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But beauty being pittilesse and sterne,
Cruell in deede, though milde in outward show:
Will neither hopes, or my dispaires discerne,
But leades me to a hell of endlesse woe.
Private musicke. Or the First booke of ayres and dialogues contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts, of seuerall sorts, and being verse and chorus, is fit for voyces and viols. And for want of viols, they may be performed to either the virginall or lute, where the proficient can play vpon the ground, or for a shift to the base viol alone. All made and composed according to the rules of art. By M.P. Batchelar of Musicke.
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- Private musicke. Or the First booke of ayres and dialogues contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts, of seuerall sorts, and being verse and chorus, is fit for voyces and viols. And for want of viols, they may be performed to either the virginall or lute, where the proficient can play vpon the ground, or for a shift to the base viol alone. All made and composed according to the rules of art. By M.P. Batchelar of Musicke.
- Author
- Peerson, Martin, 1571?-1651.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Thomas Snodham,
- 1620.
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- Part-songs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Private musicke. Or the First booke of ayres and dialogues contayning songs of 4. 5. and 6. parts, of seuerall sorts, and being verse and chorus, is fit for voyces and viols. And for want of viols, they may be performed to either the virginall or lute, where the proficient can play vpon the ground, or for a shift to the base viol alone. All made and composed according to the rules of art. By M.P. Batchelar of Musicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09241.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.