Forty-seven (numbered 57 by Yonge) part songs consisting of 43 madrigals with original texts in Italian and 4 polyphonic chansons; for 4-6 voices, unacc. Includes pref. and indexes.
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Lady, your look so gentle / Cornelis Verdonck -- The fair Diana never more revived / Giovanni de Macque -- Joy so delights my heart and so relieves me ; False Love, now shoot and spare not / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- O Grief, if yet my grief be not believed ; As in the night we see the sparks revived / Baldassare Donato -- In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth / Philippe da Monte -- What meaneth Love to nest him ; Sweet Love, when hope was flow'ring / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Lady, that hand of plenty / Marc'Antonio da Pordenon -- Who will ascend to heav'n, and there obtain me / Giaches de Wert -- Lady, your look so gentle / Cornelis Verdonck -- But not so soon : from green stock where it growed / Part II, In vain he seeks for beauty that excelleth / William Byrd -- In ev'ry place I find my grief and anguish / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Thyrsis to die desired ; Part II, Thyrsis that heat refrained ; Part III, Thus these two lovers fortunately died / Luca Marenzio -- Susanna fair, sometime of love requested / Orlando di Lasso -- Susanna fair, sometime of love requested / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- When shall I cease lamenting? / Noèe Faignient -- I must depart all hapless / Luca Marenzio -- I saw my lady weeping, and Love did languish ; Part II, Like as from heav'n / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- So gracious is thy self, so fair, so framed ; Cruel! unkind! my heart thou hast bereft me / Giovanni Ferretti -- What doth my pretty darling? / Luca Marenzio -- Sleep, sleep, mine only jewel ; Part II, Thou bring'st her home full nigh me / Stefano Felis -- Sound out, my voice, with pleasant tunes recording / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Liquid and wat'ry pearls Love wept full kindly / Luca Marenzio -- The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay / Orlando di Lasso -- Within a greenwood sweet of myrtle savour / Giovanni Ferretti -- Sometime, when hope relieved me, I was contented / Rinaldo del Mel -- Rubies and pearls and treasure ; O sweet kiss, full of comfort ; Sometime my hope full weakly / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- Lady, that hand of plenty / Lelio Bertani -- My heart, alas, why dost thou love thine enemy? / Girolamo Conversi -- Lady, if you so spite me / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- When I would thee embrace (Cantio rustica) / Giovanni Battista Pinello -- Thyrsis enjoyed the graces ; The nightingale, so pleasant and so gay / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- The fair young virgin is like the rose untainted Part II, But not so soon : from green stock where it growed / William Byrd -- Because my love, too lofty and too despiteful / Luca Marenzio. These that be certain signs of my tormenting ; So far from my delight, what cares torment me ; Part II, She only doth not feel it / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- Lo, here my heart in keeping / Anonymous -- Now must I part, my darling / Luca Marenzio -- Zephyrus brings the time that sweetly scenteth ; Part II, But with me, wretch, the storms of woe persever / Girolamo Conversi -- I was full near my fall, and hardly 'scaped ; Part II, But as the bird that in due time espying / Alfonso Ferrabosco -- I sung sometime the freedom of my fancy ; Part II, Because my love, too lofty and too despiteful / Luca Marenzio.
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