A musicall dreame. Or The fourth booke of ayres the first part is for the lute, two voyces, and the viole de gambo; the second part is for the lute, the viole and foure voices to sing: the third part is for one voyce alone, or to the lute, the basse viole, or to both if you please, vvhereof, two are Italian ayres. Composed by Robert Iones.

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Title: A musicall dreame. Or The fourth booke of ayres the first part is for the lute, two voyces, and the viole de gambo; the second part is for the lute, the viole and foure voices to sing: the third part is for one voyce alone, or to the lute, the basse viole, or to both if you please, vvhereof, two are Italian ayres. Composed by Robert Iones.
Author: Jones, Robert, fl. 1597-1615.
Publication: London :: Imprinted by Iohn Windet, and are to be solde by Simon Waterson, in Powles Church-yeard, at the signe of :he [sic] Crowne,; 1609.
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Subject terms: Part-songs, English -- Early works to 1800.; Songs with lute -- Early works to 1800.; Songs with instrumental ensemble -- Early works to 1800.; Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "A musicall dreame. Or The fourth booke of ayres the first part is for the lute, two voyces, and the viole de gambo; the second part is for the lute, the viole and foure voices to sing: the third part is for one voyce alone, or to the lute, the basse viole, or to both if you please, vvhereof, two are Italian ayres. Composed by Robert Iones." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04616.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.

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Those eyes two pointed Diamonds did engraue,VVithin my heart the true and liuely forme,Of that sweet Saint whose pitty most I craue,VVhose absence makes me comfortlesse to mourne,And sighing say (Sweet) would she knew my loue,My plaints perhaps her mind may somewhat moue.

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But if she knew, what if she did reiect,Yet better twere by her sweet doome to die,That she might know my deare loues true effect,Then thus to liue in vnknowne misery,Yet after death it may be she would say,His too much loue did worke his liues decay.