INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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A little pretty bonny lass was walking (Farmer) 1
A shepherd in a shade his plaining made (John Dowland) 1
A sparrow-hawk proud did hold in wicked jail (Weelkes) 2
A woman’s looks (Jones) 3
About the maypole new, with glee and merriment (Morley) 4
Adieu! sweet Amaryllis (Wilbye) 5
April is in my mistress’ face (Morley) 5
Arise, my thoughts, and mount you with the sun (Jones) 5
Awake, awake! thou heavy sprite (Campion) 6
Awake, sweet Love! ’tis time to rise (Youll) 7
Ay me, can every rumour (Wilbye) 7
Ay me, my mistress scorns my love (Bateson) 8
Behold a wonder here (John Dowland) 8
Brown is my Love, but graceful (Musica Transalpina) 9
By a fountain where I lay (John Dowland) 9
By the moon we sport and play (Ravenscroft) 11
Canst thou love and lie alone (Melismata) 11
Change thy mind since she doth change (Robert Dowland) 12
Cold Winter’s ice is fled and gone (Weelkes) 13
Come away! come, sweet Love! (John Dowland) 14
Come, O come, my life’s delight (Campion) 15
Come, Phyllis, come into these bowers (Ford) 16
Come, shepherd swains, that wont to hear me sing (Wilbye) 16
Come, you pretty false-eyed wanton (Campion) 17
Could my heart more tongues employ (Campion) 18
Crownèd with flowers I saw fair Amaryllis (Byrd) 19
Dare you haunt our hallow’d green (Ravenscroft) 19
Dear, if I with guilt would gild a true intent (Campion) 20
Dear, if you change I’ll never choose again (John Dowland) 20
Do you not know how Love lost first his seeing (Morley) 21
Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares (Wilbye) 21
Each day of thine, sweet month of May (Youll) 22
Every dame affects good fame, whate’er her doings be (Campion) 22
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone (Farmer) 24
Farewell, false Love, the oracle of lies (Byrd) 24
Farewell, my joy! (Weelkes) 25
Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new (John Dowland) 26
Fire that must flame is with apt fuel fed (Campion) 27
Flora gave me fairest flowers (Wilbye) 27
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet (Campion and Rosseter) 28
Fond wanton youths make Love a God (Jones) 28
From Citheron the warlike boy is fled (Byrd) 30
From Fame’s desire, from Love’s delight retired (John Dowland) 31
Give Beauty all her right (Campion) 32
Go, crystal tears! like to the morning showers (John Dowland) 33
Go, turn away those cruel eyes (Egerton MS. 2013) 33
Good men, show! if you can tell (Campion) 34
Ha! ha! ha! this world doth pass (Weelkes) 36
Happy he (Jones) 36
Happy, O! happy he, who not affecting (Wilbye) 37
Have I found her? O rich finding (Pilkington) 38
Heigh ho! chill go to plough no more (Mundy) 38
How many things as yet (Maynard) 39
How shall I then describe my Love (Ford) 39
I always loved to call my lady Rose (Lichfild) 40
I have house and land in Kent (Melismata) 41
I joy not in no earthly bliss (Byrd) 43
I live and yet methinks I do not breathe (Wilbye) 44
I marriage would forswear (Maynard) 44
I only am the man (Maynard) 45
I saw my Lady weep (John Dowland) 46
I sung sometime my thoughts and fancy’s pleasure (Wilbye) 46
I weigh not Fortune’s frown nor smile (Gibbons) 47
I will no more come to thee (Morley) 48
If fathers knew but how to leave (Jones) 48
If I urge my kind desires (Campion and Rosseter) 49
If my complaints could passions move (John Dowland) 50
If thou long’st so much to learn, sweet boy, what ’tis to love (Campion) 51
If women could be fair and never fond (Byrd) 52
In crystal towers and turrets richly set (Byrd) 53
In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be (Coprario) 53
In midst of woods or pleasant grove (Mundy) 54
In pride of May (Weelkes) 55
In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood (Jones) 56
In the merry month of May (Este) 57
Inconstant Laura makes me death to crave (Greaves) 58
Injurious hours, whilst any joy doth bless me (Lichfild) 59
Is Love a boy,—what means he then to strike (Byrd) 59
It was the frog in the well (Melismata) 60
Jack and Joan they think no ill (Campion) 61
Kind are her answers (Campion) 62
Kind in unkindness, when will you relent (Campion and Rosseter) 63
Lady, the birds right fairly (Weelkes) 64
Lady, the melting crystal of your eye (Greaves) 64
Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting (Wilbye) 65
Let not Chloris think, because (Danyel) 66
Let not the sluggish sleep (Byrd) 67
Let us in a lovers’ round (Mason and Earsden) 67
Like two proud armies marching in the field (Weelkes) 68
Lo! country sport that seldom fades (Weelkes) 68
Lo! when back mine eye (Campion) 68
Long have I lived in Court (Maynard) 69
Love is a bable (Jones) 70
Love not me for comely grace (Wilbye) 71
Love’s god is a boy (Jones) 72
Love winged my hopes and taught me how to fly (Jones) 73
“Maids are simple,” some men say (Campion) 74
Maids to bed and cover coal (Melismata) 74
More than most fair, full of all heavenly fire (Peerson) 75
Mother, I will have a husband (Vautor) 75
My hope a counsel with my heart (Este) 76
My love bound me with a kiss (Jones) 77
My love is neither young nor old (Jones) 78
My mind to me a kingdom is (Byrd) 78
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares (Mundy) 80
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love (Campion) 80
My Thoughts are winged with Hopes, my Hopes with Love (John Dowland) 81
Never love unless you can (Campion) 82
Now each creature joys the other (Farmer) 83
Now every tree renews his summer’s green (Weelkes) 83
Now God be with old Simeon (Pammelia) 83
Now have I learn’d with much ado at last (Jones) 84
Now I see thy looks were feignèd (Ford) 85
Now is my Chloris fresh as May (Weelkes) 86
Now is the month of maying (Morley) 87
Now let her change! and spare not (Campion) 87
Now let us make a merry greeting (Weelkes) 88
Now what is love, I pray thee tell (Jones) 89
Now winter nights enlarge (Campion) 90
O say, dear life, when shall these twin-born berries (Ward) 91
O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting (Farmer) 91
O sweet, alas, what say you (Morley) 92
O sweet delight, O more than human bliss (Campion) 92
Oft have I mused the cause to find (Jones) 93
On a time the amorous Silvy (Attye) 94
Once did I love and yet I live (Jones) 95
Once I thought to die for love (Youll) 95
Our country swains in the morris dance (Weelkes) 96
Pierce did love fair Petronel (Farnaby) 96
Pour forth, mine eyes, the fountains of your tears (Pilkington) 97
Robin is a lovely lad (Mason and Earsden) 97
Round-a, round-a, keep your ring (Ravenscroft) 98
See, see, mine own sweet jewel (Morley) 98
Shall a frown or angry eye (Corkine) 99
Shall I abide this jesting (Alison) 99
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee (Campion) 100
Shall I look to ease my grief (Jones) 100
She whose matchless beauty staineth (Jones) 101
Shoot, false Love! I care not (Morley) 103
Silly boy! ’tis full moon yet, thy night as day shines clearly (Campion) 104
Simkin said that Sis was fair (Farnaby) 105
Since first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye (Ford) 105
Sing we and chant it (Morley) 106
Sister, awake! close not your eyes (Bateson) 107
Sleep, angry beauty, sleep and fear not me (Campion) 108
So light is love, in matchless beauty shining (Wilbye) 108
Some can flatter, some can feign (Corkine) 109
Sweet, come again (Campion and Rosseter) 110
Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire (Corkine) 111
Sweet heart, arise! why do you sleep (Weelkes) 112
Sweet Kate (Jones) 112
Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain a monarch’s glory (Wilbye) 113
Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee (Weelkes) 114
Sweet Love, my only treasure (Jones) 114
Sweet, stay awhile; why will you rise (John Dowland) 115
Sweet Suffolk owl so trimly dight (Vautor) 116
Take here my heart, I give it thee for ever (Weelkes) 116
Take time while time doth last (Farmer) 117
The fly she sat in shamble-row (Deuteromelia) 117
The Gods have heard my vows (Weelkes) 119
The lark, linnet and nightingale to sing some say are best (Pammelia) 120
The love of change hath changed the world throughout (Carlton) 120
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall (John Dowland) 121
The man of life upright (Campion and Rosseter) 121
The greedy hawk with sudden sight of lure (Byrd) 122
The match that’s made for just and true respects (Byrd) 123
The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay (Byrd) 124
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth (Bateson) 124
The peaceful western wind (Campion) 125
There is a garden in her face (Campion) 126
There is a lady sweet and kind (Ford) 127
There were three Ravens sat on a tree (Melismata) 128
Think’st thou, Kate, to put me down (Jones) 129
Think’st thou to seduce me then with words that have no meaning (Campion) 130
Thou art but young, thou say’st (Wilbye) 131
Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white (Campion and Rosseter) 131
Thou pretty bird, how do I see (Danyel) 132
Though Amaryllis dance in green (Byrd) 132
Though my carriage be but careless (Weelkes) 133
Though your strangeness frets my heart (Jones) 134
Thrice blessèd be the giver (Farnaby) 135
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air (Campion) 136
Thus I resolve and Time hath taught me so (Campion) 136
Thus saith my Chloris bright (Wilbye) 137
Thus saith my Galatea (Morley) 137
To his sweet lute Apollo sang the motions of the spheres (Campion) 138
To plead my faith, where faith hath no reward (Robert Dowland) 139
To shorten winter’s sadness (Weelkes) 139
Toss not my soul, O Love, ’twixt hope and fear (John Dowland) 140
Turn all thy thoughts to eyes (Campion) 141
Unto the temple of thy beauty (Ford) 141
Upon a hill the bonny boy (Weelkes) 142
Upon a summer’s day Love went to swim (Byrd) 143
Vain men! whose follies make a god of love (Campion) 143
Wake, sleepy Thyrsis, wake (Pilkington) 144
We be soldiers three (Deuteromelia) 145
We be three poor mariners (Deuteromelia) 146
We must not part as others do (Egerton MS. 2013) 146
We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play (Weelkes) 147
Wedded to will is witless (Byrd) 147
Weep no more, thou sorry boy (Tomkins) 148
Weep you no more, sad fountains (John Dowland) 149
Welcome, sweet pleasure (Weelkes) 149
Were I a king I might command content (Mundy) 151
Were my heart as some men’s are, thy errors would not move me (Campion) 151
What hap had I to marry a shrow (Pammelia) 152
What is our life? a play of passion (Gibbons) 152
What needeth all this travail and turmoiling (Wilbye) 153
What pleasure have great Princes (Byrd) 153
What poor astronomers are they (John Dowland) 155
What then is love, sings Corydon (Ford) 156
When Flora fair the pleasant tidings bringeth (Carlton) 157
When I was otherwise than now I am (Byrd) 157
When thou must home to shades of underground (Campion and Rosseter) 158
When younglings first on Cupid fix their sight (Byrd) 159
Where most my thoughts, there least mine eye is striking (Wilbye) 159
Where shall a sorrow great enough be sought (Peerson) 160
Whether men do laugh or weep (Campion and Rosseter) 161
While that the sun with his beams hot (Byrd) 162
Whilst youthful sports are lasting (Weelkes) 163
White as lilies was her face (John Dowland) 164
Whither so fast? see how the kindly flowers (Pilkington) 166
Who likes to love, let him take heed (Byrd) 167
Who made thee, Hob, forsake the plough (Byrd) 168
Who prostrate lies at women’s feet (Bateson) 168
Who would have thought that face of thine (Farmer) 169
Why are you Ladies staying (Weelkes) 169
Wilt thou, Unkind! thus ’reave me (John Dowland) 170
Wise men patience never want (Campion) 171
Woeful heart with grief oppressèd (John Dowland) 172
Ye bubbling springs that gentle music makes (Greaves) 172
You blessèd bowers whose green leaves now are spreading (Farmer) 173
You that wont to my pipe’s sound (Morley) 173
Your shining eyes and golden hair (Bateson) 174