Add MS 15117

ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b.

f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weights' (sic): melody of a song with lute accompaniment, in tablature; after 1614. The words are from 'Damon and Pythias,' which was set to music by Richard Edwards and performed at Court about 1566. {J.H. Long, 'Music & Letters', 1967?, on this song?}

ff. 3b-23 passim. Songs, or possibly in some cases the treble of part-songs, with a lute accompaniment in tablature; after 1614. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. For nos. 1 and 7, see , i, pp. 106, 111. 1. 'O deathe, rock me asleepe.' Different from Add MS 30480, f . 37b. f. 3b. 2. 'In youthlye yeeres.' f. 14b. 3. '... unto my fame a mortall wounde.' Imperfect at the beginning, f. 15. 4. 'Treade Juno's steps.' f. 15b. 5. 'Synce my joyes thoroughe Phillis' frownes.' f. 16. 6. 'Have you seene but a Whyte Lillie grow ': the second verse of 'See the chariot ' {The Devil is an Ass} by Ben Jonson. (Appears in Add MS 29481, f. 21, with slight variations in the words and music.) f. 17b. 7. ' The poor soule sate sighinge ': the 'Willow '-song adapted by Shakespeare in , f. 18. 8. 'My trewe love hath my hart.' The words from Sir Philip Sydney's , f. 18b. 9. 'I must complaine.' The words by T. Campion. f. 19. 10. 'Have I caught my heavenlye Jewell.' f. 19. 11. 'Come, my Celia, let us prove.' The words from Ben Jonson's , the music from the of Alfonso Ferrabosco, jun., 1609. f. 20b. 12. 'What yf I seeke for loue of thee.' By R. Jones [from his of , 1600]. f. 22b. 13. 'Faine would I chainge that note.' By Captain Tobias Hume [from his , 1605]. f. 23.

ff. 4-6b, 19b. Melody, with lute accompaniment, in tablature, of the following songs; after 1614. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'heavenlye god, father deare.' f. 4. 2. 'O Lord, whos grace no lymites comprehende '; the words by [Mary] Countess of Pembroke (d. 1621). The signature at the end, 'Jam. Ha.' may possibly be that of James Harding, a composition by whom (about 1612) occurs in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. f. 4b. 3. 'From depth of greife.' f. 5b. 4. 'Miserere, my maker.' f. 6. 5. 'Alack! when I look back'; possibly from an anthem by W. Byrd. f. 6b. 6. 'O god! But god how dare I name.' 'Birde.' f. 19b.

ff. 7, 9b, 15b, 21. Melody with lute accompaniment, in tablature, of the following compositions; after 1614: 1. 'Sleepe, wayward thoughts.' [J. Dowland, , 1597.] f. 7. 2. 'Aprill is my mistres face.' [T. Morley, , 1594.] f. 9b. 3. 'The peacefull westerne winde.' The words are supposed to be by Thomas Campion, who set them to other music in his , 1610; the music here is by Thomas Morley, in whose , 1595, it appears to the words 'Nowe is the monthe of mayinge,' which are given here as an alternative, f. 10. 4. 'If my complaints.' [J. Dowland, as in no. 1.] f. 15b. 5. 'It was a tyme when Sillye Bees. [By the same. , 1603.] f. 21.

ff. 7v, 12v-14, 16v. Treble part, with lute accompaniment in tablature, of the following Anthems; after 1614: — 1. 'O God, geive eare and do applye.' Anonymous. f. 7b. 2. 'Deliver me from myne Enimies.' By R. Parsons. f. 12b. 3. 'Come let vs singe to God with praise.' By Sir W. Leighton. f. 13b. 4. 'O lovinge god and father deere.' By the same. f. 13b. 5. 'An heart thats broken.' By J. Dowland. f. 14. 6. 'Yeeld vnto God, the lord on highe.' By R. Johnson. f. 14. 7. 'O sacrum conuivium,' with the alternative words 'I call and crye.' By T. Tallis, from the Cantiones Sacræ of Tallis and Byrd, 1575. f. 16b. Nos. 3-6 are evidently taken from Sir W. Leighton's Tears or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul, 1614.

ff. 10b, 12. Two dialogues; the melody with lute accompaniment, in tablature; after 1614. Anonymous. 1. 'Come, gentle heardman, sitt with me.' [In Davison's , 1602.] f. 10b. 2. 'Saye, fonde love, what seekes thowe heere.' f. 12.

f. 22b. Short Composition in 4 parts, written in compressed score, on two staves of six lines; after 1614. Anonymous.

f. 24. Index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter,' published by Richard Allison in 1599; after 1599. The MS. evidently once contained the psalms themselves, as appears from the inscription on the original cover (f. 25).