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Ayres: by Alfonso Ferrabosco
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Ferrabosco, Alfonso, ca. 1575-1628.
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1609
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affections moue Doe not with weeping those lights blinde Which me in thy subiection binde Time that hath made vs two of one And forst thee now to liue alone Will once againe vs revnite To shew how shee can Fortune spight Then will we our time redeeme And hould our howres in more esteeme Turning all our sweetest nights Into millions of delights And striue with many thousand kisses To multiply to multiply exchange of blisses exchange of blisses X. I Am a louer yet was neuer lou'd well haue I lou'd and wil though hated euer Troubles I passe yet neuer any mou'd sighs haue I giuen and yet she heard me neuer I would complaine and she would neuer heare me and flie from loue but it is euer neare me Obliuion onely blamelesse doth beset mee for that remembreth neuer to forget me XI WHy stayes the bridegroome to in╌uade her that would be a matron made Good night whilst yet we may good night to you a virgin say To morrow rise the same your mother is and vse a nobler name Speed well in hymens war that what you are by your perfections wee and all may see First part XII SIng wee then heroyque grace So with louely light adorning that faire heauen of his face As the Starre that leads the morning body braue for part and whole purest seate of purer soule Where reposed lodge by nature Princely strength and comely stature Second part XIII SIng the riches of his skill Long by studious toyle prouided Wit that neuer guideth ill Will that neuer ill is guided Iudgemēt that can best discerne Memory that needs not learne Courage where such thoughts assemble Iustly may his haters tremble Third part XIIII SIng the nobles of his race Sing his power his wealth his glory Breaking all the bounds of place endlesse ages agelesse storry Peace that maketh one of two more then euer warre could doe Terror chased terror chased Iustice fixed Mercy mercy still with Iustice mixed XV. WIth what new thoughts should I now entertaine my minde if I my sadnesse should forgoe What pleasing hopes haue I not proued I not proued vaine or what false shew of ioy doe I not know O partiall loue there is no power in thee to make her loue or else to set me free to make her loue or else to set me free XVI FLy from the world O flye thou poore distrest where thy diseased soule infects thy soule And where thy thoughts doe multiply vnrest Tiring with wishes what they straight controule O world O world betrayer of the minde O thoughts O thoughts that guide vs being blinde O thoughts that guide vs being blinde that guide vs being blinde 2 Come therefore care conduct me to my end And steere this shipwrackt carkasse to the graue My sighes a strange and stedfast winde shall lend Teares wet the sailes Repentance from rocks saue Haile death haile death the land I doe discry Strike saile goe soule rest followes them that dye XVII SHall I seeke to ease my griefe No my sight is lost with eying Shall I speak and beg reliefe No my voyce is hoarse with crying What remaines but onely dying What remaynes but onely dying 2 Loue and I of late did part But the Boy my peace enuying Like a Parthian threw his dart Backward and did wound me flying What remaines but onely dying 3 She whom then I looked one My remembrance beautifying Stayes with me though I am gone Gone and at her mercy lying What remaynes but onely dying 4 Thus my vitall breath doth wast And my blood with sorrow drying Sighes and teares make life to last For a while his place supplying What remaynes but onely dying First part XVIII IF all these Cupids now were blinde as is their wanton brother Or play should put it in their mindes to shoot at one another What prety battaile they would make if they their obiects should mistake and each one wound and each one wound his mother Second part XIX IT was no pollicie of court although the place be charmed To let in earnest or in sport so many loues in armed For say the dames should with their eyes vpon the hearts here meane surprise Were not the men were not the men were not the men like harmed Third part XX. YEs were the loues or false or straying or beautie not their beautie waying But here no such deceipt is mixt their flames are pure their eyes are fixt They doe not warre they doe not warre with diffrent darts but strike a musicke of like hearts they doe not warre with diffrent darts but strike a musicke of like hearts XXI SO beautie on the waters stood when Loue had seuer'd earth from floud So when hee parted ayre from fire hee did with concord all inspire And then a motion hee them taught that elder then himselfe was thought which thought was yet the childe of earth for loue is elder then his birth XXII HAd those that dwell in error foule and hold that women haue no soule But seene those moue they would haue then said women were the soules of men so they doe moue each heart and eye with the worlds soule their harmonie XXIII IF all the ages of the earth were crown'd but in this famous birth but in this famous birth and when that they would boast their store of worthy Queenes of worthy Queenes they knew no more how happier is that age can giue a Queene in whom they all doe liue XXIIII VNconstant loue why should I make my moane or send sad sighes vnto thy carelesse eare Since thy affection and thy faith is gone and all those vertues which I once held deare Farewell farewell most false of all to mee that with affection deerely deerely loued thee XXV O Eyes O mortall starres the authors of my harmes that in slumbring wage wars to kill me with sweet charmes If closed you annoy me be'ng open you 'ld destroy me If closed you annoy me be'ng open you 'ld destroy me If closed you annoy me be'ng open you 'ld destroy me If closed you annoy me be'ng open you 'ld destroy mee A Dialogue betweene a Shepheard and a Nimph. XXVI FAyre cruell Nimph why thus in griefe anguish Mak'st thou him thatadores thee pine and languish O but these fancies from thy beautie flow O how I ioy O how I ioy in thee my happy choise As thou in me as thou in me so I in thee reioyce Then let vs still together liue and loue and sing the ioyes the ioyes and sing the ioyes that happy louers proue Dialogue Nimph. XXVI WHy Shepheard dost thou mee condemne as cruell Since thine owne fancies are thy passions fuell Then shall reliefe to thee from bountie grow O how I Ioy O how I Ioy in this my happy choise As thou in me As thou in me so I in thee reioyce Then let vs still together liue and loue And sing the ioyes and sing the ioyes that happy louers proue A Dialogue XXVII WHat shall I wish what shall I flye False I defie Such euer speake Such neuer breake Flattery yeelds pleasure Onely truth onely truth yeelds waight Happy are they that neuer knew deceit Happy are they that neuer knew deceit neuer knew deceit A Dialogue XXVII TRue Loue I seeke Wordes haue their truth Deeds haue their faith Flattery yeelds pleasure Happy are they that neuer knew deceit happy are they happy are they that neuer knew deceit A Dialogue betweene a Shepheard and a Nimph. XXVIII TEll me O Loue when shall it be that thy faire eyes shall shine on me Whom nothing now reuiueth Alas sweet Nymph I cannot chuse since thou estranged liues from me Alas what ioy is in such loue that euer liues apart O let me die yet stay sweet Loue ☞ Dialogue Nimph. XXVIII I Pray thee Shepheard I pray thee shepheard leaue thy feares Drowne not thy heart and eyes with teares Such sighes my sence depriueth O doe not me for that accuse My Loue my life doth liue in thee Alas what ioy is in such loue and neuer other comforts proue but cares that kill the hart And so will I yet stay sweet Loue and sing this song with me Time brings to passe what loue thinkes could not be Time brings to passe what loue thinkes could not be ☞ and sing this song with me time bring to passe what loue thinks could not be time brings to passe what loue thinks could not be FINIS A Table of all the Songs contained in this Booke I. Like Hermit poore  II. Come home my troubled thoughts  III. Come away  IIII. Deere when to thee  V. Faine I would  VI. Come my Celia  VII So so leaue off  VIII Young and simple though I am  IX Drowne not with teares  X. I am a Louer  XI Why stayes the Bridegroome  XII Sing we then heroyque grace 1. Part. XIII Sing the riches of his skill 2. Part. XIIII Sing the Nobles of his race 3. Part. XV. With what now thoughts  XVI Flye from the world  XVII Shall I seeke to ease my griefe  XVIII If all these Cupids now were blinde 1. Part. XIX It was no pollicie of Court 2. Part. XX. Yes were the loues 3. Part. XXI So beautie on the waters stood  XXII Had those that dwell  XXIII If all the ages of the earth  XXIIII Vnconstant Loue.  XXV O eyes O mortall starres  XXVI Faire cruell Nymph Dialogue XXVII What shall I wish Dialogue XXVIII Tell me O Loue. Dialogue
AYRES BY Alfonso Ferrabosco LONDON Printed by T. SNODHAM for IOHN BROVVNE and are to be sould at his shoppe in S. Dunstones Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1609. TO THE MOST EQVALL TO HIS BIRTH AND ABOVE all Titles but his owne Vertue Heroique Prince Henry Excellent Prince THat which was wont to accompany all Sacrifices is now become a Sacrifice MVSIQVE And to a Composition so full of Harmony as yours what could bee a fitter Offring The rather since they are the Offerers first fruits and that he giues them with pure hands J could now with that solemne industry of many in Epistles enforce all that hath beene said in praise of the Faculty and make that commend the worke but J desire more the worke should commend the Faculty And therefore suffer these few Ayres to owe their Grace rather to your Highnesse iudgement then any others testimonie J am not made of much speach Onely J know them worthy of my Name And therein J tooke paynes to make them worthy of Yours Your Highnesse most humble Seruant Alfonso Ferrabosco TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND ALFONSO FERRABOSCO TO vrge my lou'd Alfonso that bold fame Of building Townes and making wilde Beasts tame Which Musique had or speake her knowne effects That she remoueth cares sadnesse eiects Declineth anger perswades clemency Doth sweeten mirth and heighten pietie And is to'a body often ill inclinde No lesse a soueraigne cure then to the minde To'alledge that greatest men were not asham'd Of old euen by her practise to be fam'd To say indeed she were the Soule of Heauen That the eight Spheare no lesse then Planets seauen Mou'd by her order And the ninth more high Including all were thence call'd Harmony I yet had vtter'd nothing on thy part When these were but the praises of the Art But when I haue saide The proofes of all these be Shed in thy Songs T is true But short of thee Ben Ionson TO THE WORTHY AVTHOR MVsicks maister and the offspring Of rich Musicks Father Old Alfonso's Image liuing These faire flowers you gather Scatter through the Brittish soile Giue thy fame free wing And gaine the merit of thy toyle Wee whose loues affect to praise thee Beyond thine owne deserts can neuer raise thee By T. Campion Doctor in Physicke AMICISS ET PRAESTANTISSIMO IN RE MVSICA ALFONSO FERRABOSCO PErcellis oro mitte animam meam O diue Syren vinculaque auribus Iniecta soluas nec potenti Perpetuo moriar camaenâ Ardore rapta mens furit entheo Scanditque Lunam circuit aethera Ter millies coelo reposta Et totiès relocata terris O Musicae artis quanta potentia Ferra-bosco Non in ferarum solavagum nemus Sed in virorum plus cateruas Participes melioris aurae Alsonse dux rex Lyrici gregis Pulsare dignus coelicolum lyram Excellis omnes sic canendo Sempèr vt ipse sies canendus N. Tomkins I. LIke Hermit poore in place obscure I meane to spend my dayes of endlesse doubt To waile such woes as time cannot recure Where none but Loue shall finde mee out And at my gates dispaire shall dispaire shal linger still To let in death whēloue fortune when Loue and Fortune will II. COme home my troubled thoughts stay and retire Call home your erring fellowes make a stand Follow not still the coulours of desire False are her wishes cruel her command Come then obay this summons come away come away For here vaine hopes for here vaine hopes must serue you for your pay III COme away come away we grow ielous of your stay If you doe not stoppe your eare We shall haue more cause to feare Sirens of the land then they to doubt the Sirens of the Sea IIII. DEere when to thee my sad complaint I make And shew how oft Loue doth my death renue And how afresh I suffer for thy sake I euer feare this answere to insue Who would bewaile the Bird that scapes the snare And euer caught and neuer can beware But my reply is iust that if the eye That sees the danger yet obayes the hart That leades the sence for his delight to dye In that this pray preferres the better part The gayner should haue mercy to forgiue If Beautie be a Tyrant who can liue V. FAine I would but O I dare not Speake my thoughts at full to praise her Speake the best cryes Loue and spare not Thy speech can no higher raise her Thy speach then thy thoughts are lower Yet thy thoughts doth not halfe know her VI. COme my Celia let vs proue while wee may the sweets of loue Time wil not be ours for euer he at length our good wil seuer Spend not then his gifts in vaine Sunnes that set may rise again But if we once loose this light t is with vs perpetuall night Why should wee deferre our ioyes fame and rumour are but toyes Cannot we delude the eyes of a few poore houshold spyes Or his easier eares beguile Thus remoued by our wile T' is no sinne loues fruits to steale But the sweet theft to reueale To be taken to be seene These haue crimes accounted been to be taken to be seene These haue crimes accounted beene VII SO so leaue off this last lamenting kisse which sucks two soules and vapours both away Turne thou ghost that way And let me turne this and let our selues be-night our happy day we aske none leaue to loue nor will we owe any so cheape a death as saying goe We aske none leaue to loue nor wil we owe any so cheape a death as saying goe Goe goe and if that word haue not quite kild thee Ease me with death by bidding me goe to O if it haue let my word worke on me And a iust office on a murderer doe Except it be too late to kill me so Being double dead going and bidding goe VIII YOung and simple though I am I haue heard of Cupids name Guesse I can what thing it is Men desire when they doe kisse Smoake can neuer burne they say But the flames But the flames that follow may 2 I am not so foule or faire to be proud or to dispaire Yet my lips haue oft obseru'd men that kisse them presse them hard As glad louers vse to doe when their new met loues they wooe 3 Faith t is but a foolish minde yet me thinkes a heat I finde Like thirst longing that doth bide euer one my weaker side Where they say my hart doth moue Venus graunt it be not Loue. 4 If it be alas what then were not Women made for Men As good t is a thing were past that must needes bee done at last Roses that are ouer-blowne grow lesse sweet then fall alone 5 Yet nor Churle nor silken Gull shall my maiden blossome pull Who shall not I soone can tell who shall would I could as well This I know who ere hee be loue hee must or flatter mee IX DRowne not with teares my deerest Loue Those eyes which my