The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (John Dowland)

General description

Title: The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4 and 5 parts: with Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba

Publication date and place: 1600 London: George Eastland.

Description: Numbers 1-8 are songs for 2 voices; numbers 9-20 are songs for 4 voices; numbers 21-22 are songs for 5 voices.

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Works included

No.	Title	Voices	Voices	Comments
	Praise God upon the lute and viol
1	I saw my lady weep	2
2	Flow my tears, fall from your springs	2
3	Sorrow, sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears	2
4	Die not before thy day	2
5	Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled	2
6	Time's eldest son, Old Age, the heir of Ease	2		(First part)
7	Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis'	2		(Second part)
8	When others sing 'Venite exultemus'	2		(Third part)
9	Praise blindnesse eies, for seeing is deceipt	4
10	O sweet woods, the delight of solitarienesse	4
11	If fluds of teares could clense my follies past	4
12	Fine knacks for Ladies, cheap, choise, braue and new	4
13	Now cease my wand'ring eyes	4
14	Come ye heavy states of night	4
15	White as lilies was her face	4
16	Woeful heart with grief oppressed	4
17	A shepherd in a shade his plaining made	4
18	Faction that ever dwells in court	4
19	Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace	4
20	Tosse not my soule	4
21	Cleare or cloudie sweet as Aprill showring	5
22	Humor say what makst thou heere	5
	Adieu for Master Oliver Cromwell