & ioy my 〈♫〉 treasure, my treasure, By deceit to bereave me, By deceit to bereave me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}Loue me and so deceive me. {repeat}   

X.  
〈♫〉 LA- dy, when I behold, the Roses sprouting, the Ro- ses 〈♫〉 sprouting, La- dy, when I behold, the Roses sprouting, {repeat}Which clad in 〈♫〉 damask mantells deck the arbours: {repeat}And then behold your 〈♫〉 lips, {repeat} {repeat}Where sweet love harbours, My eyes presents me 〈♫〉 with a double, dou-ble doubting: a double double doubting: My eyes presents me with a 〈♫〉 double double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, whether the 〈♫〉 Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat}For viewing 〈♫〉 both a like, hardly my mind supposes, Whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the 〈♫〉 Roses. {repeat}   

XI.  
〈♫〉 THus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down and talk to- 〈♫〉 gether, & talk together, Thus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down & 〈♫〉 talk together, Thus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down & talk to- 〈♫〉 gether, Beware, Beware of love,( deere) love is a walking spirit, And love is this and 〈♫〉 that, {repeat}And O I wot not what, {repeat}And comes and goes a- 〈♫〉 gain, I wot not whether, {repeat}No, no, these are but 〈♫〉 bugs to breed amazing, to breed amazing, For in her eyes I saw his torch light blazing.   

XII.  
〈♫〉 adieu sweet Amarillis, {repeat} {repeat}A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu sweet Amaril- lis: For since to part your will is, A-dew sweet Amaril- 〈♫〉 lis, {repeat} {repeat}Adew, adieu, sweet Amaril- lis: For since 〈♫〉 to part your will is, O heavy ty-ding, here is for me no biding: Yet once again, 〈♫〉 Yet once again, again, Ere that I part with you, yet once again, Yet once again a- 〈♫〉 gain, Ere that I part with you, Ama- rillis, Amarillis, sweet adieu, adieu, adieu, A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu sweet Ama- rillis, Amarillis, sweet adieu, adieu.   
here endeth the songs of 4. parts.   


XIII.  
〈♫〉 die hapless man, {repeat}Since she denies thee grace: die hapless 〈♫〉 man, {repeat}Since she denies thee grace, {repeat}Dye and despair, sith 〈♫〉 she doth scorn to love thee: Farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, Fare- 〈♫〉 well most fair, {repeat}Farewell most fair, though thou dost fair deface, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Sith for my duteous love, thou dost reprove me: Sith for my duteous 〈♫〉 love, thou dost reprove me. {repeat}Those smiling eyes, that 〈♫〉 sometimes me revived, {repeat}Clowded with 〈♫〉 frowns, haue me of life de-priued.   

The first part. XIIII.  
〈♫〉 I Fall, I fall, O stay me, {repeat}O stay me, Deere 〈♫〉 love with joys ye slay me, {repeat}with joys ye slay me, Of life your 〈♫〉 lips deprive me, your lips deprive me, Sweet, let your lips revive me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 O whether are you ha- sting( thus) ha- sting, & leave my life thus 〈♫〉 wasting? My health on you relyeing, {repeat} {repeat}'Twer sin 〈♫〉 to leave me, {repeat}dyeing. My health on you relyeing, {repeat} {repeat} 〈♫〉 'Twer sin to leave me, 'twere sin to leave me dying, to leave 〈♫〉 me die- king.   

The second part. XV.  
〈♫〉 AND though my love abounding, {repeat}Did make me 〈♫〉 fall a sounding, {repeat}Yet am I well contented, Still so to be tormen- 〈♫〉 ted, {repeat} {repeat}Yet am I well contented, still so to 〈♫〉 bee tormented: Still so to bee tormented: And death can never fear me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 As long as you are near me. And death can never fear me, As 〈♫〉 long as you, As long as you are near me.   

The first part. XVI.  
〈♫〉 I always beg, Yet ne- uer am relieved: {repeat}I always 〈♫〉 beg, I always beg, Yet never am relee- ued: relieved: I grieve, because my 〈♫〉 griefs are not believed: I grieve, because my griefs are not believed: I cry aloud in 〈♫〉 vain, My voice out stretched, I cry aloud in vain, my voice out stretched, And get but 〈♫〉 this, {repeat}Mine echo calls me wretched. {repeat}Mine echo calls me 〈♫〉 wretched. calls me wretched.   

The second part. XVII.  
〈♫〉 THus love commands, That I in vain complain me, That I in 〈♫〉 vain complain me: {repeat}That I in vain complain me: And sorrow will, 〈♫〉 That she shall still disdain me: That she shall still disdain me: {repeat}Yet 〈♫〉 did I hope, Which hope my life prolonged, Which hope my life pro-longed, To 〈♫〉 hear hir say Alas his love was wronged. A-las his love was wronged.   

XVIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, your words do spite me, La- dy your words do spite 〈♫〉 me, Your words do spite me, Yet your sweet lips, so soft, kiss & delight me: kiss & de- 〈♫〉 light, delight me: Your deeds my hart surcharged with ouerioying: {repeat} 〈♫〉 Your taunts my life destroying. {repeat}Since both haue 〈♫〉 force to spill me, {repeat}Let kisses sweet, {repeat}Let kisses Sweet, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Sweet kill me: Knights fight with swords and lances, Fight you with smiling 〈♫〉 glaunces: So like Swans of Leander, my ghost from hence shall wander, Singing and 〈♫〉 dying. Singing and dying.   

XIX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what a wretched life is this? Nay, what a death, where the tyrant 〈♫〉 love commandeth, commandeth? My flowering daies are in their prime decli- ning, 〈♫〉 {repeat}All my proud hope, quiter fallen, and life vn- 〈♫〉 twining: My joys each after other, {repeat}In hast are fly- 〈♫〉 king, And leave me dying, For hir that scorns my crying: O she from hence departs, 〈♫〉 {repeat}My love refraining, For whom all heartless, Alas, I die complay-ning.   

XX.  
〈♫〉 unkind, O stay thy fly- king, {repeat}And if I 〈♫〉 needs must die, pit- ty me dying: But in thee, my hart, my hart is lying, And 〈♫〉 no death, And no death can assail me, Alas till life doth fail thee. {repeat} 〈♫〉 O there- fore, 〈♫〉 If the Fates, bid thee bee fleeting, Stay for me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 whose poor hart, thou hast in keeping. O ther-fore, {repeat}If the Fates bid thee be 〈♫〉 fleeting, Stay for me, {repeat}whose poor hart thou hast in keeping.   

XXI.  
〈♫〉 I. sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure, where then I- 〈♫〉 list, {repeat}or time served best and leisure, While Daphne did invite me, And 〈♫〉 dranck to me to spite me. I smiled yet still did doubt hir, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And dranck where she had dranck before, to flout hir, to flout hir. But o while 〈♫〉 I did eye hir, {repeat} {repeat} {repeat}But 〈♫〉 o while I did eye hir, mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning 〈♫〉 fire. My lips dranck burning fr- er. But o while I did eye hir, But o while I, But 〈♫〉 o while I did eye hir, {repeat} {repeat}did eye hir, Mine 〈♫〉 eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning fi-er. My lips dranck burning fi-er.   

XXII.  
〈♫〉 FLo-ra gave me fairest flowers, {repeat}none so fair, {repeat} 〈♫〉 {repeat}In Floras treasure, none so fair, {repeat}In Floras treasure: These I placed on 〈♫〉 Phillis Bowers, {repeat}She was pleased, {repeat}She was pleased, And 〈♫〉 she my pleasure: Smiling meadows seem to say, Come ye wantons, here to play. 〈♫〉 {repeat}Come here to play. Come ye wantons, here to play, to 〈♫〉 play, Come ye wantons, here to play, Come ye wantons, here to play, to 〈♫〉 play. Come ye wantons, Come ye wan-tons, here to play.   
here endeth the songs of 5. parts.   


XXIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glory, Subdue her hart, who 〈♫〉 makes me glad and so- ry. Out of thy golden quiver, Take thou thy strongest 〈♫〉 arrow, That will through bone and marrow, And me and thee, of grief & fear 〈♫〉 deli- uer: And me and thee, {repeat} {repeat}of grief & fear deli- 〈♫〉 uer. But come behind, {repeat}for if she look vpon thee, But come behind, For 〈♫〉 if shee look upon thee, For if shee look upon thee, Alas poor love, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Then thou art woe begon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, the Roses sprouting, {repeat} {repeat} 〈♫〉 Which clad in damask mantles, which clad in damask mantells deck the ar- 〈♫〉 bours: And thē behold your lips, where sweet love harbours: And thē behold, {repeat} 〈♫〉 your lips, Where sweet love har- bours: My eyes presents me, {repeat}with a 〈♫〉 double doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, whether the 〈♫〉 Roses be your lips, {repeat}whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. 〈♫〉 or your lips the Roses. For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, my 〈♫〉 mind supposes, whether the Roses be your lips, whether the Roses be your lips, or your 〈♫〉 lips the Roses. {repeat}   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shall my wretched life, When shall my wretched life give place 〈♫〉 to death? That my sad cares may be enforced to leave me: Come saddest shadow, 〈♫〉 stop my vital breath, For I am thine, For I am thine, Then let not care bereave 〈♫〉 thee, Of thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, But with thy fatal dart, Kill care, 〈♫〉 and me, While care lies at my hart. Kill care, and me, Kill care, and me, While 〈♫〉 care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, & pleasing pains, I late went singing: Of joys & 〈♫〉 pleasing pains, I late went singing, O joys with pains, O joys with pains, O 〈♫〉 pains with joys consenting: And little thought as then of now repenting: {repeat} 〈♫〉 But now, think of my thē sweet bitter stinging: All day long, 〈♫〉 I my hands, Alas, Alas, Alas go wringing, All day long I my hands Alas, A- 〈♫〉 las go wringing: The baleful notes, of which my sad tormenting, Are ruth and 〈♫〉 mone, frights, sobs, & loud lamenting, From hills and dales, From hills and dales, in 〈♫〉 my dull ears still ringing. {repeat}   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse with skriking: My 〈♫〉 rests, are sighs, {repeat}Deep from the hart root fet-ched: My song runs 〈♫〉 all on sharps, And with oft striking, time on my breast, {repeat}I shrink with 〈♫〉 hands out stretched: {repeat}Thus still, and still I sing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 And near am linning: For still the close, {repeat}points to my first beginning. 〈♫〉 Thus still and still I sing, and near am linning: {repeat}For 〈♫〉 still, the close, For still the close points to my first beeginning.   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold, cruel behold my heavy ending, my heavy en- 〈♫〉 ding, cruel behold, cruel behold my heavy ending: {repeat} 〈♫〉 See, what you wrought by your disdaining, {repeat}See what you 〈♫〉 wrought, {repeat}by your disdaining, causeless I die, love still attending, love 〈♫〉 still attending, Suffer those eyes which thus haue slain me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 With speed, to end their killing power: So shall you prove, how love doth 〈♫〉 pain me: And see me die, me die, And see me die still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, And loues delight thou wai'st not: {repeat} 〈♫〉 o take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st 〈♫〉 not: thou mayst not: O take time while thou may'st, {repeat}Least 〈♫〉 when thou wouldst, thou wouldst thou may'st not. If love shall then assail thee, 〈♫〉 {repeat}A double double anguish, will torment thee: And thou wilt 〈♫〉 wish,( But wishes all will fail thee,) O me, that I were young again, O me, that 〈♫〉 I were young again; And so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And so re- 〈♫〉 penned thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHy dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me? {repeat} 〈♫〉 I yield( sweet love) I yield, I yield( sweet love) Spare then my 〈♫〉 wounded liver, And do not make my hart, thy arrows quiver. {repeat} 〈♫〉 O hold; O hold; What needs this shoo- thing, What needs this shoo- thing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 What needs this shoo- thing, when I yield me. O hold, O hold, What 〈♫〉 needs this shooting, when I yield me? What needs this shooting, What needs this 〈♫〉 shooting, when I yield me?  
FJNJS.    

sextus.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   

TO THE RIGHT worshipful and vallerous Knight Sir Charles cavendish.  
RIGHT worshipful and renowned Knight: It hath happened of late, I know not how; whether by my folly, or fortune, to commit some of my labours to the press. Which( the weaker the work is) haue more need of an honourable Patron. every thing persuades me,( though they seem not absolute) that your Countenance is a sufficient warrant for them against sharp tongues & unfriendly censures; Knowing your rare virtues, and honourable accomplishments to be such: as may justly challenge their better regard and opinion, whom it shall please you to patronise. If perchance they shall prove worthy your patronage: My affection, duty, and good will, bind me rather to Dedicate them to you, then to any other: both for the reverence, & honour I owe to all other your most singular virtues; and especially also for your excellent skill in music, and your great love and favour of music. There remaineth onely your favourable acceptance, which humbly craving at your hands, with protestation of all duty, and service: I humbly take my leave. From th' Augustinè friars the XII. of april. 1598.  
Your Worships: ever most bound and dutiful in all humility. John Wilbye.   

THE TABLE  
Songs to 3. voices.  FLY love aloft. I. Away, thou shalt not love me. II. Ay me, can every rumour. III. weep O mine eyes. IIII. Deere pity how? ah how? V. ye restless thoughts. VI. 
Songs to 4. voices.  WHat needeth all this travail and turmoiling. The first part. VII. O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer. The second part. VIII Alas what hope of speeding. IX. Lady when I behold the Roses sprouting. X. Thus saith my Cloris bright. XI. A due sweet Amarillis. XII. 
Songs to 5. voices.  die hapless man, Since she denies thee grace. XIII. I fall, I fall, O stay me. The first part. XIIII. And though my love abounding. The second part. XV. I always beg, Yet never am relieved. The first part. XVI. Thus love commands. The second part. XVII. Lady, your words do spite me. XVIII. Alas, what a wretched life is this. XIX. unkind, O stay thy flying. XX. I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure. XXI. Flora gave me fairest flowers. XXII. 
Songs to 6. voices.  SWeet love, if thou wilt gain a monarchs glory. XXIII. Lady when I behold the Roses sprouting. XXIIII. When shall my wretched life give place to death? XXV. Of joys and pleasing pains, I late went singing. The first part. XXVI. My throat is sore, my voice is horse with skriking. The second part. XXVII. cruel, behold my heavy ending. XXVIII. Thou art but young thou saist. XXIX. Why dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me. XXX. 
FINIS.   


XXIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glory, Sweet love, if thou wilt 〈♫〉 gain a monarchs glow- ry, Subdue her hart, who makes me glad and 〈♫〉 so- ry, Out of thy golden qui- uer: Take thou thy strongest arrow, That 〈♫〉 will through bone & marrow, {repeat}And me and thee of grief and fear 〈♫〉 deli- uer: And me and thee, {repeat}And me & thee, of grief & fear 〈♫〉 deli-uer. But come behind, {repeat}for if shee look vpon thee, for if she look up- 〈♫〉 'pon thee, A-las poor love, {repeat}Then thou art woe bee-gon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, {repeat}the Roses sprouting, the Roses 〈♫〉 sprouting, {repeat}Which clad in damask mantles, {repeat}deck the ar- 〈♫〉 bours: {repeat}And then behold, & then behold your lips, where sweet love harbours: & 〈♫〉 then behold, your lips, where sweet love har-bors, {repeat}My eyes pre- 〈♫〉 scents me, {repeat}with a double, double doubting: For viewing both a like, hard- 〈♫〉 ly my mind supposes, supposes, whether the Roses be your lips, whether the Roses 〈♫〉 be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat}whether the Roses 〈♫〉 be your lips, or your lips the Ro- ses. {repeat}For viewing 〈♫〉 both a like, hardly my mind supposes, supposes, whether the Roses be your lips, 〈♫〉 whether the roses be your lips, or your lips the roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Ro-ses {repeat}   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shal my wretched life give place to death? that my sad cares 〈♫〉 may be enforced to leave me: Come saddest shadow, Come saddest shadow, 〈♫〉 Come saddest shadoW, stop my vital breath, For I am thine, then let not care be- 〈♫〉 reaue thee, Of thy sad thrall: Of thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, Kill 〈♫〉 care, and me, Kill care, and me, Kill care and me, Kill care, and me, While 〈♫〉 care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, & pleasing pains, I late went singing, Of joys, & plesing 〈♫〉 pains, I late went singing, I late went singing, I late went singing, O joys with 〈♫〉 pains, o pains with joys con-senting: And little thought as then of now repenting: 〈♫〉 {repeat}But now, think of, But now think of my 〈♫〉 then sweet bitter stinging: All day long, I my hands, Alas, Alas, go wringing, The 〈♫〉 baleful notes, of which my sad tormenting, And loud lamenting, From hills and 〈♫〉 dales, in my dull ears still ringing. From hills & dales in my dull ears still ringing.   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse, {repeat}with 〈♫〉 skriking, My rests, are sighs, {repeat}Deep from the hart root fetched: My song runs 〈♫〉 all on sharps, and with oft striking, time on my breast, {repeat}I shrink, I 〈♫〉 shrink, I shrink with hands out stretched: {repeat}Thus still, and still I 〈♫〉 sing, And near am linning: {repeat}And near am linning: 〈♫〉 {repeat}For still the close, points to my first beginning. Thus still and 〈♫〉 still I sing, and near am linning: {repeat}and near am linning: 〈♫〉 {repeat}For still the close, points to my first beginning.   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold, my heavy ending, {repeat}my heavy ending, 〈♫〉 cruel behold, my heavy ending, See, what you wrought, by your disdaining, 〈♫〉 {repeat}See what you wrought by your disdaining, causeless I 〈♫〉 die, love still attending, Your hopeless pitty, of my complaining: Your hopeless 〈♫〉 pitty of my complaining,: Suffer those eyes, which thus haue slain me, 〈♫〉 {repeat}With speed, to end their killing power: So 〈♫〉 shall you prove how love doth pain me, {repeat}And see 〈♫〉 me die, me die still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, but young thou sayst, and loues delight thou 〈♫〉 wai'st not: {repeat}ô take time while thou may'st, {repeat}Least 〈♫〉 when thou wouldst thou may'st not, {repeat}O take time while thou may'st, 〈♫〉 Least when thou wouldst, thou may'st not. Least when thou wouldst, {repeat}thou 〈♫〉 may'st not. If love shall then assail thee, {repeat}A double double anguish, {repeat} 〈♫〉 will tor-ment thee: And thou wilt wish,( But wishes all will fail thee,) {repeat} 〈♫〉 O me, that I were young again, O me, that I were 〈♫〉 young again; And so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And so repent thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHY dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield me? {repeat} 〈♫〉 why dost thou shoot, & I seek not to shield me? {repeat} 〈♫〉 I yield( sweet love) I yield( sweet love) spare then my wounded liver, and do not 〈♫〉 make my hart thy arrows quiver, And do not make my hart thy arrows quiver, {repeat} 〈♫〉 O hold; O hold; what needs this shooting, when I yield me. What 〈♫〉 needs this shoo- thing, {repeat}when I yield me? O hold, O hold, what needs 〈♫〉 this shooting, when I yield me? What needs this shoo- thing, {repeat} 〈♫〉 when I yield me.  
FINIS.    

bassus.  
THE FIRST SET OF ENGLISH MADRIGALS TO 3.4.5. and 6. voices: Newly Composed BY John WILBYE.  
AT LONDON: Printed by Thomas east. 1598.   


I.  
〈♫〉 FLy love aloft, to heaven & look out Fortune, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Then sweetly sweetly, sweetly hir importune, That I from my Ca- 〈♫〉 listo best beloved, As you & she set down, be never moved, As you & she set down, 〈♫〉 {repeat}be never moved, And love, to Carimel see you commend me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Fortune for his sweet sake, {repeat}may chance befriend 〈♫〉 me. Fortune for his sweet sake, may chance befriend me. And love, to Ca-rimel see 〈♫〉 you commend me, {repeat}Fortune for his sweet sake, {repeat} 〈♫〉 may chance befriend me. Fortune for his sweet sake, may chance beefriend me.   

II.  
〈♫〉 AWay, {repeat}Away; thou shalt not love me. Away, {repeat}away; thou 〈♫〉 shalt not love me. So shal my love seem greater, And I shal love the better, So shal my 〈♫〉 love seem greater, And I shall love the better, And I shal love, And I shal love the bet- 〈♫〉 ter, shall it be so? what say you? shall it be so? what say you? Why speak you not 〈♫〉 I pray you? Nay then I know you love me, you love me, Nay then I know you love 〈♫〉 me, you love me, That so you may disprove me. Nay then I know you love 〈♫〉 me, you love me, Nay then I know you love me, you love me, That so you may 〈♫〉 disprove me.   

III.  
〈♫〉 AY me, Can every rumour, Thus start my Ladies humour? ay me, 〈♫〉 Can every rumour, Thus start, {repeat}my Ladies humour? Name ye some gallant to 〈♫〉 her; why strait forsooth I woe her, then burst she forth in passion, You men love but for 〈♫〉 fashion, You men love but for fashion, Yet sure I am that no man, Yet sure I am that 〈♫〉 no man, ever so loved woman, Yet a-las love be wary, be wary, For women be con- 〈♫〉 tra-ry. Yet sure I am that no man, Yet sure I am that no man, ever so loved wo- 〈♫〉 man, Yet a-las love bee wa-ry, bee wa-ry, For women be contra-ry.   

IIII.  
〈♫〉 weep O mine eyes, & cease not: Your spring tides, out alas, out alas, 〈♫〉 out a- las, me thinks increase not, Your spring tides, out alas me thinks increase not. 〈♫〉 Weep o mine eyes & cease not: Your spring tides, out alas, out alas, out a- las, me 〈♫〉 thinks increase not. Your spring tides out alas, me thinks increase not. O when, o 〈♫〉 when begin you, {repeat}To swell so high, to swell so high, that 〈♫〉 I may drown me in you? O when, o when begin you, {repeat} 〈♫〉 To swell so high, to swell so high, that I may drown me in you.   

V.  
〈♫〉 DEere pit-tie how? ah how? wouldst thou become her, dear pit-tie how? 〈♫〉 ah how? wouldst thou become her? That best becometh beauties best at-ty-ring, 〈♫〉 Shall my desert, {repeat}Shall my desert deserve no favour from her? But still to wast 〈♫〉 my self in deep admiring, {repeat}Like him that calls to echo to re- 〈♫〉 lieue him, {repeat}Still tells & hears the tale, Oh tale that grieves him. 〈♫〉 Like him that calls to echo to relieve him, {repeat}Still tells and 〈♫〉 hears the tale, Oh tale that grieves him.   

VI.  
〈♫〉 ye restless thoughts, {repeat}that harbour discontent, Cease 〈♫〉 your assaults: {repeat}& let my hart lament, ye restless thoughts, {repeat}that har- 〈♫〉 bour discontent, Cease your assaults: {repeat}& let my hart lament; And let my tongue 〈♫〉 haue leave to tell my grief, That she may pity, though not grant relief. {repeat} 〈♫〉 pity would help, pity would help what love hath almost slain, pity would 〈♫〉 help, what love hath almost slain, And salve the wound, that fest'red this disdain. 〈♫〉 pity would help, pity would help, what love hath almost slain, ij. 〈♫〉 And salve the wound that fest'red this disdain.   
here endeth the Songs of 3. parts.   


VII.  
〈♫〉 WHat needeth all this travail and turmoiling, shortening the 〈♫〉 lives sweet pleasure, shortening the lives sweet pleasure. To seek this far fetched 〈♫〉 treasure, this far fetched treasure, To seek this far fetched treasure, {repeat} 〈♫〉 In those hot climates, In those hot cly- mates, 〈♫〉 Vn-der Phoebus broiling.   

The second part. VIII.  
〈♫〉 O fools, can you not see a traffic nearer, In my sweet Ladies 〈♫〉 face, {repeat}Where Nature showeth, what ever treasure eye sees, or hart 〈♫〉 knoweth? Rubies and Diamonds dainty, Rubies and Diamonds dainty, And orient 〈♫〉 pearls such plenty, coral and Ambergris, sweeter and dearer, coral and Amber- 〈♫〉 gris, sweeter and dearer, Then which the South seas or Moluccas lend us, Then 〈♫〉 which the South seas or Moluccas lend us, or either Indies, East or West, do sand us▪   

IX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what hope of speeding, where hope beguiled lies bleeding; She bad 〈♫〉 come, when shee spied me: And when I came shee flide me, shee flyde me, Thus 〈♫〉 when I was beguiled, {repeat}She at my sighing smiled. But if you take 〈♫〉 such pleasure, of hope and ioy my treasure, {repeat}By deceit to bereave 〈♫〉 me, {repeat}By deceit to bereave me, {repeat}Loue me and so deceive 〈♫〉 me. love me and so deceive me.   

X.  
〈♫〉 LA-dy, when I behold, the Roses sprouting, La-dy, when I be- 〈♫〉 hold, the Ro- ses sprouting, Which clad in damask mantells deck the ar- 〈♫〉 bours: {repeat}My eyes presents me with a double, dou- 〈♫〉 ble doubting: {repeat}For viewing both a like, hardly my 〈♫〉 mind supposes, Whether the Roses be your lips, {repeat}or your lips the 〈♫〉 Roses. For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, Whether the Roses be 〈♫〉 your lips, {repeat}or your lips the Roses.   

XI.  
〈♫〉 THus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down and talk 〈♫〉 together, & talk together, Thus saith my Cloris bright, when we of love sit down 〈♫〉 and talk together, & talk together, Beware of love,( deere) love is a walking spirit, 〈♫〉 a walking spirit, And love is this and that, {repeat}And O I wot not what, 〈♫〉 {repeat}And comes and goes again, I wot not whether, And comes and 〈♫〉 goes again, I wot not whether: No, no, these are but bugs to breed amazing, to 〈♫〉 breed amazing, For in her eyes I saw his torch light blazing.   

XII.  
〈♫〉 adieu sweet Amarillis, {repeat}Adew, adieu, A- 〈♫〉 due, sweet Amarillis: For since to part your will is, A-dew sweet Amarillis, {repeat} 〈♫〉 adieu, adieu, adieu, sweet Amarillis: For since to part your will is, 〈♫〉 O heavy tiding, here is for me no biding: Yet once again again, Ere that I part 〈♫〉 with you, Yet once again, again, Ere that I part with you, Amarillis, Amarillis, sweet A- 〈♫〉 due, adieu, adieu, adieu, adieu. Sweet Amarillis, Amarillis sweet adieu, adieu.   
here endeth the songs of 4. parts.   


XIII.  
〈♫〉 die hapless man, {repeat}Since she denies thee grace. die hap- 〈♫〉 less man, {repeat}Dye and despair, sith she doth scorn to love thee: Fare- 〈♫〉 well most fair, though thou dost fair deface, {repeat}Sith for my 〈♫〉 duteous love, thou dost reprove me: Sith for my duteous love, thou dost reprove 〈♫〉 me. Those smiling eyes, that sometimes me revived, Those smiling eyes, that sometimes 〈♫〉 me reui- ued, clouded with frowns, haue me of life de- priued.   

The first part. XIIII.  
〈♫〉 I Fall, I fall, O stay me, {repeat}Deere love with 〈♫〉 joys ye slay me, {repeat}Of life your lips deprive me, de- 〈♫〉 prive me, Sweet, let your lips revive me, Sweet let your lips revive me: O 〈♫〉 whether are you ha- sting, & leave my life thus wasting? My health on you re- 〈♫〉 lying, on you relyeing, 'twere sin to leave me dying. My health on you re- 〈♫〉 lying, on you relyeing, 'twere sin to leave me dying, to leave me dying.   

The second part. XV.  
〈♫〉 AND though my love abounding, did make me fall a sounding, 〈♫〉 〈♫〉 Yet I am well contented, Still so to be tormented: Still 〈♫〉 so to bee tormented: Yet am I well contented, still so to bee tormented: 〈♫〉 And death can ne-uer fear me, As long as you are near me. And 〈♫〉 death can ne- uer fear me, As long as you are near me.   

The first part. XVI.  
〈♫〉 I always beg, Yet ne- uer am relieved: I always beg, I al- 〈♫〉 ways beg, Yet never am relieved: I grieve, because my griefs are not believed: 〈♫〉 I grieve, because my griefs are not believed: I cry aloud in vain, My voice out 〈♫〉 stretched, my voice out stretched, And get but this, Mine echo calls me wretched. 〈♫〉 {repeat}Mine echo calls me wretched.   

The second part. XVII.  
〈♫〉 THus love commands, That I in vain complain me, That I in 〈♫〉 vain complain me: In vain complain me: And sorrow will, That she shall 〈♫〉 still disdain me: That she shall still disdain me: Yet did I hope, Which hope my 〈♫〉 life prolonged, To hear hir say A-las, Alas his love was wronged.   

XVIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, your words do spite me, your words do spite me, Yet 〈♫〉 your sweet lips, so soft, kiss & delight me: kiss & delight me, Your deeds my hart sur- 〈♫〉 charged with ouerioying: Your taunts my life destroy- king. {repeat} 〈♫〉 Since both haue force to spill me, Let kisses sweet, Sweet kill me, {repeat} 〈♫〉 Knights fight with swords and lances, Fight you with smiling glaun- ces: So like 〈♫〉 Swans of Leander, my ghost from hence shal wander, Singing & dying. Singing & dying.   

XIX.  
〈♫〉 ALas, what a wretched life is this? Nay, what a death, where the tyrant 〈♫〉 love commandeth? My flowering daies are in their prime decli- ning, All my proud 〈♫〉 hope, quiter fallen, and life vntwining: My joys each after other, {repeat}In 〈♫〉 hast are fly- king, And leave me dying, For her that scorns my crying: O 〈♫〉 she from hence departs, {repeat}My love refraining, For whom all heartless, A- 〈♫〉 las, I die complaining.   

XX.  
〈♫〉 unkind, O stay thy flying, unkind, And if I needs must die, 〈♫〉 pitty me dying: But in thee, my hart, my hart, my hart is lying, And no death, 〈♫〉 can assail me, Alas till life doth fail thee, till life doth fail thee, O therefore, If the 〈♫〉 Fates, bid thee be fleeting, Stay for me, whose poor hart, thou hast in keeping. O ther- 〈♫〉 fore, If the Fates bid thee bee fleeting, Stay for me, whose poor hart thou hast 〈♫〉 in kee-ping.   

XXI.  
〈♫〉 I sung sometimes my thoughts and fancies pleasure, where then I 〈♫〉 list, or time served best and leisure, While Daphne did invite me, To supper once, And 〈♫〉 dranck to me to spite me. I smiled yet still did doubt hir, And dranck where 〈♫〉 she had dranck before, {repeat}to flout hir. But o while I did eye hir, 〈♫〉 {repeat}But o while I did eye hir, mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck 〈♫〉 burning fi-er. My lips dranck burning fi-er. But o while I did eye hir, {repeat} 〈♫〉 But o while I did eye hir, Mine eyes dranck love, my lips dranck burning 〈♫〉 fi-er. My lips dranck burning fi-er.   

XXII.  
〈♫〉 FLo-ra gave me fairest flowers, none so fair, {repeat} {repeat}In 〈♫〉 Floras treasure, none so fair, {repeat} {repeat}In Floras treasure: These I placed on 〈♫〉 Phillis Bowers, She was pleased, She was pleased, And she my pleasure: Smiling 〈♫〉 meadows seem to say, Come ye wantons, here to play. Come ye wantons, 〈♫〉 here to play, Come ye wantons, here to play, Come ye wantons, here to 〈♫〉 play. Come here to play. Come ye wantons, here to play, {repeat}Come 〈♫〉 Come ye wantons, here to play.   
here endeth the songs of 5. parts.   


XYIII.  
〈♫〉 SWeet love: If thou wilt gain a monarchs glory, Subdue her hart, who 〈♫〉 makes me glad and sorry. Out of thy golden quiver, Take thou thy strongest ar- 〈♫〉 row, That will through bone and marrow: {repeat}And me and thee, 〈♫〉 And me and thee, {repeat} {repeat}of grief & fear deliver: But come 〈♫〉 behind, {repeat}for if shee look upon thee, A-las poor love, Then thou art 〈♫〉 woe begon thee.   

XXIIII.  
〈♫〉 LAdy, when I behold, the Roses sprouting, the Roses sprou- 〈♫〉 thing, Which clad in damask man-tels deck the arbours: And thē behold, And thē be- 〈♫〉 hold your lips, where sweet love harbours: My eyes presents me with a double, double 〈♫〉 doubting: For viewing both a like, hardly my mind supposes, whether the Roses be your 〈♫〉 lips, whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat} 〈♫〉 For viewing both a like, hard- ly my mind supposes, whether the Roses be your 〈♫〉 lips, whether the Roses be your lips, or your lips the Roses. {repeat}   

XXV.  
〈♫〉 WHen shall my wretched life give place to death? give place to death? 〈♫〉 That my sad cares may be enforced to leave me: Come saddest shadow, Come saddest 〈♫〉 shadow, stop my vital breath, For I am thine, Then let not care bereave thee, Of 〈♫〉 thy sad thrall: But with thy fatal dart, Kill care, & me, While care lies at my hart. 〈♫〉 Kill care, and me, While care lies at my hart.   

The first part. XXVI.  
〈♫〉 OF joys, and pleasing pains, I late went singing: O joys with 〈♫〉 pains, o pains with joys consenting: And little thought as then of now repenting: 〈♫〉 & little thought as then of now repenting: But now, think of my then sweet bitter 〈♫〉 stinging: All day long, I my hands Alas go wringing, The baleful notes of 〈♫〉 which my sad tormenting, Are ruth and mone, frights, sobs, & loud lamenting, From 〈♫〉 hills and dales in my dull ears still ringing.   

The second part. XXVII.  
〈♫〉 MY throat is sore, my voice is horse with skriking: My rests, are 〈♫〉 sighs, {repeat}Deep from the hart root fetched: My song runs all on sharps, & with 〈♫〉 oft striking, time on my breast, I shrink with hands out stretched: Thus stil, & still I 〈♫〉 sing, and near am linning: For still, the close, points to my first beginning. Thus 〈♫〉 still and still I sing, and near am linning: For still, the close, points to my first 〈♫〉 beeginning.   

XXVIII.  
〈♫〉 cruel behold, behold my heavy ending, cruel behold, my heavy 〈♫〉 ending, See, what you wrought by your disdaining, See what you wrought by your dis- 〈♫〉 dayning, causeless I die, love still attending, Your hopeless pitty of my complaining, 〈♫〉 Suffer those eyes which thus haue slain me, {repeat}With 〈♫〉 speed, to end their killing power: So shall you prove, how love doth pain me: 〈♫〉 And see me die, me die, still your.   

XXIX.  
〈♫〉 THou art but young thou sayst, And loues delight thou may'st not: O 〈♫〉 take time while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st not: O take time 〈♫〉 while thou may'st, Least when thou wouldst, Least when thou wouldst thou may'st not. 〈♫〉 If love shall then assail thee, A dou-ble double anguish, will torment thee: And 〈♫〉 thou wilt wish,( But wishes all will fail thee,) O me, that I were young again, O 〈♫〉 me, that I were young again; And so repent thee. O me, that I were young again; And 〈♫〉 so repent thee.   

XXX.  
〈♫〉 WHy dost thou shoot, And I seek not to shield me? {repeat} 〈♫〉 I yield( sweet love) I yield,( sweet love) Spare then my wounded liver, 〈♫〉 And do not make my hart, thy ar- rows quiver. And do not make my hart, thy 〈♫〉 arrows quiver. O hold; O hold; What needs this shooting, when I yield me? What 〈♫〉 needs this shooting, when I yield me. O hold, O hold, What needs this shooting, when I 〈♫〉 yield me? What needs this shooting, when I yield me?  
FJNJS.