The first booke of songes or ayres of foure parts, with tableture for the lute. So made, that all the partes together, or either of them severally may...

This is an expanded edition of the 1597 first book of Ayres. A note at the end of the volume states that this is the only known complete copy of the book, while the only other known copy, at the British Library, has the title page and many leaves torn and stained. On the title page is the signature of a former owner, Abrahams B. [Burggraf] zu Dhona dated '1630'. Spencer acquired the present volume from Alexander Furst zu Dohna-Schlobitten [annotation on the folder of the 1613 edition owned by Spencer], sold by Sotheby's on 9 May 1985, lot 66. See "Elizabethan Music Prints in an East-Prussian Castle" / Otto Heinrich Mies, Musica Disciplina, Vol. 3, Fasc. 2/4 (1949), pp. 171-172 (2 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/20531796

Unquiet thoughts; Whoever thinks or hopes of love for love; My thoughts are wingd with hopes; If my complaints could passion move; Can she excuse my wrongs; Now, o now, I needs must part; Deare if you change; Burst forth my teares; Go cryst all teares; Thinkst if thou then by thy fayning; Come away, come, sweet love; Rest awhile you cruel cares; Sleep, wayward thoughts; All ye, whom love or fortune; Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me; Would my conceit; Come again! sweet love doth now invite; His golden locks; Awake, sweet love; Come heavie sleepe ; Away with these self-loving lads

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