The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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London :: Printed by J. Playford for Henry Playford and R.C. ...,
1685-1687.
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Subject terms
Songs, English -- England.
Songs with continuo.
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"The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54969.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 17
〈♫〉〈♫〉LOng have I liv'd from Pas—sion free, of Love the charming
De—i—ty; 'till conqu'ring Beau—ty, Oh hard Fate! hath made me yield to a
restless State: With wan-de-ring Thoughts my Heart's opprest, Day brings no Comfort,
Night no Rest.
II.
The silent Swans on murm'ring StreamsLive free and easie without pains;When by each side they gently move,Live Hearts united with true Love:But I a wretched Soul must be,Depriv'd of her I fain would see.
III.
Go, restless Thoughts! tell her, that I,Being absent from her, now must dye;I strove this Passion to remove,But the more I endeavour'd, more I lov'd:When she appears, too true she'l find,Beauty hath charm'd my Reason, Love my Mind.
Mr. Robert King.
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