GLEE for Three Voices. WM. HORSLEY, M. B. WHY does azure deck the sky? 'Tis to be like thy looks of blue : Why is red the roses dye? Because it is thy blushes hue. All things fair, by heav'n's decree, Have been made resembling thee. Why is falling snow so white? Why are solar beams so bright? That they may seem thy golden hair. Why are nature's beauties felt? O'tis thine in them we see ! Why has music pow'r to melt? O! because it speaks like thec. Thomas Little, Esq. Twenty-seven Madrigales, THE TRIUMPHES OF ORIANA, AND ONE CALLED THE FAREWELL, TO FIVE AND SIX VOICES, COMPOSED BY DIVERS SEVERALL AUCTHORS. Newly published by THOMAS MORLEY, BATCHELER OF MUSICK, AND ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN OF HER MAIESTIES HONOURABLE CHAPPELL. 1601. IN LONDON. PRINTED BY THOMAS ESTE, THE ASSIGNE OF THOMAS MORLEY. Cum privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. |