CANTVS THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Voyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609 LONDON Printed by Tho Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe understanding you have in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour often wants the fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne up by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought upon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBYE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amint as dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coridon thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS I. COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing Now figh and groane Dead is my loue my hope my ioy ij my spring Dead dead gone dead is my loue my hope my ioy my spring O she that was your summers Queen your dayes delight is gone and will no more be seene O cruell spight Breake all your Pipes that wont to sound with plea sant cheere And cast your selues vpon the ground to waile my deere to waile my deere Come shepheard swaynes Come Nimphs and all a roe Come Nimphs and all a roe ij to help me cry Dead is my loue ij Dead is my loue ij And seeing she is so ij loe now I dye loe now I dye II. FLourish ye hillockes set with fragrant flowers ij So gra ced with her der ty whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers bewayling loues impi ety Happy yee are be prodigall disposed disdaine not loues lamenting ij Let me ij but kisse those steps those steps where she repo sed to ease my harts tormen ting to ease my harts tormen ting then while she flyes me ij here I lye and languish sounding my sorrowes ij ij sor rowes tun'd in notes of anguish tun'd in notes tun'd in notes ij ij ij of anguish III. AH cruell Amarillis ij since thou takst delight to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie ij dit tie of a dolefull dit tie To triumph ij ij ij ij still without remorse or pittie I loath this life Death must my sorrowes right ij And least vaine hope ij my miseries renue Come quickly death ij reaue me of breath Ah cruell Amarillis ij ij Cruell Amarillis Amarillis cruell Ama-rillis cruell a-dew adew IIII. SO light is loue ij in matchles beautie shining So light is loue in matchles beautie shi ning When she reuisits Cypris hallowed bowers Two feeble doues harnest in silken twi ning ij harnest in silken twi ning can draw her Chariot midst the Paphian flowers can draw her Chariot midst the Paphian flowers ij Lightnes to loue ij how ill it fit teth Light nesse to loue how ill it fit teth lightnesse to loue light nesse to loue how ill it fit teth so hea uie on my hart she sitteth Lightnes to loue how ill it fit teth light nes to loue ij how ill it fitteth light nes to loue ij ij how ill it fitteth so heauy on my hart O on my hart she sitteth V. AS faire as morne as fresh as May A pretty grace in saying nay ij Smil'st thou sweet hart ij then sing and say Ta na na no ij Ta na na na c. But O ij ij that loue inchanting eye Loe here my doubtful doome I try But O ij ij that loue en chanting eye Loe here my doubtfull doome I try my doubt full doome I try Tell me my sweet liue I or dye ij Tell me my sweet liue I or dye ij ij She smiles ij Fa la la c. Ah she frownes Aye me Aye me I dye I dye VI. O What shall I doe or whether shall I turne me Shall I make vnto her eyes ij O no they 'l burn me Shall I seale vp my eies speak my part then in a floud of tears ij ij I drown my hart for tears being stopt will swel wil swel will swel for scope though they o'reflow loue life and hope By beauties eye I le chuse to dye At thy feet I fall fayre Creature rich in beautie And for pitty call for pittie call O kill not loue and duty ij ij ij Let
doe loue thee O O cruell fates ij See now a way shee 's flying ij And flye she will and leaue me dying and flye she will alas a las alas alas and leaue me dy ing Farewell fare well farewell most faire farewell farewell yet more disdainefull Was neuer griefe like mine nor death more painfull O O cruell fates ij See now a way shee 's flying ij And flye shee will ij alas a las and leaue me dy-ing Farewell farewell most fayre farewell farewell was ne uer griefe like mine nor death more painefull XXXI DRaw on sweet night ij best friend vnto those cares That do a rise from painfull melancholy arise from painful me-lancholy My life so ill through want of comfort fares That vn-to thee to thee I consecrate it who ly ij Sweet night draw on ij O sweet night draw on sweet night draw on ij my griefes when they be told To shades and darknes find some ease from pai ning And while thou all in silence dost en fold in silence dost enfold while thou all in silence dost en fold I then shall haue best time for my complaining ij for my complay ning I then shall haue best time for my complaining XXXII STAY Coridon thou swaine talke not so soone of dying What though thy hart be slaine ij What though thy loue be fly ing She threatens thee but dares not strike ij ij Thy Nimph is light and shadow like ij ij Thy Nimph is light and shadow like Thy Nimph is light and shadow like ij For if thou follow her ij Shee le flye from thee ij ij shee le flye from thee But if thou flye from her shee le fol low thee shee le follow thee shee le follow thee ij ij ij For if thou follow her ij shee le flye from thee from thee But if thou flye from her ij shee le fol low thee But if thou flye from her shee le fol low thee shee le follow thee ij shee le follow thee XXXIII SOftly ij O softly drop my eyes least you be dry And make my hart with griefe to melt and dye Now powre out teares apace Now powre out teares apace ij Now stay O heauy case O sowre sweet woe alas woe alas a las O griefe O ioy why striue you so Can griefes and ioyes ij at once in one poore hart consent Then sigh and sing reioyce lament ij lament Aye me Aye me O passions strange and vi-olent Was neuer poore wretch so sore tormen ted Nor ioy nor griefe can make my hart con tented Was neuer poore wretch so sore tormen ted Nor ioy nor griefe can make my hart conten ted For while with ioy I looke on hye Downe downe I fall with griefe and dye ij downe I fall Downe downe I fall ij For while vvith ioy I looke on hye Downe dovvne I fall ij Downe downe I fall with griefe and dye XXXIIII LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary With noyse of these my shrikes cryes that fill the aire ij cryes that fill the ayre She onely who should make me mery heares not my prayer That I a las that I alas alas misfortunes sonne and heyre that I alas alas mis fortunes son heyre Hope in none other hope but in dis paire O vnkind ij O vnkinde and cruell Then dye I will to ease thee ij Yet if I dye the world will thee controule Loe here lyes one ij Alas poore soule A true loues Martyr A Martyr A true loues Martyr FINIS ALTVS THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Voyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609. LONDON Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour often wants the fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBYE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coridon thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS I. COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing Now figh and
lament Aye me Aye me ij O passions strange and vi o lent Was neuer wretch so sore tormented Nor ioy nor griefe can make my hart contented ij conten ted For while with ioy I looke on hye Downe downe I fall with griefe and dye ij Downe downe I fall ij ij Downe dovvne I fall For while vvith ioy I looke on hye ij Downe downe I fall for while with ioy I looke on hye I fall and dye XXXIIII LOng haue I made these hils and val lies weary With noyse of these my shrikes and cryes that fill the aire ij of with cryes that fill the ayre She onely who should make me mery That I a-las that I alas misfortunes sonne and heyre ij that I a-las alas mis fortunes sonne and heyre Hope in none o ther hope but in dispaire O vnkind O vn kinde ij ij If thus my death may please thee Then dye I will to ease thee ij Yet if I dye the world will thee controule And write vpon my tombe O sweet departure Loe here lyes one ij ij Alas poore soule A true loues Martyr ij ij FINIS QVINTVS THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Uoyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609. LONDON Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour often wants the fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBYE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coridon thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS XVII First Part. SWeet hony sucking Bees ij why doe you still ij ij surfet on Roses Pincks and Vi olets As if the choysest Nec ctar lay in them wherewith you store your curious Cabinets Ah make your flight to Melisuaniaes lips Ah make your flight to Melisuaniaes lips there may you reuell there may you reuell in Ambrosian cheere Where smi ling Ro ses and sweet Lillies sit there may you reuell keeping their Spring-tide graces ij keeping their Spring-tide graces all the yeere keeping their Spring-tide graces all the yeere keeping their Spring-tide Spring-tide graces all the yeere XVIII Second part YEt Sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get sting not sting not her soft lips Oh beware of that ij ij Oh be ware Oh beware of that ij For if one fla ming dart come from her eye ij ij was neuer dart so sharp Ah then you dye then you dye ij ij Ah then you dye For if one fla ming dart come from her eye ij ij was neuer dart so sharpe Ah then you dye then you dye then you dye Ah then you dye then you dye was neuer dart so sharpe Ah then you dye ij you dye Ah then you dye ij ij you dye Ah then you dye you dye Ah then you dye XIX ALl plea sure is of this condi ti on It pricks men forward to fru-i ti-on ij It pricks men forward to fru-i ti-on But if enioy'd then like the humming Bee then like the hum ming Bee ij ij The honie being shed away doth flee a way doth flee But leaues a sting that wounds the inward hart But leaues a sting that wounds ij ij With gnawing griefe and neuer ending smart ij With gnawing griefe and neuer ending smart XX. OFt haue I vow'd how deerely I did loue thee how deerely I did loue thee ij And oft obseru'd thee with all willing dutie Sighs I haue sent still hoping still hoping to remoue thee still hoping still hoping to remoue thee Millions of teares ij I tendred to thy beautie Millions of teares I tendred to thy beautie Yet thou of sighs and silly teares re-gardlesse yet thou of sighs and sil ly teares re-gard lesse suffrest my feeble hart my fee-ble hart to pine with anguish with an guish suffrest my fee-ble hart to pine with anguish Whilst all my barren hopes re turne re ward lesse My better dayes doe wast and I doe languish my better dayes doe wast and I doe languish my bet
le flye from thee from thee But if thou flye from her ij shee le fol low thee But if thou flye from her shee le fol low thee shee le follow thee ij ij For if thou follow ij shee le flye from thee ij shee le flye from thee But if thou flye from her shee le fol low thee shee le follow thee ij shee le follow thee ij shee le follow thee XXXIII SOftly softly O softly drop my eyes least you be dry and make my hart with griefe with griefe to melt and dye Now powre out teares apace ij ij Now stay O heauy case O sowre sweet woe alas woe a las alas alas O griefe O ioy why striue you so Can paynes and ioyes ij and ioyes in one poore hart consent Then sigh Then sigh and sing re ioyce lament ij Aye me ij Aye me O passions strange and vi-o-lent Was neuer poore wretch so sore tormen ted ij Nor ioy nor griefe can make my hart conten ted ij Downe downe I fall For while vvith ioy I looke on hye ij ij Downe downe I fall ij ij for while with ioy I looke on hye Downe downe I fall ij Downe dovvne I fall with griefe and dye XXXIIII LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary With noyse of these my shrikes and cryes that fill the aire ij with She onely who should make me mery heares not my praier That I a las alas mis fortunes spmme and heyre ij Hope in none other hope but in dispaire O vnkinde and cruell O vn kinde ij ij ij and cru ell If thus my death may please thee Then will I dye to ease thee Yet if I dye the world will thee controule And write vpon my tombe O sweet departure Loe here lyes one ij ij A las poore soule A true loues Martyr ij A true loues Martyr FINIS TENOR THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Voyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609. LONDON Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour often wants the fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBYE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coriden thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS IX WHen Cloris heard of her Amin-tas dy ing She grreued she grieued then for her vnkinde denying ij Oft sighing oft sighing ij sore and with a hart vnfay-ned I dye I dye I dye I dye ij I dye I dye I dye she thus complayned Whom when Amintas spyed then both for ioy out cryed I loue I loue sweet Cloris eye ij And I A min tas till I dye X. HAppy streames whose trembling fall ij with still murmure soft ly gly ding Happy Birds whose chirping call ij with sweet melody delight ing Hath mou'd her flin-tie and relentlesse hart and re lentlesse hart to li sten to your harmo ny in chan ted with ij your melody inchan ted with your me lody Sing on and carroll forth your glee sing on ij She graunts you leaue her rayes to see her rayes to see She graunts you leaue her rayes to see ij Happy were I were I But aye alas my loue doth still despight her But aye alas alas my loue doth still despight her Aye a las my loue doth still de spight her XI CHange me O heauens change me change me ò heauens change me ò heauens in-to the Ru-by stone That on my Loue fair locks doth hang in gold that on my Loues fair locks doth hang ij doth hang in gold Yet leaue me speech to her to make my moan ij make my moan to make my moan my moan yet leaue me speach to her to make my moan ij ij ij And giue me eies her beauties to behold giue me eies giue me eies her beauties to behold ij to behold or if you wil not make ij my flesh a stone ij ij or make her hard hart seem flesh make her hard hart seem flesh
my shrikes cryes that fill the aire with noise of these my shrikes that fill the ayre with noise of these my shrikes that fill the ayre heares not my prayer That I alas ij alas misfortunes son heyre Hope in none other hope but in dispaire O vnkind and cruell O vnkind ij O vn kind cruell ij if thus my death may please thee Then dye I will to ease thee to ease thee yet if I dye the world will thee controule and write vpon my tombe O sweet depar ture loe here lyes one ij ij Alas poore soule a true loues Martyr a true loues Mar tyr FINIS SEXTVS THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Voyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609. LONDON Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour wants the Fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBIE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coridon thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS XXVII SEXTVS O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life ij O Which naught enioyes but cares and end lesse trou ble What pleasure here but breeds a world of griefe what plea sure here but breeds a world of griefe ij What howers ease that anguish doth not dou ble that anguish doth not double No earthly ioyes but haue their discontents but haue their discontents ij ij Then loath that life which causeth such laments then loath that life which causeth such laments XXVIII First part WHere most my thought there least my eye is striking is striking where most my thought there least my eye is stri king ij Where least I come there most my hart abi deth ij Where most I loue I neuer shew my liking my liking From what my minde doth hold my body slydeth my body sly deth I carelesse seeme where most my care de pendeth I carelesse seeme where most my care dependeth where most my care de pen deth A coy regard where most my soule attendeth ij where most my soule attendeth atten deth XXIX Second part DIspightfull thus vnto my selfe vnto my selfe I languish And in dis daine ij my selfe from ioy I ba nish These se-cret thoughts inwraps me in wraps me so in an guish That life I hope wil soone from body vanish And to some rest will quickly be conuayed ij and to some rest will quick ly be conuayed That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stay ed. while so I liu'd hath stayed And to some rest will quickly be conuay ed ij and to some rest will quickly be con-uay ed ij will quickly be conuayed That on no ioy while so I liu'd hath stay ed. XXX AH cannot sighs nor teares nor ought else moue thee To pit ty me to pit ty me ij Who more then life doe loue thee O O O cruell fates See now away shee 's flying ij And flye shee will alas and leaue me dying and leaue me dying alas alas Farewell farewell farewell most faire farewell yet more disdainefull Was neuer griefe was neuer griefe like mine nor death more paine-full O O O cruell fates O O cru ell fates See now away shee 's flying away shee 's flying And flye she will ij alas and leaue me dying Farewell farewell most fayre farewell yet more disdainefull Was ne-uer griefe like mine nor death more painefull XXXI DRaw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares ij ij That doe a-rise from painful melancho ly My life so ill through want of comfort fares That vnto thee ij I consecrate it wholy that vnto thee to thee I consecrate it wholy Sweet night draw on ij sweet night draw on draw on sweet night draw on ij ij my griefs whē they be told To shades darknes find some ease frō pai ning ij And while thou all in silence dost en fold in si-lence dost enfold ij ij I thē shal haue best time for my complaining ij I thē shal haue
best time for my cōplaining ij XXXII STAY Coridon thou swaine talke not so soone of dying Stay Coridon thou swaine talke not so soone of dying What though thy hart ij be slaine be slaine What though thy loue be flying She threatens thee but dares not strike ij She threatens thee but dares not strike but dares not strike Thy Nimph is light is light and shadow like Thy Nymph is light and shadow like ij For if thou follow her For if thou follow her Shee le flye from thee ij But if thou flye from her shee le follow thee shee le follow thee ij ij For if thou follow her For if thou follow her shee le flye from thee from thee But if thou flye from her shee le fol low thee ij shee le follow thee shee le follow thee XXXIII SOft-ly O softly drop my eyes least you be dry And make my hart with griefe to melt and dye Now powre out teares apace apace Now powre out teares apace ij ij Now stay O heauy case O sowre sweet woe alas alas O griefe O ioy why striue you so Can paynes and ioyes and ioyes and ioyes at once in one poore hart consent Then sigh and sing reioyce Then sigh and sing Aye me ij ij ij O passions strange and violent was neuer wretch so sore tormented Nor ioy nor griefe can make my hart contented can make my hart contented for while with ioy I looke on hye ij Downe downe I fall I looke on hye Downe downe I fall ij ij ij ij with griefe and dye ij XXXIIII LOng haue I made these hils and vallies weary ij With noyse of these my shrikes ij and cryes that fill the ayre Shee onely who should make me mery heares not my prayer That I alas ij mis-for tunes sonne and heyre ij that I a-las misfortunes sonne and heyre Hope in none other hope but in dispaire O vn kinde O vn kinde vnkinde and cruell O vnkinde and cruell if thus my death may please thee Then dye I will to ease thee ij then dye I will to ease thee Yet if I dye the world will thee controule and write vpon my tombe O sweet departure loe here lyes one ij ij ij Alas poore soule a true loues Martyr ij ij a true loues Martyr FINIS BASSVS THE SECOND SET OF MADRIGALES TO 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts apt both for Voyals and Voyces Newly Composed BY IOHN WILBYE 1609. LONDON Printed by Tho. Este alias Snodham for Iohn Browne and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyard in Fleetstreet TO THE MOST NOBLE and Vertuous Lady the Lady Arbella Stuart Madame THE deepe vnderstanding you haue in all the Arts and perticular excellency in this of Musicke doth by a certaine kinde of right challenge the Dedication of the better sort of Labours in that Facultie especially in these times when Musicke sits solitary among her sister Sciences and but for your Honour often wants the fortune to be esteemed for so shee is worthy euen among the worthyest But besides that generall right my true and zealous deuotion long since desirous to expresse it selfe in any humble dutie to your Honour and borne vp by the daily experience of your most Noble and singular disposition hath neuer thought vpon other Patron for this work then your Honour whose neuer-failing Iudgement in the depth of Musicke I do wish might be pleased with some of these which happinesse if they attaine I know not what iudgement can avow to mislike them Howsoeuer they behaue themselues I humbly beseech your Honour to beleeue this truth that they are the sincere oblations of a heart euer prepared for your seruice And so with all humble and due reuerence done to your Honour I beseech the Almighty to make you in all the passages of your life truely happy as you are in the worlds true opinion vertuous Your Honours most humbly deuoted and obliged IOHN WILBYE THE TABLE Songs to 3. Uoyces COme shepheard Swaynes that wont to heare me sing I Flourish yee hillockes set with fragrant flowers II Ah cruell Amarillis since thou takst delight III So light is Loue in matchlesse beautie shining IIII As fayre as Morne as fresh as May. V O what shall I doe or whither shall I turne me VI I liue and yet me thinks I doe not breath VII There is a Iewell which no Indian Mines can buy Risposta VIII Songs to 4. Uoyces WHen Cloris heard of her Amintas dying IX Happy streames whose trembling fall X Change me O heauens into the Ruby stone XI Loue not me for comely grace XII Fly not so swift my Deere XIII I loue alas yet am not loued XIIII As matchlesse beauty thee a Phoenix proues XV Happy oh happy he who not affecting XVI Songs to 5. Uoyces SWeet hony sucking Bees First Part. XVII Yet sweet take heed all sweets are hard to get Second part XVIII All pleasure is of this condition XIX Oft haue I vowde how deerly I did loue thee XX Downe in a valley as Alexis trips First Part. XXI Hard Destinies are Loue and Beautie parted Second Part. XXII Weepe O mine eyes my heart can take no rest XXIII There where I saw her louely beautie painted XXIIII Yee that doe liue in pleasures plenty XXV A silly Siluan kissing heauen-borne fire XXVI Songs to 6. Uoyces O Wretched man why lou'st thou earthly life XXVII Where most my thought First Part. XXVIII Dispightfull thus vnto my selfe I languish Second Part. XXIX Ah cannot sighes nor teares XXX Draw on sweet night best friend vnto those cares XXXI Stay Coridon thou Swaine XXXII Softly O softly drop mine eyes XXXIII Long haue I made these hils and vallies weary XXXIIII FINIS I. COme shepheard swaynes that wont to heare me sing Now sigh and groan Dead is my loue my hope my ioy my spring ij dead dead and gone O she that was your Summers Queene your dayes delight is gone and will no more be seene O cruell spight Breake all your Pipes that wont to sound ij with plea sant cheere And cast your selues vpon the ground to waile my deere Come shepheard swaynes Come Nimphs and all a roe Come Nymphs and all a roe ij to help me cry Dead is my loue dead is my loue ij And seeing she is so loe now I die II. FLourish ye hillockes set with fragrant flowers ij So graced with her deity whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers whose eyes bedew you with their pearled showers bewayling loues impiety Happy yee are be prodigall disposed disdaine not loues lamenting Let me but kisse those steps where she repo sed to ease my harts tormenting ij then while she flyes me ij here I lye and languish sounding my sorrowes ij ij tun'd in notes of an guish tun'd in notes ij ij ij of anguish III. AH cruell Amarillis ij since thou takst delight to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie to heare the accents of a dolefull dittie To triumph ij ij ij still with out re morse