7. MADRIGAL for Five Voices.

CALME was aire, and cleere the skye,

Faire Oriana passing bye,

Over the downes to Ida plains,

Where hev'n born sisters with their traines, W Did all attend hir sacred beauty,qode bis enquin od Striving to excell in duty,

Satirs and nimphs dauncing together, por pig of ha Shepherds triumphing flocking thether,

Seeing their sov-raigne mistris ther,

That kept their flocks and them from feare, bygni

With hie strayn'd voice,

And harts rejoyce, alquaia bate abrogade odd yn dod Then sang the sheperds and nimphs of Diana, vil gol Long live fair Oriana!

8. MADRIGAL for Five Voices.

JOHN HOLMES.

THUS bonny bootes the birth-day celebrated,

Of hir his lady deerest,

Faire Oriana,

Which to his hart was neerest,

The nimphs and shepherds feasted,

With clowted creame were,

And to sing requested,

Loe, heere the faire created (quoth he) the world's chiefe goddesse,

Sing the faire Oriana, for she is bonny bootes sweet

mistress,

Then sang the shepherds and nimphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

9. MADRIGAL for Five Voices. RICHARD NICOLSON.

SING shepherds all, and in your roundelaies,

Sing onely of faire Orianaes praise,

The gods above will help to beare a part,
And men below will trie their greatest art,
Though neither gods nor men can well apply,
Fit song or tune to praise hir worthe-ly,

Then sang the shepheards and nymphes of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

And those of woods and mountains,
Like roes came mimbly skipping,
By signes their mirth unripping,
My fair queen they presented,
With amaltheas twentie,
Brim full of wealthie plentie,
And still to give frequented,
With bare gifts not contented;

The demy gods pray to the gods supernall,
Hir life, hir wealth, hir fame, may be eter-nall,
Then sang the shepherds and nimphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

11. MADRIGAL for Five Voices.

MICHAELL CAVENDISH.

COME gentle swaines and shepherds daintie daughters,

Adorned with courtesie and comely duties,

Come sing and ioy, and grace with lovely laughters,

The birth-day of the beauties.

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

WIT

12. MADRIGAL for Five Voices.

WILLIAM COBBOLD.

ITHDRAW yourselves yee shepherds from your

bowres,

And strew the path with flowres,

The nymphs are coming,

As all amazed they stand still gazing,

To see such bright stars blazing,

Lodian bravely treading,

The powres divine to hir doe vale their bonnets,
Prepare yourselves to sound your pasterall sonnets,
Then sang the shepherds and nimphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

13. MADRIGAL for Five Voices.

THOMAS MORLEY.

ARISE! awake, awake, awake!

You silly shepherds sleeping;

Devise some honor for her sake,

By mirth to banish weeping.

Loe wher she comes in gaudie green araying,
A prince of beauty, rich and rare ;
For hir delighting, pretends to go a maying,
You stately nymphs draw neere,

And strew your pathes with roses,

In you hir trust reposes.

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

1. MADRIGAL for Six Voices.

FAIRE nymphs I heard one telling,

To beautifie the place,

The faunes are running,

JOHN FARMER.

The shepherds their pipes are tunening,
To shew their cunning.

The lambs amazed leave of their grazing,
And blind their eyes with gazing,

Attended by the muses and the graces.

Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.

2. MADRIGAL for Six Voices.

THE lady Oriana

JOHN WILBYE.

Was dight all in the treasures of Guiana,

And on hir grace a thousand graces tended,

And thus sung they :

Fair queene of peace and plenty,

The fairest queen of twenty,

Then with an olive wreath for peace renowned,

Her virgin head they crowned,

Which cremony ended,

Unto hir grace the thousand graces bended,
Then sang the shepherds and nymph of Diana,
Long live faire Oriana.