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Add MS 24665
- Record Id:
- 032-002031949
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031949
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24665
- Title:
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A collection of songs, and one unaccompanied duet, collected by Giles Earle
- Scope & Content:
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passim. Songs, with a bass, collected by Giles Earle. Many of them are taken from part-songs, but embellished with fioriture for a solo voice. None of the composers' names are given. 1. 'Sleepe, sleepe, though greife torment.' f. 5b. 2. 'Ay me! Can loue and beautie soe conspire.' f. 6b. 3. 'Come, you prettie false-eied wanton.' By T. Campion. [From , 1610.] f. 7b. 4. 'I care not for those ladies.' By the same. [From ,... by Phillip Rosseter, 1601.] f. 8b. 5. 'As on a day Sabina fell a-sleepe.' f. 9b. 6. ' I loue a loue.' f. 10b. 7. 'Flow, my teares.' By J. Dowland. [From , 1597 {1600}.] f. 11b. 8. ' Yf my complaintes could passions move.' By the same [from the same work], {[from , 1597.]} f. 12b.The words of nos. 9-18 are from Robert Jones' Ultimum Vale, 1608; and, as the music also of nos. 11 and 16 is by him, they are presumably all his composition. 9. 'Doe not, O doe not prize thy beautie.' f. 13b. 10. 'Beautie sate bathinge.' f. 14b. 11. 'Goe to bed, sweet muse.' f. 15b. 12. 'Shall l looke to ease my greife.' f. 16b. 13. 'What if I speed.' f. 17b. 14. 'Cease, troubled thoughtes.' f. 18b. 15. 'Scinthia, queene of seas and lands.' f. 19b. 16. 'Think'st thou, Kate, to put mee downe.' 1615. f. 20b. 17. 'When will the fountaine of my teares.' f. 21b. 18. 'Flie from the world.' f. 22b. 19. 'Yf I could shutt the gates.' By J. Danyel. [From , 1606.] f. 23b. 20. 'Whie should wee maides.' f. 24b. 21. 'What if a day.' See , i, p. 100, for a further description, f. 25b. {[By T. Campion, before 1606.]} 22. ' Come againe, sweet loue.' By J. Dowland. [From his .] f. 26b. 23. 'How can the tree but waste.' See , i, p. 72. f. 27b. {[1596]} 24. 'Sleepe, wayward thoughts.' By J. Dowland. [From his .] f. 28b. 25. 'What is a daie.' By P. Rosseter. [From A Booke of Ayres, 1601.] f. 29b. 26. 'Though you are younge.' By T. Campion. [From the same work.] f. 30b. A gap of several leaves occurs here, containing the bass of the preceding song and the air of the following : — 27. ' Hence, leaden care.' f. 31. f. 31b. 28. 'Sorrowe, sorrowe, staye.' By J. Dowland. [From his .] 29. 'The sweetest flower.' f. 32b. A leaf is lost here, containing the bass of no. 29 and the air of no. 30. 30. 'Neere to a bancke of roses.' f. 33. 31. 'Drop not, myne eyes': the second part of a song begins 'Greefe, keep within.' By J. Danyel. [From , 1606.] f. 33b. 32. 'Hold, lingell, hold.' f. 34b. 33. 'As at noone Dulcina rested'; 1615. f. 35b. 34. 'Vnkinde death.' f. 36b. 35. 'Rests mee here.' f. 37b. 36. ' Greiue not, Tibullus.' f. 38b. 37. 'Fy, fy [what a coil].' By R. Jones. [From his< Second Booke of Songes and Ayres>, 1601.] The melody wanting, owing to the loss of a leaf, f. 40. 38. 'Susanna faire.' By W. Byrd. [From , 1588.] f. 40b. 39. 'I am the man that mirthles liues.' f. 41b. 40. 'Can shee excuse my wronges.' By J. Dowland. [From his .] f. 42b. 41. 'Mistress myne, well may you fare.' By T. Morley (?). [From his , 1600.] f. 43b. 42. 'Many desire.' f. 44b. 43. 'Sound yee, sheppheards.' f. 45b. 44. 'Is't for a grace.' f. 46b. 45. 'O that my eies {= cries} were equall to my woes.' f. 47b. 46. 'To plead my faith' [ascribed to D. Batchelor in R. Dowland's , 1610 ; and, in Add MS 17786-17791, to W. Wigthorp]. f. 48b. 47. 'Silly boy, it is full Moone.' By T. Campion. [From his , 1612.] f. 50b. 48. 'Vnto a fly transform'd.' By J. Bartlet. [From his , 1606.] f. 51b. 49. 'Art thou that shee.' f. 52b. 50. 'Young and simple though I am.' By A. Ferrabosco, jun. [From his , 1609.] f. 53b. 51. 'Phillis was a faire maide.' f. 54b. 52. 'Sweet Muses.' f. 55b. 53. 'Nowe I see thy lookes were fayned.' f. 56b. 54. 'Wanton, away.' f. 57b. 55. 'The darke is my delight.' f. 58b. 56. 'Yf I freely may discouer.' f. 59b. 57. 'Shall I come, sweet Love.' By T. Campion. [From his .] f. 61b. 58. 'What thing is Love.' By P. Rosseter. [From , 1601.] f. 62b. 59. 'My thred is spun.' f. 65b. 60. 'Pulchra nuper Rosalina.' f. 66b. 61. 'Whie dost thou turne away.' f. 68b. 62. 'Goe, silly note.' f. 69b. 63. 'When from my loue I look't for loue.' By J. Bartlet. [From his .] f. 71b. The remaining songs, as well as a few which have been omitted above, have not had the music filled in.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002031949", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 24665: A collection of songs, and one unaccompanied duet, collected by Giles Earle" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031949
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031949
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1614
- End Date:
- 1627
- Date Range:
- 1615?-1626?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. Oblong Octavo.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Earle, Giles
- Subjects:
- Duets
Songs