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]

LYRICS FROM ELIZABETHAN SONG-BOOKS.

Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Campion.