ALTUS.  
The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.  
Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practitioner in the Art of Music, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the City of Chester.  
1604.  
IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.   

THE TABLE.  
Of 6. voc. 

When Oriana walked to take the air: 
 This Song was sent to late, and should have been printed in the set of oriana's: but being a work of this author, I have placed it before this set of his Songs.    

Songs to 3. voices.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet. I  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart. TWO  
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth. III  
Ay me, my mistress scorns my love. IIII  
Come follow me fair Nymphs. V  
Your shining eyes and golden hair. VI   

Songs to 4. voices.  
Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers. VII  
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go. VIII  
Down from above falls jove in rain. IX  
Adieu sweet love, Adieu. X  
If love be blind, how hath he then the sight. XI  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XII   

Songs to 5. voices.  
Those sweet delightful Lilies. XIII  
And must I needs departed then. XIIII  
Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV  
Yet stay alway, be chained to my heart. Second part. XVI  
Strange were the life that every man would like. XVII  
Alas where is my love, where is my sweeting. XVIII  
O fly not love, O fly not me. XIX  
Who prostrate lies at women's feet. XX  
Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI   

oriana's farewell.  
Hark, hear you not a heavenly harmony. XXII   

Songs to 6. voices.  
Dear, if you wish my dying. XXIII  
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XXV  
Thirsis, Thirsis on his fair Phillis. XXVI  
Merely my love and I. XXVII  
Music some thinks no Music is. XXVIII   
FINIS.   

TO MY HONOURABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir William Norres Knight of the honourable order of the Bath: Thomas Bateson wisheth long life, health and happiness, with increase of honour.  
SIR, I am bold to present unto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you have heretofore (rather for your exceeding love to me, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) given them your private applause & liking, when I sent them to you ever as they were composed in lose papers, so you will much more now, (for now indeed when they come to the world's eye and censure, they had more need of it then ever) Vouchsafe to give them your good countenance and public patronage. In truth I must confess, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & find no place so fit to light on as on the branches of your favour: where (such is your love to me and Music) I hope they willbe so shrouded in the leaves of your good liking, that you will give leave neither to any ravenous Kite nor crafty fowler (I mean neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more sly detractor) to devour, or harm them, that cannot succour nor shift for themselves. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your ears with the choicest of delightful Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not pass without delight, if they might yield it to you. But whatsoever they are, yours they are, & for you only they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage me to this; Your love to Music doth not only challenge it of me, but even the uttermost that musics art can afford; which if it were in me, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate endeavours be accepted, since this is all that I can perform: except the honouring of your Virtues, and observance of your worthiness.  
Yours in all love and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.   


This song should have been printed in the set of oriana's.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
WHen O╌riana walked to take the air, The world did strive to entertain so fair, the world ij. the world ij. By Flora fair and sweetest flowers were strone, by Flora ij. were strone, A long the way for her to tread upon, a long ij. The trees did blossom, Silver ri╌uers run, the trees ij. The wind did gently play up╌on her fan: And then for to delight her grace's ear, her ij. her ij. The woods a temple seemed, the birds a choir. the woods ij. the woods ij. Then sang the shepherds & Nymphs of Diana, and ij. and ij. and ij. Long live fair O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. Long live fair O╌ria╌na▪ fair O╌ri╌ana.   

I.  
Of 3. voc. ALTUS.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet, where pure white and crimson meet: where ij. Beauty is a lovely sweet, where pure white & crimson meet: where ij. Joined with favour of the face, chiefest flower of female race: chiefest ij. Oh chiefest flower of female race. But if virtue might be seen, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine. it ij. it ij. it ij. delight the eine. But if virtue might be seen, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine. it ij. it ij. it ij. delight the eine.   

II.  
Of 3. voc. ALTUS.  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart, in beauty's praise, whose greatness doth deny, words to his thoughts, words ij. & thoughts to his desert: & thoughts ij. and ij. which high conceit since nothing can supply, can supply, which ij. since nothing can supply, Love here constrained through conquest to confess: bids silence sigh, that tongue cannot express▪ bids ij. bids si╌lence sigh that ij. that ij. cannot ex╌presse. Love here constrained through conquest to con╌fesse: bids silence sigh, that ij. bids ij. bids si╌lence sigh, that tongue can not ex╌presse. that tongue can not, can not ex╌presse.   

III.  
Of 3. voc. ALTUS.  
THe Nightingale, the ij. so soon as April bringeth, so ij. unto her rested sense, a perfect waking: unto ij. while late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song book making: and mournfully bewailing, and ij bewailing, her throat in tunes expresseth, what grief her breast oppresseth, what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij.   

FOUR  
Of 3. voc. ALTUS.  
Ay me, ij. ij. Ay me, my mistress scorns my love, Ay me, ij. my love, I fear she will most cruel prove: I fear ij. I fear ij. she will most cruel prove. Ay me: Ay me, I weep, I sigh, I grieve & groan, I weep, ij. I ij. I grieve and groan, I ij. yet she regardeth not, yet ij. my moan: then love adieu, adieu, ij. ij. adieu it sits not me, to weep for her that laughs at thee. to ij. to ij. to ij. for her, to ij that laughs at thee, to weep for her, that laughs at thee. Dear. but I Love ij. killed the Dear.   

V  
Of 3. voc. ALTUS.  
COme follow me fair Nymphs, come ij. come ij. come ij, come follow me fair Nymphs, hie run apace, run, high i●▪ run apace, Diana hunting, honoureth, honoureth this chase: Dia╌na ij. softly, for fear her game we rouse, softly ij. softly ij. lodged in this grove of briars & bows. Hark how the huntsmen, how ij. winds their horns, see how the dear, see ij. mounts over the thorns: the black, ij. ij. O ho, O ho, he pinched thee there, Gown ran well, oh Gown ij. ran well, but I love killed the dear▪ the black, ij. ij. O ho, O ho he pinched thee there, Gown ran well, oh Gown ij. ran well, but I Love killed the   

VI  
Of 3 voc. ALTUS.  
YOur shining eyes and gowlden hair, your Lily rosed lips most fair: your ij. your other beauties that ex╌cell, your ij. men can not choose, but like them well. ij men ij. But when for them, they say they'll die, they ij. believe them not they do but lie. but lie. be ij. be ij. believe them not they do but lie. they do but lie. But when for them, they say they'll die: they ij. believe them not they do but lie. but lie. be ij. be ij. believe them not they do but lie. they do but lie.  
Hear endeth the songs of 3. parts.   

VII.  
Of 4. voc. ALTUS.  
whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers perfume the Air: perfume ij. & all to make, to make thee stay. The climbing woodbine clipping all these bowers, all ij. eclipse thee likewise: ij. for fear thou pass a╌way for ij. Fortune our friend, ij. Our foe will not gainsay not gainsay. Stay but a while, but a while, Phoebe no tel╌tale is: She her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss. Isle ij. She ij. I'll my ij. Stay but a while, but a while, Phoebe no tel╌tale is, she her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss. Isle ij. She ij. I'll my ij.   

VIII.  
Of 4 voc. ALTUS.  
DAme Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear & shield. Dame Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field, he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear & shield. The roaring Canons thunder out, thun╌der out, such terrors as not fit: a tender Imp of your regard, which dallying still doth sit. ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit.   

IX.  
Of 4. voc. ALTUS.  
Down from above, falls jove in rain, falls jove in rain, into fair Danae's lap amain: into ij. into ij. thereat she starts, thereat, yet Lamblike still: yet Lamblike still: at last performeth all his will. at ij. Both high and low such golden gifts, such: ij. such ij. such: ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will put their conscience to the shift. their conscience to the shift.   

X.  
Of 4. voc. ALTUS.  
A Dew sweet love, a dew, a dew, a dew, sweet love, a dew, ij. O thus to part, kills my bleeding heart: O ij. O ij. Yet fates alas, will have it so, yet ij. yet ij. will have it so, will ij. Cruel their doom ij. so to de╌cree, at once to part two lovers true. at ij. at once to part two lovers true. But since we needs must part: but ij. but ij. once again, ij. ij. a dew sweet heart. a dew a dew a dew sweet heart. a dew, ij. a dew, sweet heart.   

XI.  
Of 4 voc. ALTUS.  
I Flove be blind, how hath he then the sight, how ij. with beauty's beams my careless heart to wound: to wound: my care╌ij. my care╌ij. Or if a boy, ij. how hath he then the might, ij. the might, the mighti'st conquerors to bring to ground to ij. ground. the ij. O no he is not blind, but I that lose, O no ij. my thoughts, the ways that bring to restless fears: my thoughts ij. restless fears: Nor yet a boy, but I that live in dread, that live ij. mixed with hope, and seek for joy in tears. mixed with ij. for joy in tears.   

XII.  
Of 4. voc. ALTUS.  
PHillis, far well, I may no longer live: I ij. Yet if I die, yet ij. fair Phillis I forgive: ij. I live to long, I ij. come gentle death and end: come ij. my endless torment or my grief, my grief amend. my endless ij. my endless torment, or my grief amend. I live to long, ij. Come gentle death & end: ij. my endless torment, or my grief, my grief amend. my endless ij. my endless torment or my grief amend.  
Hear endeth the songs of 4 parts.   

XIII.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS.  
THose sweet delightful Lil╌lieses, which nature gave my Phillis: which ij. which ij. which ij. my Phil╌lis: Those sweet delightful Lil╌lieses, which nature gave my Phillis, which ij. which ij. which nature: ij. Ay me, aye: me, ay me, my Phillis, my Phillis, each hour makes me, makes me to languish: So grievous is my pain, my pain and an╌guish. my pain and anguish. So ij. So ij. my pain and an╌guish. Ay me, Ay me, Ay me my Phillis, my Phillis, each hour makes me, makes me to lan╌guish. So grievous is my pain, my pain and an╌guish. my pain and anguish, So ij. So ij. my pain and an╌guish.   

XIIII.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS.  
AND must I needs departed then, And ij. and ij. departed then, depart then, can pit╌tie none come nigh her: can ij. can pity ij. come ij. can pity ij. farewell, ij. ij. ij. alas desert then, farewell alas desert then: ij. ij. O break asunder heart to satisfy her. O ij. O ij. O ij. alas to sa╌tisfie her. to ij. to ij. to satisfy, to sa╌tis╌fie her, farewell, ij. ij. farewell alas desert then, ij. farewell, ij. farewell: ij. O break asunder heart, to satisfy her. O ij. O ij. O ij. alas to ij. ij.   

XV.  
Of 5. voc. The first part. ALTUS.  
SWeet Gemma, when I first beheld thy beauty, thy beauty, I vowed thee service, ij. ij. ij. honour, love, and duty, and duty, and duty, honour, love and duty, Oh then, ij. I said, the best: I ij. I ij. is hi╌ther come, to make me blest: me blest: but thou alas, alas, ij. ij. a╌las, a╌las sweet, thou dost not regard, dost ij. my vow, go, go let me not see, ij. ij. go: ij. not see, Cruel though fairest thee. though: ij. Cruel ij. Cruel ij. though fairest thee. to ij. ij. to satisfy her.   

XVI.  
Of 5. voc. The second part. ALTUS.  
YEt stay al╌way, Yet ij. yet ij. yet ij. yet ij. alway, be chai╌ned to my heart, to my heart, with links of love, that we do never part: with ij. with ij. that we do ne╌ver part. Then I'll not call thee Serpent, Tiger cruel, (O) Tiger cru╌ell, but my sweet Gemma and my dearest jewel. but ij. but ij. Gem╌ma but my sweet Gemma, and my dearest ju╌ell. and my dearest ju╌ell.   

XVII.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS.  
STrange were the life, strange, ij. strange ij. that eu'╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, that ij. rare were the gem, rare were ij. that every one would seek, that ij. and little little worth, and little ij. and little ij. that all would let a╌lone, that ij. sweet were the meat, sweet ij. sweet ij. that eu'╌rie one would choose, and sour the sauce, and ij. and sour ij. and ij. that all men would re╌fuse.   

XVIII.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS'  
ALas, a╌las, where is my Love? where is my sweeting? where is ij. That hath stolen away my heart, that ij. meeting: god send us meeting, that renewing my lament, that ij. with friendly greeting, with ij. with friend: ij. She may release my smart, & all my weeping: she ij. she ij. But if my sight she fly, till heartless I die, till ij. My grieved ghost with shrieks & dreadful crying, & dread: ij. & dread: ij. always about her flying, fly╌ing, shall murmur out complaining, to be revenged of all her deep disdaining. to ij. to ij. to ij.   

XIX.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS.  
O Fly not Love, O fly not me, O fly not love, O fly not me, O fly not love, O fly not me, O ij. O fly not me, not me, stay but a while, but ij. but ij. but ij. stay thee, stay but awhile but ij. stay thee, O stay thee, & hear a wretch complai╌ning, complaining, his grief through thy disdaining: thy disdaining: O do not thus, do not thus unfriendly use me, O do not thus unfriendly O do ij. use me, O do not thus unfriendly use me, to kiss me once and so re╌fuse me. to kiss ij. to kiss ij. and so re╌fuse me.   

XX.  
Of 5. Voc. ALTUS.  
WHo prostrate lies at women's feet, at woe: ij. And calls them darlings dear and sweet, dear and sweet, and calls ij. and calls ij. and sweet, and calls ij. Protest╌ing love and craving grace, And prai╌sing oft, and prai╌sing oft a foolish face, a ij. and prai: ij. are often times deceived at last, then catch at nought and hold it fast. then ij. then catch at nought and hold it fast, it fast. are often times deceived at last, then catch at nought and hold it fast. then catch at nought and hold it fast, then catch at nought and hold it fast. it fast.   

XXI.  
Of 5. voc. ALTUS.  
SIster awake etc. The day her light, disclo╌seses, her light ij. and the bright morning and ij. doth a╌rise, doth arise, Out of her bed of Roses: out ij. See, See see the clear Sun, the worlds, the world's bright Eye, in at our window peeping: in ij. pee╌ping, Lo how he blusheth, to es╌pie us idle wenches sleeping, us idle ij. therefore awake, make hast I say, and let us without stay╌ing, all in our gowns of green so gay, into the Park a May╌ing. into ij. into ij. in╌to the Park a May╌ing. a May╌ing.   

XXII.  
Of 5 voc. oriana's farewell. ALTUS.  
HArk, hear you not, hear you not a heavenly harmony, a heavenvly harmony, a heavenly harmo╌ny: Is't jove think you, be't jove think you, that plays, ij. ij. that plays upon the Spheres: heavens, heavens, is not this, heavens is not this heavenly melody, heavens ij. hea: ij. is not this, heavenly melody, Where jove himself, himself, himself, where ij. a part in Mu╌sick bears. Now comes in a choir of Nightingales: Mark, mark how the Nymphs & shepherds of the dales, how all do join together in the praise of o╌ri╌ana's life & happy days. of Ori: ij. of Ori: ij. Then sing ye shepherds & Nymphs of Dia╌na, Then ij. & Nymphs ij. Nymphs of Di╌ana, In heaven lives O╌ri╌a╌na, In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij. In ij.  
Hear endeth the Songs of 5. parts.   

XXIII.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
Dear if you wish my dying, if you wish my dy╌ing, Dear, ij. In vain your wish redownds, in vain your prayer, for can he die that breath's not vital air? vital air, that ij. that breathes not vi╌tall air, Then with those eyes that slew me, than ij. that slew me, renew me: re╌new me: re: ij. So shall we both obtain our wished pleasure, our wished pleasure, you my death joying, my death joying, and I my life's sweet treasure. and I my life's sweet treasure. and ij. and I my life's sweet trea╌sure, sweet treasure. and I my life's sweet trea╌sure.   

XXIIII.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, she trips and leaps, she ij. she ij. as gallants do, she trips ij. Up to the hills and down again, and down again, to the vallaies runs she too and fro: runs ij. runs ij. But out alas, but out a╌las, a╌las, but out a╌las, alas, when frosty locks begirds the head, with cark and care, with cark and care: Peace, laugh no more, no more, Peace laugh no more, let pranks go by, let pranks go by, let pranks go by, slow crawling age forbids such ware. slow crawling age, slow crawling age for╌bids such ware, such ware.   

XXV.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
PHillis farewell I may no longer live, I ij. I ij. I may no longer live, Yet if I die, fair Phillis I forgive: fair ij. fair ij. I live to long, come gentle death and end: come ij. come gentle ij. come ij. my endless torment, or my grief, my grief amend. my ij. my ij. my grief amend. or my ij. or my ij. my grief a mend. a╌mend.   

XXVI.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, on his fair Phillis breast repo╌sing, sweetly did languish, did lan╌guish, sweetly ij. sweetly did lan╌guish, when she in loves sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, him kiss: ij. said thus, Thirsis O tell me, O tell me, thy true love best aprooved, thy true ij. art not thou, art not thou my belou╌ed, Then he than he, which to her heart was ever nee╌rest: kissed her again, & said, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy dearest. yes, yes ij. than he which to her heart was ever nee╌rest: kissed her a╌gaine, & said, and said, yes, yes La╌dy, dearest. yes, yes Lady dee╌rest.   

XXVII.  
Of 6. voc. ALTUS.  
MEre╌ly my love and I, my love and I, up╌on the plains were sporting, upon ij. upon ij. were sporting. were ij. cheerfully the Nymphs and Fauns, the ij. oft times to us resor╌ted, oft ij. re╌sorted oft ij. sorrow did not us assail, not ij. we tasted of each pleasure: happy those that may with us, have part of loves rich treasure. have part ij. of loves rich treasure. happy those ij. that may with us, have part of loves rich trea╌sure. of loves rich trea╌sure. of loves rich trea╌sure.   

XXVIII.  
Of 6 voc. ALTUS.  
MVsicke some think no Music is, no Music is, Unless she sing of clip and kiss, Unless ij. unless, ij. unless she sing of clip and kiss, And bring to wanton tunes fie fie fie fie, Or tihha tah╌ha or i'll cry: or tih╌ha: ij. or tihha ij. or i'll cry: But let, but let such rhymes no more disgrace, but ij. such rhymes no more disgrace, Music sprung of heavenly race. Music ij. Music sprung of heaven╌ly race.   
FINIS.   

TENOR.  
The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.  
Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practitioner in the Art of Music, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the City of Chester.  
1604.  
IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.   

THE TABLE.  
Of 6. voc. 

When Oriana walked to take the air: 
 This Song was sent to late, and should have been printed in the set of oriana's: but being a work of this author, I have placed it before this set of his Songs.    

Songs to 3. voices.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet. I  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart. TWO  
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth. III  
Ay me, my mistress scorns my love. IIII  
Come follow me fair Nymphs. V  
Your shining eyes and golden hair. VI   

Songs to 4. voices.  
Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers. VII  
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go. VIII  
Down from above falls jove in rain. IX  
Adieu sweet love, Adieu. X  
If love be blind, how hath he then the sight. XI  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XII   

Songs to 5. voices.  
Those sweet delightful Lilies. XIII  
And must I needs departed then. XIIII  
Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV  
Yet stay alway, be chained to my heart. Second part. XVI  
Strange were the life that every man would like. XVII  
Alas where is my love, where is my sweeting. XVIII  
O fly not love, O fly not me. XIX  
Who prostrate lies at women's feet. XX  
Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI   

oriana's farewell.  
Hark, hear you not a heavenly harmony. XXII   

Songs to 6. voices.  
Dear, if you wish my dying. XXIII  
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XXV  
Thirsis, Thirsis on his fair Phillis. XXVI  
Merely my love and I. XXVII  
Music some thinks no Music is. XXVIII   
FINIS.   

TO MY HONOURABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir William Norres Knight of the honourable order of the Bath: Thomas Bateson wisheth long life, health and happiness, with increase of honour.  
SIR, I am bold to present unto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you have heretofore (rather for your exceeding love to me, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) given them your private applause & liking, when I sent them to you ever as they were composed in lose papers, so you will much more now, (for now indeed when they come to the world's eye and censure, they had more need of it then ever) Vouchsafe to give them your good countenance and public patronage. In truth I must confess, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & find no place so fit to light on as on the branches of your favour: where (such is your love to me and Music) I hope they willbe so shrouded in the leaves of your good liking, that you will give leave neither to any ravenous Kite nor crafty fowler (I mean neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more sly detractor) to devour, or harm them, that cannot succour nor shift for themselves. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your ears with the choicest of delightful Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not pass without delight, if they might yield it to you. But whatsoever they are, yours they are, & for you only they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage me to this; Your love to Music doth not only challenge it of me, but even the uttermost that musics art can afford; which if it were in me, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate endeavours be accepted, since this is all that I can perform: except the honouring of your Virtues, and observance of your worthiness.  
Yours in all love and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.   


This song should have been printed in the set of oriana's.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
WHen Oriana: By Flora fair and sweetest flowers were strone, by ij. by ij. by ij. A long the way for her to tread upon. The trees did blossom, Silver rivers ran, the ij. The wind did gently play, the ij. upon her fan: And then for to delight her grace's ear, her grace's ear, The woods a temple seemed, the birds a choir. the birds a choir. the woods ij. the birds a choir. Then sang the shepherds and Nymphs of Di╌a╌na, and ij. and ij. and ij. and ij. Long live fair O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. Long live fair O╌ri╌a╌na. Long live fair O╌ri╌a╌na.   

VII.  
Of 4. voc. TENOR.  
whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers perfume the Air, perfume ij. & all to make thee stay: The climbing woodbine clipping all these bowers, clipping ij. eclipse thee likewise: eclipse ij. for fear thou pass a╌way. for ij. Fortune our friend, our foe will not gainsay. our foe ij. Stay but a while, Phoebe no tell-tale is: She her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss. She her ij. I will my Phoebe kiss. stay but a while, Phoebe no tell-tale is, she her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss. She her ij. I will my Phoebe kiss.   

VIII.  
Of 4. voc. TENOR.  
DAme Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear and shield. with ij. Dame Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field, he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear and shield. with ij. The roaring Canons thunder out, thun╌der out, ij. such terrors as not fit: a tender Imp of your regard, which dallying still doth sit. which ij. doth sit. which ij. which ij. which ij.   

IX.  
Of 4. voc. TENOR.  
Down from above falls jove in rain, falls ij. into fair Danae's lap amain: into ij. into ij. Thereat she starts, thereat, yet Lam like still: Lamb╌like still: At last performeth all his will. at last ij. performeth ij. With high and low such golden gifts, such ij. such ij. will put their conscience to the shift. will ij. will put their conscience to the shift. their ij.   

X.  
Of 4. voc. TENOR.  
A Dew sweet love, a dew, a ij. A dew, a dew, O thus to part, kills my bleeding heart: O thus ij. O ij. my blee╌ding heart: Yet fates alas, will have it so, will ij. yet ij. yet ij. Cruel their doom, cruel ij. so to decree: at once to part two lovers true. at once ij. But since we needs must part, but ij. we ij. once again, once ij. a dew sweet heart. a dew sweet heart. a dew, a dew, a dew sweet heart, a dew sweet heart.   

XI.  
Of 4 voc. TENOR.  
IF love be blind, how hath he then the sight, the sight, how hath he ij. with beauty's beams my careless heart to wound: to wound: my ij. Or if a boy, how hath he then the might, how ij. the might, how ij. The mightiest conquerors to bring to ground. to bring to ground. the mightiest ij. O no he is not blind, but I that lose my thought, the ways that bring to restless fears: my ij. nor yet a boy, nor ij. but I that live in dread, that ij. mixed with hope, and seek for joy in tears. for ij. mixed with hope, and seek for joy in tears.   

XII.  
Of 4. voc. TENOR.  
PHillis farewell, I may no longer live: I may ij. Yet if I die, yet ij. fair Phillis I forgive: fair ij. I live to long, I ij. come gentle death and end: come ij. my endless torments or my grief amend my grief amend. my endless ij. my end╌ij. I live to long, I live ij. Come gentle death & end: come gentle ij. my endless torment, or my grief amend. my grief amend. my endless ij. my endless ij.  
Hear endeth the songs of .4 parts.   

XIII.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
THose sweet delightful Lilies, which nature gave my Hhillis: my Phillis: which nature ij. which na: ij. Those sweet delightful Lilies, which na: ij. my Phillis: which na: ij. which na: ij. Ay me, ij. ij. Ay me, my Phillis each hour makes me to lan╌guish: to lan╌guish: So grievous is my pain and an╌guish. So ij. So ij. and an╌guish. So ij. Ay me, ij. ij. Ay me, my Phillis, each hour makes me to lan╌guish. to lan╌guish. So grievous is my pain and an╌guish. So ij. So ij. and an╌guish. So grievous is my pain & an╌guish.   

XIIII.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
AND must I needs departed then, And ij. can pity none come nigh her: can ij. can ij. come nigh her: can ij. come nigh her: farewell, fare╌ij. fare╌ij. farewell alas desert then, farewell ij. farewell ij. O break asunder heart, to satisfy her. O ij. O ij. to satisfy her. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. farewell, ij. ij. farewell alas desert then, farewell ij. fare╌ij. O break a╌sunder heart, to satisfy her. O ij. O ij. to satisfy her. to ij. to ij. to ij. to satisfy her.   

XV.  
Of 5. voc. The first part. TENOR.  
SWeet Gemma, O then ij. I said the best, I ij. best, the best, but thou a╌las, a╌las, ij. ij. alas, a╌las sweet, thou dost not regard my vow, go go let me not see, go ij. go ij. go ij. Cruel though fairest thee, fairest thee, cru╌ij. cru╌ij. though fairest thee. cru╌ell though fairest thee.   

XVI.  
Of 5. voc. The second part. TENOR.  
YEt stay alway, yet ij, yet ij. be chained to my heart, be ij. with links of love, with ij. of love, with ij. that we do ne╌ver part. then I'll not call thee Serpent, Tiger cruel, (O) Ti╌ger cruel, but my sweet Gemma, but my ij. and my dearest ju╌ell. but my ij. Gemma, but my ij. and my dearest jewel. dearest jewel.   

XVII.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
STrange were the life, strange ij. strange ij. strange were the life, that eve╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, that should ij. each one, rare were the gem, rare were the gem, that every one would seek, that ij. and little little worth, and ij. and lit╌tle ij. and lit╌tle ij. that all would let a╌lone, that all ij. sweet were the meat, ij. that eve╌rie one would choose, and sour the sauce, and ij. and ij. and ij. and ij. that all men would re╌fuse. refuse.   

XVIII.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
ALas, ij. where is my Love? where is my sweeting? That hath stolen away my heart, God send us meeting: meeting: that renewing my lament, that ij. with friendly greeting, with ij. She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. she ij. But if my sight she fly, till heartless I die, till ij. My grieved ghost with shrieks & dreadful crying, & ij. shall murmur out complaining, to be revenged of all her deep disdaining. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. her deep disdaining.   

XIX.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
O Fly not Love, O fly not me, O fly not love, o fly not me, O fly not love, O fly not me, O fly not me, not me: stay but a while, but ij. but ij. but ij. O stay thee, stay but a while, but ij. but ij. O stay thee, & hear a wretch complaining, and ij. his grief through thy disdai╌ning: O do not thus, do not thus unfriendly use me, O do not thus unfriendly, do not thus un╌friendlie use me, O do not thus, do not thus unfriendly use me, to kiss me once & so re╌fuse me. to kiss ij. to kiss ij. and so re╌fuse me.   

XX.  
Of 5 voc. TENOR.  
WHo prostrate lies at women's feet, at ij. & calls them darlings dear and sweet, and ij. and cales ij. and sweet, and cales them darlings dear and sweet, dear and sweet, and craving grace, And prai╌sing oft, and ij. and ij. a foo╌lish face, a ij. are oftentimes deceived at last, Then catch at nought and hold it fast. then ij. and haold it fast. Are oftentimes deceived at last, Then catch at nought and hold it fast. Then ij. and hold it fast.   

XXI.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
SIster a╌wake, etc. The day her light discloses, and the bright morning, doth arise, doth a╌rise. Out of her bed of Roses, her ij. See, See the clear sun, the world's bright Eye, in at our window peeping: in ij. in ij. Lo how he blusheth, to espy, to espy, us, I╌dle wenches sleeping, us I╌dle ij. therefore awake make hast I say, and let us without staying, all in our gowns of green so gay, into the Park a╌maying, into ij. in╌to ij. a may╌ing in╌to ij. in╌to ij. maying.   

XXII.  
Of 5. voc. TENOR.  
Hark, hear you not a heavenly harmony, a heavenly harmony, be't jove think you, that plays, that plays upon the Spheres? heavens, ij. heavens is not this, is not this, heavens is not this, is not this a heaven╌ly melody, Where jove himself a part, where ij. where ij. a part. in Music bears, hark, how all do join together in the praise, Of o╌riana's life and happy days. of ij. her life and happy days. Then sing ye shepherds & Nymphs of Dia╌na, than ij. then ij. In heaven lives O╌ri╌a╌na, lives Oria╌na, in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. O╌ri╌a╌nae.  
Hear endeth the songs of 5. parts.   

XXIII.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
Dear, if you wish, if you wish my dying, Dear, ij. my dying, in vain your wish redownds, in vain your prayer, for can he die that breathes not vital air: that ij. that ij. that ij. that breathes not vital air: Then with those eyes that slew me, new life infuseing, renew me: renew me, re╌ij. re╌ij. renew me: so shall we both obtain, obtain our wished pleasure, our ij. you my death ioy╌ing, and I my lives sweet treasure. and ij. and ij. and ij. and I my lives sweet trea╌sure.   

XXIIII.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
Fair He╌be, when dame Flora meets, dame ij. dame ij. she trips. and leaps she ij. she trips ij. as gallants do, as ij. Up to the hills & down again, & down again, to the vallaies runs she too and fro: runs she too and fro: runs ij. & fro: But out alas, but out a╌las, but out a╌las, a╌las, with cark & care, and care: Peace, peace, laugh no more, let pranks go by, let ij. let ij. let ij. slow crawling age, forbids such ware. such ware. crawling age forbids such ware.   

XXV.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
PHillis farewell I may no longer live, no longer live: Yet if I die, yet ij. fair Phillis I forgive, fair ij. fair ij. I live to long, come gentle death & end: come two. and end: come gentle ij. My endless torment or my grief a╌mend. my grief a╌mend. my ij. or my grief a╌mend. or my ij. or my ij. my grief a╌mend.   

XXVI.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
THirsis, Thir╌sis, on his fair Phillis breast reposing, Sweetly did languish, did lan╌guish, when she in loves sweet anguish, him kissing gently said thus, said thus with sugared glozing, Thir╌sis O tell me thy true love best aprooved, thy ij. Art not thou, ij. ij. my be╌loved, Then he, ij. which to her heart was ever nee╌rest, was ij. kissed her again, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy dearest. Yes, yes La╌dy dee╌rest, Yes, yes Lady, dearest. Then he, ij. which to her heart was ever nee╌rest, was ij. kissed her again, and said, Yes, yes La╌dy dearest. Yes, ij. dee╌rest. yes, yes ij. dearest.   

XXVII.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
MErely my: Upon the plains were sporting, ij. wear sporting, were ij. cheerfully the Nymphs and Fauns, the ij. the ij. oft times to us resorted, oft ij. sorrow did not us assail, we tasted of each pleasure, happy those ij. that may with us have part of loves rich treasure. of loves ij. have part ij. happy those, hap╌ij. that may with us have part, of loves rich treasure. of loves ij. have part ij. trea╌sure.   

XXVIII.  
Of 6. voc. TENOR.  
MVsicke some think no Music is, Unless she sing of clip and kiss, unless she sing of clip and kiss, unless she sing of clip and kiss, of clip and kiss, unless ij. And bring to wanton tunes fie fie, to wanton tunes fie fie, fie sie, Or ticha tacha, or tihha ta╌ha, or i'll cry, or i'll cry, or tih: ij. i'll cry, But let, but let such rhymes no more disgrace, but ij. but ij. Music sprung of heavenly race. Music ij. Music sprung of heavenly race of heavenly race.  
FINIS.    

BASSUS.  
The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.  
Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practitioner in the Art of Music, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the City of Chester.  
1604.  
IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.   

THE TABLE.  
Of 6. voc. 

When Oriana walked to take the air: 
 This Song was sent to late, and should have been printed in the set of oriana's: but being a work of this author, I have placed it before this set of his Songs.    

Songs to 3. voices.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet. I  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart. TWO  
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth. III  
Ay me, my mistress scorns my love. IIII  
Come follow me fair Nymphs. V  
Your shining eyes and golden hair. VI   

Songs to 4. voices.  
Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers. VII  
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go. VIII  
Down from above falls jove in rain. IX  
A due sweet love, A due. X  
If love be blind, how hath he then the sight. XI  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XII   

Songs to 5. voices.  
Those sweet delightful Lilies. XIII  
And must I needs departed then. XIIII  
Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV  
Yet stay alway, be chained to my heart. Second part. XVI  
Strange were the life that every man would like. XVII  
Alas where is my love, where is my sweeting. XVIII  
O fly not love, O fly not me. XIX  
Who prostrate lies at women's feet. XX  
Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI   

oriana's farewell.  
Hark, hear you not a heavenly harmony. XXII   

Songs to 6. voices.  
Dear, if you wish my dying. XXIII  
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XXV  
Thirsis, Thirsis on his fair Phillis. XXVI  
Merely my love and I. XXVII  
Music some thinks no Music is. XXVIII   
FINIS.   

TO MY HONOURABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir William Norres Knight of the honourable order of the Bath: Thomas Bateson wisheth long life, health and happiness, with increase of honour.  
SIR, I am bold to present unto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you have heretofore (rather for your exceeding love to me, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) given them your private applause & liking, when I sent them to you ever as they were composed in lose papers, so you will much more now, (for now indeed when they come to the world's eye and censure, they had more need of it then ever) Vouchsafe to give them your good countenance and public patronage. In truth I must confess, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & find no place so fit to light on as on the branches of your favour: where (such is your love to me and Music) I hope they willbe so shrouded in the leaves of your good liking, that you will give leave neither to any ravenous Kite nor crafty fowler (I mean neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more sly detractor) to devour, or harm them, that cannot succour nor shift for themselves. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your ears with the choicest of delightful Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not pass without delight, if they might yield it to you. But whatsoever they are, yours they are, & for you only they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage me to this; Your love to Music doth not only challenge it of me, but even the uttermost that musics art can afford; which if it were in me, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate endeavours be accepted, since this is all that I can perform: except the honouring of your Virtues, and observance of your worthiness.  
Yours in all love and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.   


This song should have been printed in the set of oriana's.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
WHen Oriana: By Flora fair and sweetest flowers were strone, by Flora ij. were strone, A long the way for her to tread upon: The trees did blossom, silver rivers ran, The wind did gently play upon her fan: And then for to delight her grace's ear, and then ij. The woods a temple seemed, the birds a choir, The woods ij. Then sang the Shepherds and Nymphs of Di╌a╌na, and ij. and Nymphs of Di╌a╌na, Long live fair O╌ri╌a╌na╌faire O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. fair O╌ri╌a╌na.   

I.  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet, where pure white & crimson meet: where ij. Beauty is a lovely sweet, where pure white and crimson meet: where ij. Joined with favour of the face, chiefest flower of female race: chiefest ij. Oh chiefest flower of female race. But if virtue might be seen, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine, it would more, it ij. it ij. it would more delight the eine. But if virtue might be seen, but ij. it would more, it ij. delight the eine, it would more, it ij. it ij. it ij. delight the eine.   

II.  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart, in beauty's praise, whose greatness doth deny, words to his thoughts, words ij. and thoughts to his desert: and ij. which high conceit since nothing can supply, which ij. conceit which ij. since nothing can supply, Love here constrained through conquest to confess: bids silence sigh that tongue cannot express bids ij. bids ij. that tongue cannot express, that ij. Love here constrained through conquest to confess: bids silence sigh that tongue cannot express: bids ij. bids ij. that tongue cannot express. that ij.   

III.  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
THe Nightingale so soon as April bringeth, bringeth, so ij. bringeth: unto her rested sense, a perfect waking: a ij. unto ij. while late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth: Sings out her woes, sings ij. a thorn her song book making, and mournfully bewailing, bewailing, and ij. bewailing, her throat in tunes expresseth, what grief her breast oppresseth. what ij. what ij. what ij. what ij. what grief her breast oppresseth.   

FOUR  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
Ay me, ij. ij. ij. Ay me, my mistress scorns my love, my love, I fear she will most cruel prove: I ij. she will most cruel prove: Ay me: ij I weep, I sigh, I grieve & groan I ij. I weep, I sigh, I grieve and groan, yet she regardeth not my moan: my moan, than love adieu: ij. ij. ij. adieu it fits not me, to weep for her that laughs at thee. to ij. to ij. to ij. to weep for her, that laughs at thee. Love, I love, but I Love killed the dear.   

V  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
COme follow me fair Nymphs, come ij. hie run apace, hie ij. hie ij. hie ij. Diana hunting honoureth honoureth this chase: Dia╌na ij. softly, softly for fear her game we rouse, we rouse; softly ij. we rouse: lodged in this grove of briars & bows. Hark how the huntsmen, how ij. winds their horns, see how the dear, see how the dear mounts o'er the thorns: the black ij. ij. O ho O ho he pinched thee there, Gown ran well, oh Gown ij. o ij. but I Love killed the dear, the black. ij. ij. O ho O ho he pinched thee there, Gown ran well, oh Gown ij. oh Gown ranwell, but I Love killed the dear: but I   

VI  
Of 3. voc. BASSUS.  
YOur shining eyes and gowlden hair, your Lily rosed lips most fair: your ij. your other beauties that excel, your ij. men can not choose, but like them well. ij men ij but when for them, they say they'll die: ij. believe them not they do but lie. be ij. be ij. they do but lie. but when for them, they say they'll die: ij. believe them not they do but lie. be ij. be ij. they do but lie.  
Hear endeth the songs of 3. parts.   

VII.  
Of 4. voc. BASSUS.  
whether so fast: The climbing woodbine clipping all these bowers, clipping ij. eclipse thee likewise: for fear thou pass a╌way. Our foe will not gainsay, will ij. Stay but a while, She her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss, I will my Phoebe kiss: Stay but a while, she her Endymion, I'll my Phoebe kiss: I will my Phoebe kiss.   

VIII.  
Of 4. voc. BASSUS.  
DAme Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear and shield. Dame Venus hence to Paphos go, for Mars is gone toth' field: he cannot tend sweet loves embrace, in hand with spear and shield. The roaring Canons thun╌der out ij. out: such terrors as not fit: a ten╌der Imp of your regard, which dallying still doth sit. which ij. doth sit. ij. doth sit.   

IX.  
Of 4. voc. BASSUS.  
Down from above, falls jove in rain, into fair Danae's lap amain: into ij. she starts thereat, yet Lamb╌like still, Lamb╌like still, at last performeth all his will. his will. Both high and low such golden gifts, such: ij. will put their conscience to their shifts. will put their conscience to their shifts. their conscience to their shifts.   

X.  
Of 4. voc. BASSUS.  
A Dew a dew, sweet love, a dew, O thus to part, kills my bleeding heart: kills ij. Yet fates a╌las, will have it so, yet ij. Cruel their doom so to de╌cree, at once to part, to part at once, to part two lovers true. But since we needs must part, we needs must part, once again, once again, once again, a dew sweet heart. a dew, sweet heart.   

XI.  
Of 4 voc. BASSUS.  
IF love be blind, how hath he then the sight, the sight, with beauty's beams, my careless heart to wound: my care╌ijs: Or if a boy, how hath he then the might, how ij. the might, the mighti'st conquerors to bring to ground. the ij. to bring to ground. O no he is not blind, but I that lose, but ij. my thoughts, the ways that bring to restless fears: Nor yet a boy, nor ij. but I that live in dread, mixed with hope, and seek for joy in tears. for ij. and seek for joy in tears.   

XII.  
Of 4. voc. BASSUS.  
PHillis, far well, I may no longer live, I may ij. Yet if I die, yet ij. fair Phillis I forgive: I live to long, come gentle death and end, my endless torment, or my grief amend. my endless ij. my endless torment, or my grief amend. I live to long, Come gentle death & end, my endless torment, or my grief, a╌mend. my endless ij. or my ij. my endless torment, or my grief a╌mend.  
Hear endeth the songs of 4 parts.   

XIII.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
THose sweet: etc. Which nature gave my Phillis: which ij. which nature gave, which ij. my Phillis: which nature gave my Phil╌lis, which ij. which ij. which ij. my Phillis, Ay me, ij. my Phil╌lis, each hour makes me to languish: So grievous is my pain and anguish: So ij, my pain, my pain and anguish. Ay me, ij. my Phillis, each hour makes me to lan╌guish: So grievous is my pain, and anguish. So ij. my pain, my pain and anguish.   

XIIII.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
AND must I needs departed then, And ij. can pity none come nigh her: can ij. can ij. farewell, ij. farewell, alas desert then, farewell, ij. farewell, alas farewell alas, alas desert then: O break a╌sunder heart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O break ij. to sa╌tisfie her. to satisfy her, to sa╌tis╌fie her, farewell, farewell, farewell, alas desert then, farewell alas desert then, farewell, alas farewell, a╌las a╌las desert then, O break asunder heart, to satisfy her. O ij. to sa╌tis╌fie her, to satisfy her, to sa╌tis╌fie her.   

XV.  
Of 5. voc. The first part. BASSUS.  
SWeet Gemma, etc. O then, O then, I said, the best I ij. the best, but thou alas, alas, a╌las, a╌las, alas, sweet, thou dost not regard my vow, go, go, let me not see, go, go ij. let me not see, Cruel though fairest thee. Cru╌ell ij. fay╌rest thee.   

XVI.  
Of 5. voc. The second part. BASSUS.  
YEt stay alway, Yet stay alway, yet stay alway, yet stay alway, be chained to my heart, with links of love, with links of love, that we do never part: Then I'll not call thee Serpent, Tiger cruel, (O) Ti╌ger cruel, but my sweet Gemma, and my dearest jewel. but my sweet Gem╌ma, and my dearest ju╌ell.   

XVII.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
STrange were the life, strange, strange were the life, that eu'╌rie man would like, more strange the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, rare were the gem, rare were ij. that every one would seek, would seek, and little lit╌tle worth, and little ij. and little ij. that all would let a╌lone, sweet were the meat, sweet ij. that eve╌rie one would choose, and sour the sauce, and ij. and sour ij. that all men would re╌fuse.   

XVIII.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
ALas, where is my Love? where is my sweeting? That hath stolen away my heart, meeting: meeting: that renewing my lament, with friendly greeting, She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. But if my sight she fly, till heartless I die, till ij. My grieved ghost with shrieks & dreadful cry╌ing, and dreadful crying, & dreadful ij. shall murmur out complaining, to be revenged of her disdaining▪ to be revenged of all her deep disdaining, to ij. deep disdaining to be revenged of all her deep disdaining.   

XIX.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
O Fly not Love, O fly not me, O fly not love, O fly not me, O fly not me, stay but a while, but a while, but a while, but ij. but ij. but a while, Oh stay thee, & hear a wretch complai╌ning, and ij. his grief through thy disdai╌ning: O do not thus, do not thus unfriendly use me, do not thus unfriendly use me, O do not thus, do not thus, ij. unfriendly use me, to kiss me once and so re╌fuse me. to kiss me once, and so re╌fuse me.   

XX.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
WHo prostrate lies at women's feet, at ij. & calls them darlings dear and sweet, and ij. and calls ij. and calls them darlings dear and sweet, and craving grace, And prai╌sing oft, and prai╌sing oft, a foolish face, and praising oft, a foo╌lish face, are of╌ten times deceived at last, then catch at nought and hold it fast. are often times deceived at last, then catch at nought and hold it fast.   

XXI.  
Of 5. voc. BASSUS.  
SIster awake etc. See, see See the clear Sun, the world's bright Eye, in at our window peeping: in at ij. Lo how he blusheth, to espy us idle wenches sleeping, us idle wenches slee╌ping, therefore a╌wake make hast I say, and let us without staying, into the Park a Maying. into ij. in╌to the Park a Maying, a Maying.   

XXII.  
Of 5 voc. oriana's farewell. BASSUS.  
HArk, hear you not a heavenly harmony, a ij. be't jove think you that plays, that plays, that plays up╌on the Spheres, Heavens, heavens is not this, heavens ij. heavenly melo╌die, Where jove himself a part in Mu╌sick bears, a part in Music bears, hark, how all do join together in the praise, Of o╌ri╌ana's life and happy days. of ij. Then sing ye shepherds and Nymphs of Di╌a╌na, and Nymphs of Di╌a╌na, than ij. In heaven lives O╌ri╌a╌na. in ij. in ij. in ij. In heaven lives O╌ri╌ana▪ in ij. in ij.  
Hear endeth the songs of 5. parts.   

XXIII.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
Dear if you wish, if you wish my dying, Dear, ij. In vain your wish redownds, in ij. in vain your prayer, for can he die, that breath's not vital air? that ij. that ij. Then with those eyes that slew me, than ij. new life in╌fuseing, renew me: renew me: So shall we both obtain our wished pleasure, our ij. you my death joying, and I my life's sweet treasure. and ij. and I and I my lives sweet treasure. my life's sweet treasure.   

XXIIII.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
Fair He╌be, when dame Flora meets, dame Flora meets, she trips & leaps, she ij. she ij. as gallants do, she ij. as gallants do: Up to the hills, and down again, up to ij. to the vallaies runs she too & fro, runs she too and fro: too and fro, runs she too and fro. But out a╌las, but out ij. alas, with cark & care, with ij. Peace, laugh no more, no more, let pranks go by, let ij. let ij. slow crawling age, for╌bids such ware. slow crawling ij. forbids such ware.   

XXV.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
PHillis farewell I may no longer live, I may no longer live, Yet if I die, if I die, fair Phillis I forgive: fair ij. fair ij. I live to long, come gentle death and end, come ij. and end, come ij. my end╌les' torment, or my grief amend. my endless ij. my endless ij. or my grief a mend. my grief amend. or my ij. a╌mend. my grief a╌mend.   

XXVI.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, on his fair Phillis breast reposing, sweetly did lan╌guish, sweetly ij. did languish, when she in loves sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, him kiss: ij. Thirsis O tell me, thy true love best aprooved, thy true ij. art not thou, art not thou my beloved: Then he which to her heart was ever nearest: kissed her again, & said, kissed her again, and said, and said, Yes, yes, yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest▪ yes, yes ij Then he which to her heart was ever nearest: kissed her again, and said, kissed her again and said, and said, yes yes, yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. yes, yes, La╌dy dearest.   

XXVII.  
Of 6 voc. BASSUS.  
MErely etc. Upon the plains were sporting, were spor╌ting, cheerfully the Nymphs & Fauns, the Nymphs and Fauns, oft times to us resorted, to us resor╌ted, sorrow did not us assail, assail, assail, we tasted of each pleasure. happy those that may with us have part of loves rich treasure. rich treasure. happy those that may with us have part of loves, rich treasure. rich treasure.   

XXVIII.  
Of 6. voc. BASSUS.  
MV╌sick some think no Mu╌sick is, unless she sing of clip & kiss, unless ij. And bring to wanton tunes fie fie, or tihha tah╌ha, or i'll cry: or tihha ij. or tihha ij. or i'll cry: But let, but let such rhymes no more disgrace, such ij. Music sprung of heavenly race. Music ij. of heavenly race. of heavenly race.   
FINIS.   

QVINTUS.  
The first set of English MADRIGALES: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.  
Newly composed by Thomas Bateson practitioner in the Art of Music, and Organist of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the City of Chester.  
1604.  
IN LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE.   

THE TABLE.  
Of 6. voc. 

When Oriana walked to take the air: 
 This Song was sent to late, and should have been printed in the set of oriana's: but being a work of this author, I have placed it before this set of his Songs.    

Songs to 3. voices.  
Beauty is a lovely sweet. I  
Love would discharge the duty of his heart. TWO  
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth. III  
Ay me, my mistress scorns my love. IIII  
Come follow me fair Nymphs. V  
Your shining eyes and golden hair. VI   

Songs to 4. voices.  
Whether so fast, see how the kindly flowers. VII  
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go. VIII  
Down from above falls jove in rain. IX  
Adieu sweet love, Adieu. X  
If love be blind, how hath he then the sight. XI  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XII   

Songs to 5. voices.  
Those sweet delightful Lilies. XIII  
And must I needs departed then. XIIII  
Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld. First part. XV  
Yet stay alway, be chained to my heart. Second part. XVI  
Strange were the life that every man would like. XVII  
Alas where is my love, where is my sweeting. XVIII  
O fly not love, O fly not me. XIX  
Who prostrate lies at women's feet. XX  
Sister awake, close not your eyes. XXI   

oriana's farewell.  
Hark, hear you not a heavenly harmony. XXII   

Songs to 6. voices.  
Dear, if you wish my dying. XXIII  
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets. XXIIII  
Phillis farewell, I may no longer live. XXV  
Thirsis, Thirsis on his fair Phillis. XXVI  
Merely my love and I. XXVII  
Music some thinks no Music is. XXVIII   
FINIS.   

TO MY HONOURABLE AND MOST respected good friend: Sir William Norres Knight of the honourable order of the Bath: Thomas Bateson wisheth long life, health and happiness, with increase of honour.  
SIR, I am bold to present unto you these few MADRIGALES, and I pray you as you have heretofore (rather for your exceeding love to me, then for any worth that I acknowledge of the Songs) given them your private applause & liking, when I sent them to you ever as they were composed in lose papers, so you will much more now, (for now indeed when they come to the world's eye and censure, they had more need of it then ever) Vouchsafe to give them your good countenance and public patronage. In truth I must confess, they are like young birds feared out of the nest before they be well feathered, & find no place so fit to light on as on the branches of your favour: where (such is your love to me and Music) I hope they willbe so shrouded in the leaves of your good liking, that you will give leave neither to any ravenous Kite nor crafty fowler (I mean neither to any open mouthed Momus nor more sly detractor) to devour, or harm them, that cannot succour nor shift for themselves. I could wish them a Cage of as many sweet singing Nightingales to salute your ears with the choicest of delightful Notes and the melody of most eare-pleasing harmony, that your idle time might not pass without delight, if they might yield it to you. But whatsoever they are, yours they are, & for you only they were made. It was your good countenance that did encourage me to this; Your love to Music doth not only challenge it of me, but even the uttermost that musics art can afford; which if it were in me, I would most willingly offer to you; Now let these my affectionate endeavours be accepted, since this is all that I can perform: except the honouring of your Virtues, and observance of your worthiness.  
Yours in all love and so obliged, Thomas Bateson.   


This song should have been printed in the set of oriana's.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
WHen O╌ria╌na walked to take the air, The world did strive to entertain so fair, the ij. the ij. did strive to entertain so fair. By Flora fair & sweetest flowers were strone, by ij. were strone, by ij. A long the way for her to tread upon: for ij. The trees did blossom, silver rivers ran, the ij. The wind did gently play upon her fan: And then for to delight her grace's ear, The woods a temple seemed, the birds a choir the birds a choir the woods ij. the birds a choir. Then sang the shepherds & Nymphs of Diana, and ij. and ij. and ij. Long live fair Oriana. Long ij. O╌ri╌a╌na. Long ij. fair Ori╌a╌na.   

XIII.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
THose sweet delightful Lilies, which nature gave, which ij. which nature gave my Phil╌lis, which ij. which nature gave my Phil╌lis, Those sweet delightful Lilies, which nature gave my Phillis, which ij. ij. ij. Ay me, ij. Ay me my Phillis, each hour makes me to lan╌guish. So grievous is my pain, my pain and anguish, so ij. so ij. Ay me, ij. ij. ij. my Phil╌lis, each hour makes me to languish, makes ij. So grievous is my pain and anguish, so grievous is my, pain, so ij. so ij. and anguish.   

XIIII.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
AND must I needs departed then, And ij. and must ij. and must ij. can pit╌tie none come nigh her: can ij. can ij. can ij. nie her, farewell, ij. farewell, alas desert then, farewell, ij. farewell alas, desert then: O break a╌sunder heart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O ij. O break ij. to sa╌tisfie her. to ij. to sa╌tisfie her, to ij. farewell, ij. ij. alas, desert the, desert then, farewell alas ij. farewell ij. O break asunder heart to sa╌tis╌fie her. O break ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij. to sa╌ij.   

XV.  
Of 5. voc. The first part. QVINTUS.  
SWeet Gemma, when I first beheld thy beauty, thy beau╌tie, I vowed thee service, I ij. I ij. I ij. honour, love, and duty: ho ij. ho ij. O then, O then, I said the best, I ij. the best, is hi╌ther come to make me blest, to ij. but thou alas, a╌las, a╌las, a╌las, a╌las, sweet, thou dost not regard, dost not regard my vow's, go, go, let me not see, go, go, let me go, go ij. go ij. let me not see, go, go, ij. let me not see, cruel though fairest thee. fairest thee, cruel ij. cru╌ell though fay╌rest thee.   

XVI.  
Of 5. voc. The second part. QVINTUS.  
YEt stay alway, yet ij, yet stay alway, be chained to my heart, with links of love, that we do never part. with links ij. then I'll not call thee Serpent, Tiger cruel, then ij. (O) Ti╌ger cruel, but my sweet Gemma, and my dearest ju╌ell. but my ij. my dearest ju╌ell. but ij. and my dearest ju╌ell.   

XVII.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
STrange were the life, ij. strange were the life, that e╌ue╌rie man would like, more strange the state, ij. the state, more ij. that should mis╌like each one, rare were the gem, rare were the gem, that e╌ue╌rie one would seek, that ij. would seek, and little little worth, and ij. and lit╌tle ij. and little ij. that all would let alone, sweet were the meat, ij. sweet ij. that eve╌rie one would choose, and sour the sauce, and ij. and sour the sauce, the sauce, that all men would re╌fuse.   

XVIII.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
ALas, ij. where is my Love? where is my sweeting? where ij. That hath stolen away my heart, my heart, God send us meeting, god ij. that renu╌ing my lament, ij. with friendly greeting, ij. ij. She may release my smart and all my weeping: she ij. But if my sight she fly, till heartless I die, till ij. My grieved ghost with shrieks & dreadful crying, cry╌ing, shrieks ij. always about her fly╌ing, flying, Shall murmur out complaining, to be revenged of all her deep disdaining▪ her ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij. to ij.   

XIX.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
O Fly not Love, O fly not me, O fly not love, o fly not me, O fly not love, O fly not love, O fly not love, O fly not me, stay but a while, but ij. (O) but a while, (O) stay thee, stay ij. but a while, stay ij O stay thee, & hear a wretch complai╌ning, and ij. his grief through thy dis╌dai╌ning: O do not thus, do not thus unfriendly use me, O ij. do ij. O ij. do ij. O ij. do ij. to kiss me once and so re╌fuse me. & so refuse me. to ij. refuse me. to kiss me once & so re╌fuse me.   

XX.  
Of 5 voc. QVINTUS.  
WHo prostrate lies at women's feet, at ij. & calls them darlings dear and sweet, dear and sweet, and ij. and calls them darlings dear and sweet, and ij. and ij. dear and sweet, Protesting love and craving grace, And praising oft, and ij. and ij. a foolish face, a ij. Are oftentimes deceived at last, Then catch at nought and hold it fast. then ij. then ij. Are oftentimes deceived at last, Then catch at nought and hold it fast. then ij. it fast, and hold it fast.   

XXI.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
SIster awake close not your eyes, close not your eyes, The day her light discloses, the ij. and the bright morning doth arise, doth a╌rise, Out of her bed of Roses: out ij. her bed of Roses: See, see the clear Sun, the world's bright Eye, the ij. in at our window peeping: in ij. in ij. Lo how he blusheth, to espy us Idle wenches sleeping, us Idle ij. slee╌ping. therefore awake make hast I say, and let us without stay╌ing, into the Park a Maying. into ij. in╌to the Park a Maying. into ij. in╌to ij. a Maying.   

XXII.  
Of 5. voc. QVINTUS.  
Hark, hear you not, hear ij. a heavenly harmony, a ij. a heavenly harmo╌nie, be't love think you, that plays, that plays, ij. that plays upon the Spheres, Heavens is not this, heavens is not this heavenly melody, heavens ij. a heavenly melody, where love himself a part, where ij. in Music bears, a part in Mu╌sick bears, Now comes in a choir of Nightingales, mark, mark how the Nymphs & shephaerds of the dales, how all do join together in the praise of o╌riana's life & hap╌pie days. of o╌ri╌ana's life, of o╌ri╌ana's life & happy days. Then sing ye shepherds & Nymphs of Dia╌na, than ij. Nymphs of Dia╌na. In heaven lives O╌ri╌a na. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij. in ij.  
Hear endeth the songs of 5. parts.   

XXIII.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS  
Dear if you wish my dying, Dear, ij. in vain your wish redownds, in vain ij. in vain your prayer, for can he die that breathes not vital air? that breathes not vital air? that ij. not vital air? Then with those eyes that slew me, than ij. new life in╌fuseing, renew me: renew me: renew me: So shall we both ob╌taine our wished pleasure, our ij. you my dear ioy╌ing, and I my life's sweet treasure▪ and ij. and ij. and I my lives sweet treasure. my life's sweet treasure.   

XXIIII.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
Fair He╌be, when dame Flo╌ra meets, dame Flo╌ra meets, dame ij. dame Flo╌ra meets: she trips & leaps, she ij. she ij. as gallants do, as ij. up to the hills, and down, and down again, up to ij. and down again, again, to the vallaies runs she too & fro, runs ij. too and fro, but out alas, but out ij. begirds the head, with cark and care, with ij. peace, laugh no more, laugh no more, laugh no more, let pranks go by, let ij. let ij. let ij. slow crawling age, forbids such ware. slow crawling ij. forbids such ware.   

XXV.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
PHillis farewell I may no longer live, no longer live, I ij. no longer live, Yet if I die, yet ij. fair Phillis I forgive, fair ij. fair ij. fair Phillis I forgive, I live to long, I live to long, come gentle death and end: come ij. come ij. My endless torment or my grief a╌mend. my end: ij. my end: ij. or my grief amend. or my grief amend. my grief amend. or my grief, or my grief, my grief amend.   

XXVI.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
THir╌sis, Thir╌sis, ij. on his fair Phillis breast reposing, sweetly did lan╌guish, did languish, when she in loves sweet anguish, him kissing gently, said thus, said thus, said thus, with sugared glozing, Thirsis O tell me, thy true love best aprooved, best ij. Art not thou, art ij. my belo╌ued, Then he, which to her heart was ever nee╌rest. kissed her again, & said, kissed ij. and said, Yes, yes yes yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. yes, yes ij. yes, yes, La╌dy dee╌rest. dearest: Then he, which to her heart was ever nee╌rest, kissed her again, & said, kissed ij. and said, Yes, yes yes yes La╌dy dearest. yes yes ij. yes yes La╌dy dee╌rest. dearest.   

XXVII.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
MErely etc. Upon the plains were spor╌ting, were sporting, were ij. cheerfully the Nymphs and Fauns, the ij. the ij. oft times to us resorted, oft ij. to us resorted, sorrow did not us assail, us ij. we tasted of each plea╌sure, happy those that may with us have part of loves rich trea╌sure. of loves ij. of loves ij. happy those, ij. that may with us have part, of loves rich treasure. have part ij. of loves rich treasure.   

XXVIII.  
Of 6. voc. QVINTUS.  
MVsick some think no Music is, Music ij. unless she sing of clip & kiss, unless she sing: ij. unless ij. unless ij. and bring to wanton tunes fie fie fie fie: and ij or tihha tahha, or i'll cry: or tihha ij. or tihha ij. But let, but let such rhymes no more disgrace, but let ij. no more disgrace, Music sprung of heavenly race. Music ij. Music sprung of heavenly race.   
FINIS.