14.Ayres in tabletorie to the lute expressed with two voyces and the base violl or the voice & lute only. 6.more to 4.voyces and in tabletorie. And 8.madrigalles to 5.voyces By Michaell Cavendish Gentleman

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Title: 14.Ayres in tabletorie to the lute expressed with two voyces and the base violl or the voice & lute only. 6.more to 4.voyces and in tabletorie. And 8.madrigalles to 5.voyces By Michaell Cavendish Gentleman
Author: Cavendish, Michael, ca. 1565-1628.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Peter Short, on bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre,; 1598.
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Subject terms: Songs, English -- 16th century.; Part-songs, English -- Early works to 1800.; Madrigals -- Early works to 1800.; Madrigals, English -- Early works to 1800.
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This is the ditty of the ninth song.

CVrst be the time when first mine eies beheld
Those rare perfections all mens thoughts admire,
And iustly may a shepherds swaine bewaile
Those fatall howres which caus'd him first desire;
Loues sweet consent that makes so deepe impression,
As hart and soule will witnesse in confession.

Why should these eies borne traitors to my rest,
Command my thoughts to yeeld to this presumption,
To loue a nimph whose beauty all surpassing,
In all mens thoughts breeds still a strange confusion;
Heauens forbid that I should dare to moue,
A face that gods solicite still in loue.

Phillis sweet Phillis the shepheards only Queene,
Skornes to admit a swaine into her loue,
He pipes and sings and pleades to her for grace,
His sons and Sonnets her can nothing moue:
He sighes and vowes and praies with true deuotion,
But vowes and prayers worke in her no motion.

Then Coridon must yeeld to this his curse,
Sith that his loue cannot her loue importune,
For feare dispaires conuert this ill to worse,
And by disgrace adde more plagues to fortune,
Poore man sit down powre out thy plaints amaine,
Phillis thee skornes and holds in high disdaine.

FINIS.