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London: T. H. for John Playford, 1653, 1655.
London: W. Godbid for John Playford, 1658.
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General Information
| Work Title
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Ayres and Dialogues for 1-3 Voices
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| Alternative. Title
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Ayres and Dialogues, for One, Two, And Three Voyces
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| Composer
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Lawes, Henry
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IHL 2
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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3 books
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| First Publication.
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1653
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| Librettist
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see below
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| Language
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English, 1 Italian, 1 Latin, 2 Ancient Greek
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| Dedication
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Book 1:
- the two most excellent sisters, Alice Countess of Carbery, and Mary Lady Herbert of Cherbury and Castle-Island, daughters of John Earl of Bridgewater
Book 2: Lady Mary Dering, Wife to Sir Edward Dering of Surenden Dering
Book 3: Lord Colrane [Coleraine]
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Baroque
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| Piece Style
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Baroque
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| Instrumentation
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1-3 voices, continuo (theorbo/viol); 3 voices
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About 10 years later Playford and Godbid brought out a very similar 3-volume collection, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (Various), of which only Volume 3 is the same as here. Another similarly-titled collection is The Treasury of Musick (Playford, John).
Contents
Book 1
- For voice and continuo (author of text in brackets)
- Ariadne (William Cartwright)
- Am I dispis'd because you say (Robert Herrick)
- Amarantha sweet and fair (Richard Lovelace)
- Ask me why I send you here (Herrick)
- Be gone, be gone, thou perjur'd man (Henry Lawes)
- Careless of Love, and free from Fears (Carew Raleigh)
- Chloris your self you so excell (Edmund Waller)
- Celia thy bright Angel's face (Thomas, Earl of Winchelsea)
- Canst thou love me, and yet doubt (William, Earl of Pembroke)
- Come, my Lucasta (Charles Lucas)
- Come, heavy souls (William Stroud)
- Come, come thouh glorious object (Sir William Killigrew)
- Come my sweet whilst every strain (William Cartwright)
- Dearest do not nw delay me (Henry Harington, son of Sir Henry)
- Farewell fair saint (Thomas Cary, late of the Bedchamber, son of the Earl of Monmouth)
- Gaze not on Swann's (Henry Noel, son of Viscount Camden)
- Give me more love or more disdain (Thomas Carew, late of the Privy Chamber)
- He that love's a rosie cheek (Thomas Carew)
- I long to sing the siege of Troy (John Berkenhead, after Anacreon)
- If when the sun at noon (T. Carew)
- It is not that I love you lesse (E. Waller)
- Imbre lachrymarum largo (Thomas Fuller)
- Ladies who gild the glitt'ring noon (Francis Lenton)
- Lately on yonder swelling bush (E. Waller)
- Lovely Chloris through thine eyes (Henry Reynolds)
- The Day's return'd (J. Berkenhead)
- Till now I never did believe (Sir Thomas Neville)
- Till I beheld fair Celia's face (Francis Finch)
- Tis true fair Celia (Henry Bathurst)
- Thou art so fair and young (Aurelian Townshend)
- Tis Wine that inspir's (Lord Broughall)
- Two hundred minutes are run down (J. Berkenhead)
- Venus redress a wrong (Cartwright)
- When thou poor excommunicate (Carew)
- When on the altar of my head (Carew)
- While I listen to thy voice (Waller)
- ΘÎλω λÎγειν 'ΑτζÎιδας (Anacreon)
- Inquel gelato core (various)
- Dialogues and songs for 2 voices and continuo
- Distressed Pilgrim (Francis Lovelace)
- Aged man that mowes these fields (Aurelian Townshend)
- As Celia rested in the shade (T. Carew)
- Bacchus l'acchus fill our brains (A. Townshend)
- Go thou emblem of my heart (H. Harington)
- O the fickle state of lovers (Francis Quarles)
- Musick thou Queen of Souls (Thomas Randolph)
- Ayres and songs for 3 voices with or without continuo
- Come Chloris, hie we to the bower (Henry Reynolds)
- Though my torment far exceeds (H. Harington)
- If my mistress fix her eye (H. Harington)
- Keep on your vaile (W. Stroud)
- Thou Shepheard whose intentive eye (A. Townshend)
- O now the certain cause I know (Cartwright)
- Sing fair Clorinda (William Davenant)
- Grieve not dear love (John, Earl of Bristol)
- Ladyes whose smooth and dainty skin (H. Harington)
Book 2
- For voice and continuo
- And is this all? what one poor kiss? (Edward Dering - music composed by Mary Dering)
- Away, away, Anacreon (H. Harington)
- Ah the false fatal tale I read (Reynolds)
- But that I knew before we met (Finch)
- Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim (John Grange)
- Can so much beauty (Sir James Palmer)
- Come my Lucasta since we see (Katherine Philips (1631-1664))
- Cupid, who didst ne'er see light (Cartwright)
- Chloris since first our calm of peace (Waller)
- Come, Chloris, leave thy wandring sheep (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- Dear, thy face is heaven to me (Sir Christopher Neville)
- Delicate Beauty (A. Townshend)
- Elegie on Mrs. Sambrook (Mr. F. S[ambrook?])
- Go little winged archer (Mr. I. C.)
- Go lovely rose (Waller)
- Help, help, O help (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- How long shall I a martyr be? (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- I have been in heaven I think (A. Townshend)
- In vain fair Chloris you design (Dering, Mary) (Edward Dering - music composed by Mary Dering)
- Know Caelia since thou art so proud (Thomas Carew)
- Ladies, you that seem so nice (H. Harington)
- Let longing lovers sit and pine (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- ΛÎγουσιν άι γυναίκες / Legousin hai gunaikes (Anacreon)
- Now, now, Lucasia (Berkenhead)
- O how I hate thee now! (Berkenhead)
- O King of Heaven and Hell (Berkenhead)
- O turn away those cruel eyes (Thomas Stanley)
- Old Poets Hippocrene admire (Mr. N. N.)
- On this swelling bank (Mr. I. G.)
- Such was the sorrow Chloris felt (H. Reynolds)
- Take heed fair Chloris (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- Tell me no more 'tis love (Sir John Mennes)
- Tis not i'th' power of all thy scorn (Matthew Clifford)
- When first I saw fair Doris' eyes (Edward Dering - music composed by Mary Dering)
- Was it a form, a gate, a grace (Reynolds)
- When as Leander (Robert Herrick)
- When we were parted (A. Townshend)
- Yes, yes, 'tis Chloris sings (Reynolds)
- Dialogues
- Ah Coridon, contentedly we tend (Mr. S. B.)
- Daphne, Shepherds if they knew (James Harrington)
- Weep not (Thomas Carew)
- Short Ayres
- Among rose-buds slept a bee (Berkenhead)
- A lover once I did espie (John Grange)
- About the sweet-bag of a bee (Robert Herrick)
- Beauties have yee seen a toy (Ben Jonson
- Call the Spring with all her flowers (James Harrington)
- Dear, let me now this evening (W. Davenant)
- Fear not, dear love (Thomas Carew)
- Hither we come into this world (John Fletcher)
- In the non-age of a Winters day (Mr. I. M.)
- View, Lesbia, view (Reynolds)
- Why should great beauties (W. Davenant)
- 3 Hymns (John Crofts)
Book 3
- Ayres - text to all by Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652)
- As sad Amintor in a meadow lay
- Alas poor Cupid! thou art blind?
- Beauty once blasted with the frost
- Black as thy lovely eye or hair
- Chloris when e're you do intend
- Chloris now thou art fled away
- Did I once say that thou wert fair
- Fond woman thou mistak'st the mark
- Fain would I love but that I fear
- Forgive me love what I have done
- Go young man let my heart alone
- Go fair enchantress
- Have you e're seen the morning sun
- In love? away, you do me wrong
- I prethee love take heed
- Let me alone, I'll love no more
- Love thee? Goodsooth not I
- Mourn, mourn with me all true
- Oft have I sworn I'd love no more
- O now I find tis nought but fate
- O tell me love, O tell me fate
- See, see my Chloris (on the Queen's landing at Burlington)
- See, Chloris, see how Nature brings
- Stay ye greedy merchants, stay
- Take heed bold lover, do not look
- Though thou hast Wit and Beauty
- What wilt thou pine or fall away?
- When shall I see my captive heart?
- Why up so early in the world?
- Dialogues (author of text in brackets)
- Among the Fancies, tell me this (Robert Herrick)
- Awake fair Floramell (John Mennes)
- Come Amaryllis I am ty'd by oath (Thomas Porter)
- I love a Nymph (Henry Reynolds)
- Short Ayres
- Dear, throw that flattering glasse away (Reynolds)
- Do not delay though (Henry Harrington)
- Go Phoebus clear thy face (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- I have prays'd with all my skill (Henry Harrington)
- If you can find a heart sweet love (Sir Patrick Abercromy)
- I prethee send me back my heart (Henry Hughes (ca.1602–1652))
- Once Venus cheeks (W. Stroud)
- Sure thou framed wert by art (John Grange)
- Trust the forme of Ayre things (Henry Harrington)
- When doth love set forth desire (Mr. N. D.)
