O Care, thou wilt despatch me If music do not match thee So deadly thou dost sting me Mirth only help can bring me Hence Care, thou art too cruel Come, music, sick man's jewel His force had well nigh slain me But thou must now sustain me...Learn More

Though my carriage be but careless Though my looks be of the sternest Yet my passions be compareless When I love, I love in earnest No, my wits are not so wild But a gentle soul may yoke me Nor my heart so hard compiled But it melts, if love provoke me...Learn More

The Nightingale, the Organ of delight The nimble Lark, the Blackbird, and the Thrush And all the pretty quiristers of flight That chant their Music notes in ev'ry bush: Let them no more contend who shall excel The Cuckoo is the bird that bears the bell...Learn More

Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend My dearest friend is dead and laid in grave In grave he rests until the world shall end As end must all things have All things must have an end that Nature wrought Must unto dust be brought...Learn More

Strike it up, Tabor And pipe us a favour Thou shalt be well paid for thy labour I mean to spend my shoe-soul To dance about the Maypole I will be blithe and brisk Leap and skip, hop and trip Turn about in the rout Until very weary joints can scarce frisk Lusty Dick Hopkin Lay on with thy napkin The stitching cost me but a dodkin The Morris were...Learn More

To shorten winter's sadness See where the nymphs with gladness Disguisèd all are coming Right wantonly a-mumming Fa la Though masks encloud their beauty Yet give the eye her duty When Heaven is dark it shineth And unto love inclineth Fa la Whilst youthful sports are lasting To feasting turn our fasting; With revels and with wassails Make grief...Learn More

Alleluia, I heard a voice as of strong thunderings, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and honour and power be unto the Lord our God and to the Lamb for evermore. Alleluia...Learn More

As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending She spied a maiden Queen the same ascending Attended on by all the shepherds' swain To whom Diana's darlings came running down amain First two by two, then three by three together Leaving their goddess all alone hasted thither; And mingling with the shepherds of her train With mirthful tunes her presence...Learn More