Singing mens commissions.
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Thence for my voice, I must (no choice)
Away of forse, like posting horse,
For sundrie men, had [plagards] then,[E494]
such childe to take:
The better [brest],[3][E495] the lesser rest,
To serue the [Queere], now there now heere
For time so spent, I may repent,
and sorrow make.
Iohn Redford an excellent Musician [organist of St. Paul's. M.].
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But marke the chance, my self to [vance],
By friendships lot, to Paules I got,
So found I grace, a certaine space,
still to remaine:
With Redford there, the like no where,
For cunning such, and vertue much,
By whom some part of Musicke art,
so did I gaine.
Nicholas Vdall[E496] schoolmaster at Eton.
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From Paules I went, to Eaton sent,
To learn [streight waies], the latin [phraies],
Where fiftie three stripes giuen to mee,
at once I had:
For fault but small, or none at all,
It came to pas, thus beat I was,
See Udall see, the mercie of thee,
to me poore lad.
Trinitie hall in Cambridge.
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From London hence, to Cambridge thence,
With thanks to thee, O Trinitee,
That to thy hall, so passing all,[4]
I got at last:
There ioy I felt, there trim I dwelt,
There heauen from hell, I shifted well,
With learned men, a number then,
the time I past.
Quartan ague.
Lord Paget good to his seruants.