〈♫〉〈♫〉 WHen first my Shep—her—dess and I, en—joy'd with mutual Love; she wou'd a thousand Deaths to dye, before she false wou'd prove: Then in a coo—ing Tone she cry'd, My Damon, still prove true! May Damon dye, I soon reply'd, when e're he loves not you.
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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- 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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II.
But oh! too soon Myrtilla came,
By chance into the Plain;
Aminta then was not the same,
For all her Vows were vain:
Yet with fresh Charms she did renew
The Vows, my Eyes to blind;
I wish'd, but cou'd not think them true,
She being of Womankind.