See, see, mine own sweet jewel, What I have for my darling: A robin-redbreast and a starling. These I give both in hope to move thee; Yet thou say’st I do not love thee.
Canzonets, or Little Short Songs to Three Voices
by Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602)
The first edition (1593) included twenty madrigals; the second edition (1606) added four additional madrigals.
1. See, see, mine own sweet jewel  [sung text checked 1 time]
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 98.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
2. Joy, joy doth so arise  [sung text checked 1 time]
Joy, joy doth so arise and so content me, When I but see thee, O my life's fair treasure. Joy, joy doth so arise and so content me, That seeing makes me blind through too great pleasure. But if such blinding, love, doth so delight thee, Come, love, and more thus, blind me still and spite me.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. Cruel, you pull away too soon  [sung text checked 1 time]
Cruel, you pull away to soone your lips, your dainty lips, when as you kisse mee, But you should hould them still and then should you blisse mee, Now or eare I tast them, strait away they hast them, But you perhaps retire them, to move my thoughts thereby the more to fyre them. Alas such baits you need to fynd out never: if you would let mee, (you should not feare) I would kisse you. If you would let mee I would kisse and kisse you ever.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]4. Lady, those eyes  [sung text checked 1 time]
Lady, those eyes of yours, Lady, those fair eyes, Lady mine, those eyes that shine so clearly: Why do you hide from me, That bought their beams so dearly? Think not, when thou exil'st me, Less heat in me sojourneth, O no, no, O no, no, Then thou beguil'st thee. Love doth but shine in thee, But O, in me he burneth.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. Hold out my heart  [sung text checked 1 time]
Hold out my heart, with joy's delights accloyed, O hold thou out my heart, and show it, That all the world may know it, What sweet content thou lately hast enjoyed; She that, "Come dear", would say, Then laugh and run away, And if I stayed her, thus would she then cry, "Nay, fie for shame, fie", My true love true not regarding; hath giv'n my love now at length his full rewarding. So that, unless I may tell the joys that overfill me, My joys kept in, I know in time will kill me.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]6. Good morrow, fair ladies of the May  [sung text checked 1 time]
Good morrow, fair Ladies of the May, where is my cruel? Good morrow, fair Ladies of the May, where is my sweet cruel? fair Cloris my sweet cruel? O see where she comes a Queen, all in green, all in gaudy green arraying, O how gaily goes my sweet jewel. Was never such a Maying, Since May delights first decaying. So was my Cloris sheen brought home and made May Queen.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]7. Whither away so fast  [sung text checked 1 time]
Whither away so fast, so fast? Tell me my dearest dear darling: Whither away so fast, alone so fast away, Whither away so fast from me your true love, Your true love approved? What haste I say, what haste, Mine own best darling dear beloved? Then lo I come, dispatch thee I come, I come, lo I come, dispatch thee I come, Hence I say, away, hence, away, or I catch thee. Think not thus away to 'scape all alone without me; But run, you need not doubt me: What now? What faint you, of your sweet feet forsaken? O well I see you mean to mock me, run, I say, Or else I catch you; what you halt? O do you so? Alack the while; what are you down? Pretty maid, well overtaken. What now? What faint you, of your sweet feet forsaken? O well I see you mean to mock me; Run, I say, or else I catch you. What, you halt? O do you so? Alack the while, what, are you down? Pretty maid, well overtaken.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]8. Blow, Shepherds, blow  [sung text checked 1 time]
Blow, Shepherds, blow, blow your pipes with glee resounding, with gladsome glee resounding: See lo where the fair Eliza, see she comes with love, love and heavenly grace abounding. Run Nymphs apace, go meet her with flowers and garlands goodly greet her. All hail Eliza fair, the country's goddess; long mayst thou live the shepherds queen, and lovely Mistress; long mayst thou live the shepherds lovely Mistress; long mayst thou live their Mistress.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]9. Deep lamenting  [sung text checked 1 time]
Deep lamenting, grief, bewraying; Poor Amintas thus sat saying: Glut now thine eyes full, while I lie here adying; killed with disdain, alas, and pity crying; Now, mayst thou laugh full merrily; for dead lo is the man, dead is thy mortal enemy. O no, weep not, I cannot bide this blindness; All too late now God wot, all too late comes this kindness. But if you would that death should, death of life, of life should deprive me; Weep not alas lest you revive me, weep not lest you thereby revive me. Ah cease to bewail me, my life now doth fail me.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]10. Farewell disdainful  [sung text checked 1 time]
Farewell disdainful, since no love avails me, O sharp and bitter anguish, What discord grief assails me? Needs I must part, alas, yet parting makes me languish. But yet it pleaseth thee. Therefore unkind, now adieu, there is no remedy. O come again, O come again return thee: No, false Love, thy flames no more shall burn me. No, be still content thee: when I am gone, perhaps, then wilt thou repent thee.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]11. O fly not, O take some pity  [sung text checked 1 time]
O fly not, O take some pity. I faint alas, I faint; O stay, O stay her. See how she flies away; O stay and hear my prayer. With one sweet look you may of torment ease me; I am no tiger fierce that seeks to spill thee. No, no, I see, thou dost but this to kill me. Lo then I die, and all to please thee.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]12. Thirsis, let pity move thee  [sung text checked 1 time]
Thirsis, O let some pity move thee; Thou know'st, O alas, thy Cloris too well doth love thee; Yet thou, unkind, dost fly me. Then why, O dost thou fly me? I faint, alas, here must I lie me. Cry, alas, now for grief since he is bereft thee. Up the hills, down the dales, Thou seest, dear, I have not left thee. Ah, can these trickling tears of mine not procure love? What shepherd ever kill'd a nymph for pure love! See, cruel, see the beasts, See their tears, they do reward me.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]13. Now must I die recureless  [sung text checked 1 time]
Now must I die, alas, recureless, When faith is thus regarded, And poor Love, alas, unkindly is thus rewarded. O grief, alas, O who may abide it? Hold out, break not heart, O hide it. O Nature cruel, witty, Beauty so to make sans pity. Farewell, adieu, with this your love unfeigned; I die alas, through your disdain constrained. O grief; beauty and no, no pity. Farewell, adieu, with this your love unfeigned; I die alas, through your disdain constrained.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]14. Lady, if I through grief  [sung text checked 1 time]
Lady, if I through grief and your disdaining, Judged be to live in hell eternally remaining, Of those my burning flames, well shall I rest contented, O but you I wail, who there must be tormented. For when I shall behold you, alone your eyes will so delight me, That no great pain can once affright me. But this, alas, O would have killed me, do not doubt you, There to have been alone without you.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]15. Cease mine eyes  [sung text checked 1 time]
Cease mine eyes, cease your lamenting, O cease, alas, this your lamenting. In vaine you hope of her hard heart's relenting. O cease your flowing: drop not so fast, O where no grace is growing. See she laughs, she smiles, she plays with joy and gladness; To see your grief and sadness. O Love, thou art abused; Was never true love so scornfully thus used.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]16. Do you not know how Love lost first his seeing?  [sung text checked 1 time]
Do you not know how Love lost first his seeing? Because with me once gazing On those fair eyes where all powers have their being, She with her beauty blazing, Which death might have revivèd, Him of his sight and me of heart deprivèd.
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 21.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
17. Where art thou wanton?  [sung text checked 1 time]
Where art thou wanton, where art thou, and I so long about have sought thee? See where thy true love true His heart to keep hath brought thee. Then why dost thou hide thee? O why dost thou hide thee? Still I follow thee, but thou fliest me; O why fliest thou me? Say unkind and do no more deride me.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]18. What ails my darling?  [sung text checked 1 time]
What ails my pretty darling? What ails mine own sweet darling, Thus sitting all alone so weary? Say, why is my dear now not merry? O cease thus to grieve thee, And take this kiss here to relieve thee. Up now, arise thee; O how can my love lie asleeping, And see yon lusty, lusty leaping?
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]19. Say dear, will you not have me?  [sung text checked 1 time]
Say, dear, will you not have me? Here then that kiss take you gave me. You elsewhere perhaps think to bestow it, And I as loth again would be to owe it. Or if you will not, so take the thing once given: Let me kiss you, and so we shall be even.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]20. Arise, get up my dear  [sung text checked 1 time]
Arise, get up, my deere, arise, my deere, make hast to be gone thee, lo where the bride faire Daphne, bright, where the bride faire Daphne bright tarries on thee. Harke, o, harke you merry merry maydens squealing: spice cake sopps in wyne are now dealing, spice cake sops in wyne are a dealing, Runne then run a pace, so get a bride lace, and a guilt Rosemary branch the while yet ther is catching, and then hould fast for feare of old snatching. Alas my deere why weep she, O feare not that, deere love the next day keep wee, List hark you Minstrells, how fine they firck it? and how the maids irck it, with Kate and Will, Tom and Gill, now a skip, then a trip, finely set a loft, here againe as oft, o blessed holly day, List harck you Minstrells, how fine they firck it? and how the maides irck it, with Kate and Will, Tom and Gill, now a skip, then a trip, finely set a loft ther again as oft, hey ho blessed holly, holly day.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]21. Love learns by laughing  [sung text checked 1 time]
Love learns by laughing first to speak, by laughing first to speak, Then slyly gains cares passing great. Fa la la la la la. But I will laugh, but I will laugh, will laugh, but I will laugh without that care, And bid love touch me if he dare. Fa la la la la la la.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]22. This Love is but a wanton fit  [sung text checked 1 time]
This Love is but a wanton fit, Deluding every youngling's wit. Fa la la la la la. The winged boy doth never light, but where he finds an idle wight. Fa la la la la la.
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Though Philomela lost her love, fresh note she warbleth yes! again; Fa la la la. He is a fool that lovers prove: and leaves to sing, to live in pain. Fa la la la.
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Springtime mantleth every bough, and Bowers make for Shepherd's sport, birds and beasts are of consort: Fa la la la la. Our hearts in true love we do vow, unto that Fairy Shepherds' maid, we with true love are repaid. Fa la la la la.
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