A K Bell Library, Perth

N16

• SuH 23 No. i

  Copy, in a musical setting.

  First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?'
• NaT 16 No. xiii

  Copy of a three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Dowland.

  First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

  Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')
• CmT 234 No. xvii

  Copy, in a musical setting.

  Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

  Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'
• CmT 137 No. xxxi

  Copy, in a musical setting.

  First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

  Thomas Campion, 'Though your strangenesse frets my hart'
• SoR 147 No. xliii

  Copy of line 25 et seq., in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning With my Love, my life was nested.

  First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

  Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
• CmT 27 No. liii

  Copy, in a musical setting.

  First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

  Thomas Campion, 'Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me'
• WoH 125 No. liv

  Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning You minor beauties of the night.

  First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

  Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')
• WaE 607 [no item number]

  Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.

  First published, as The cunning Curtezan, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

  Edmund Waller, To Phyllis ('Phyllis! why should we delay')
• HeR 248 [no item number]

  Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.

  First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

  Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')
• CnC 117 [no item number]

  Copy, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman, among the appended Italian songs.

  First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

  Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman ('Bring back my Comfort, and return')