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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Title: 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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Subject terms: Part-songs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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III. (Book 3)

CANTVS.

〈♫〉〈♫〉AH were she pit-tifull, as she is faire, Or but so 〈♫〉〈♫〉 milde as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater then my dispaire, Then all the〈♫〉〈♫〉 world were heauen, and nothing woe.〈♫〉〈♫〉

Bassus.

〈♫〉〈♫〉 Then all the〈♫〉〈♫〉 world were heauen, and nothing woe.

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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.

Contra-Tenor.

Ah were she pittifull:〈♫〉〈♫〉 Then all the world were heauen, & nothing woe.

TENOR.

Ah were she pittifull:〈♫〉〈♫〉 Then all the world were heauen, and no- thing woe.