The third and fourth booke of ayres: composed by Thomas Campian. So as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion

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The third and fourth booke of ayres: composed by Thomas Campian. So as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion
Author
Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Snodham. Cum priuilegio,
[1617?]
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Songs, English.
Songs with lute.
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"The third and fourth booke of ayres: composed by Thomas Campian. So as they may be expressed by one voyce, with a violl, lute, or orpharion." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17882.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.

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〈♫〉〈♫〉 HEr fayre inflaming eyes, chiefe authors of my cares, 〈♫〉〈♫〉 〈♫〉〈♫〉 I prai'd in humblest wife, With grace to view my teares: They be-held me broad a-wake, But a- 〈♫〉〈♫〉 〈♫〉〈♫〉 lasse no ruth would take. 〈♫〉〈♫〉

BASSVS.

〈♫〉〈♫〉 〈♫〉〈♫〉
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Her lips with kisses rich, And words of fayre delight, I fayrely did beseech To pitty my sad plight: But a voyce from them brake forth As a whirle-winde from the North.
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Then to her hands I fled, That can giue heart and all, To them I long did plead, And loud for pitty call: But alas they put mee off, With a touch worse then a scoffe.
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So backe I straight return'd, And at her breast I knock'd; Where long in vaine I mourn'd, Her heart so fast was lock'd; Not a word could passage finde, For a Rocke inclos'd her minde.
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Then downe my pray'rs made way To those most comely parts, That make her flye or stay, As they affect deserts: But her angry feete thus mou'd Fled with all the parts I lou'd.
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Yet fled they not so fast As her enraged minde: Still did I after haste, Still was I left behinde, Till I found 'twas to no end With a Spirit to contend.
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