Tvvo bookes of ayres The first contayning diuine and morall songs: the second, light conceites of louers. To be sung to the lute and viols, in two, three, and foure parts: or by one voyce to an instrument. Composed by Thomas Campian.

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Tvvo bookes of ayres The first contayning diuine and morall songs: the second, light conceites of louers. To be sung to the lute and viols, in two, three, and foure parts: or by one voyce to an instrument. Composed by Thomas Campian.
Author
Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Snodham, for Mathew Lownes, and I. Browne Cum priuilegio,
[1613?]
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Songs with lute.
Part-songs, English.
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CANTVS. XV.

〈♫〉〈♫〉 SO many loues haue I neg- le- cted, whose good parts might moue mee: That now I liue of all re- je- cted, there is none will loue mee. 〈♫〉〈♫〉 〈♫〉〈♫〉 Why is mayden heate so coy? it freezeth when it bur- neth; Looseth what it might in- ioy, and hauing lost it mour- neth. 〈♫〉〈♫〉
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So many loues haue I neglected, Whose good parts might moue mee; That now I liue of all rejected, There is none will loue me▪ Why is mayden heate so coy? It freezeth when it burneth; Looseth what it might inioy, And hauing lost it mourneth.
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Should I then wooe that haue beene wooed, Seeking them that flye mee? When I my faith with teares haue vowed, And when all denye mee, Who will pitty my disgrace, Which loue might haue preuented? There is no submissio ase Where error is repented.
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O happy men whose hopes are licenc'd To discourse their passion: While women are confin'd to silence, Loosing wisht occasion. Yet our tongues then theirs, men say, Are apter to be mouing: Women are more dumbe then they, But in their thoughts more mouing.
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When I compare my former strangenesse With my present doting, I pitty men that speake in plainenesse, Their true hearts deuoting, While wee with repentance lest At their submissiue passion: Maydes I see are neuer blest That strange be but for fashion.

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ALTVS.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 THough your strangenesse frets my hart, Yet may not I complaine: If another you affect, You per- swade mee 'tis but Art That se-cret loue must faine. 〈♫〉〈♫〉 'Tis but a shew t' auoid suspect. Is this faire excusing? O no, all is a- busing.
BASSVS.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 THough your strangenesse You per- swade me 〈♫〉〈♫〉 frets my hart, Yet may not I complaine: 'tis but Art That se-cret loue must faine. 〈♫〉〈♫〉 If another you affect, 'Tis but a shew 〈♫〉〈♫〉 t'auoid suspect, Is this faire excusing? O 〈♫〉〈♫〉 no, all is abusing.
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