Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene.

THE XXXIV. SONG. (Book 34)

〈♫〉〈♫〉 IOy to the person of my love, Although she me disdain: Fixt are my thoghts, & may not move, But yet I love in vain. 〈♫〉〈♫〉 Shal I loose the sight Of my joy & hearts delight? Or shal I leave my sute? Shal I strive to touch? Oh! no, it were too much; She is the forbidden fruit. 〈♫〉〈♫〉 Oh! wo is me, that ever I did see, The beauty that did me bewitch: Yet out, alace! I must forgo that face, The treasor I esteem'd so much.

O! shal I range into some dale▪ Or to the mountains mourn? Sad echoes shal resound my tale: Or whether shal I turn? Shal I buy that love, No life to me will give, But deeply wounds my heart▪ If I flee away, She will not to me say, stay, My sorrows to convert. O no, no, no, she will not once say so; But comfortless I must be gone: Yet though she be so thrawart unto me. I'le love her, or I shal love none.

O! that I might but understand The reasons of her hate, To him would be at her command, In love, in life, in state: Then should I no more In heart be griev'd so fore, Nor sad with discontent. But since that I have lov'd A Maid that so hath prov'd Unworthy, I do repent. Something unkind hath setled in her mind, That caused her to leave me so. Sweet, seem to me but half so kind to be, Or let me the occasion know.

Thousand fortuns fall to her share, Though she rejected me, And fill'd my heart full of dispa••••, Yet shal I constant be. For she is the Dune My tongue shal 〈◊〉〈◊〉 name, Fair branch of modestie, Chaste of heart and mind. Oh! were she half to kind, Then would she pity me. Sweet, turn at last, be hind as thou art chaste, And let me in thy bosom dwel; So shal we gain the pleasure of loves pain: Till then, my dearest Love, Farewell.

FINIS.