specially the people of Athens as soone as anie was once past fourteene yeeres of age had a custome and law that they should be brought vnto Delphos to offer theyr fayre haires, their gay and friseling bushes of their head vnto Apcllo as a sacrifice of their first fruit and a pawn or pledge of their homage to God Apollo. So much esteemed they theyr haires, that they thought nothing to be so acceptable vnto Apollo, as that whiche was moste grateful vnto the. The Thracians likewise had such regard vnto their haire of their heades that they kemed it, and decked it vpon their forehead with curling knots vpon long haires so that their chiefe care & studie was to trimme those which they esteemed most. In India the subiectes in all thinges obayed theyr prynce and the lawes but in shauing their haires, which by no meanes they woulde agree vnto. The Argiues loued so well their haires that being co uicted by the Lacedemonians at Tiria, they shaued their haires, bewayled & wept their misfortune so much, that they vowed neuer to let their haires growe before they woulde recouer againe Tiria. The Greekes honored their long haires and so esteemed their beardes that Homer was woonte to call them Carecomoontas, that is to say, fayre haired. It shoulde seeme that the Macedonians made too much of their haires & beards, for at what time Alexander the great had gathered all his power and force to take his conquest in hand being demaunded of his souldiers whether in them any thing were to bee amended; the wise prince considering the great hurt and inconuenience that shoulde happen chiefly in warres vnto those that were long haired or long bearded; and againe being loth to offend his souldiours, for that he knew well they much esteemed their beardes; hee smiling merily spake: I see no want in you nor no vntowardnesse but I wishe your beardes and long haires were at home vņtill your returne. They meruayling much at his request Parmenio aunswered and sayde: that the Macedonians wot not what you meane thereby. Then Alexander perceyuing that his soldiours were angry for his desire and wishe, sayd, because long haire is dau gerous and specially amongst the enimies; there is no better holde then by beardes or haires. But it seemed that they had rather to be conquered like men in their beards then to be co querers like boies without beards. As for the Romanes, haires delighted them so much that there was no shauing seene, no Barbers knowne vntil Pu. Ticinius brought certaine Barbers out of Sicilia vnto Rome. But for the space of foure hundred and foure and fifty yeares, Rome nourished their long haire before as that which they best delighted in for the time. Affricanus was the first

that

that euer delighted in barbers, and next vnto him was Augustus Cæsar, successour to Iulius Cæsar ..... At what time Aristippus was brought vnto Sinius house the Phrigian, which was so dressed with cloth of Arras & preticus hangings that the very flowers so gorgiously shined that hee could not finde in the house a place to spitte without sore offence he spit in his handenapkin, and thrue it into Simus face, who was all bearded: hee being angrie therewith demunded the cause why hee so little esteemed him: for that, sayd Aristippus, that I sawe not in all the house so foule a place as that which shoulde haue been most cleane, meaninge hys bearde; anl though it was merilye done of Aristippus, yet it was not so merily thought of Simus, which more esteemed his bearde than Aristippus esteemed all his pretious clothes, and golden hangings. The like did Ieronimus, surnamed Rhetus, make of his bearde: for when I see, sayd hee, my beard, than I know right well that I am a man and not a woman; and then knowing myself to bee a man, I am ashamed to doe any thinge lyke a woman, eyther in woorde or deede. Much more might bee here alleaged for the auctorities of beardes and for esteeming of long haire, for there is no country be it euer so ciuill, but it is addicted vnto some peculiar qualities, neither is there any man bee hee euer so wise, but doth glory in one thing more then in another: as the wise man in his wisedome, the learned man in his knowledge, the ignorant man in his folly, the proude man in his person, the selfe louer in some place more than in other, either in his face, body, legge, middle, foote, yea in hande and haire; and specially many do make much account of their bearde, kembing, decking, handling and setting it in order alwayes. But because people are mutable and full of chaunge and that time altereth all things wee will no further proceede in this, though men may missiudge of o'hers concerning their long haires aud beardes: yet I say iudgement is not safe in this poynt, for it may bee that they preferre the rusty rude countrey poet Hesiodus before the warlike and eloquent Homer as Panis king of Calcides, or as M das did mudge Pan the piper before Apollo the god of musicke. Hard is it to iudge of men, whether the bearded man, or the beardlesse man is to be preferred, the long haire or the short haire to bee esteemed: for vnder straunge habite lureke hidden qualities, for vnder a ragged cloake (as the Greeke prouerb is) lyeth wisdome as secretly, as vnder a veluet gowne."

J. H.

¶ Old Musical Airs.

i. *

"Aprill is in my Mistris' face,
And July in hir eyes hath place:
Within hir bosome is September,
But in hir heart a cold December.

In dewe of roses steeping

ij.

Hir louely cheekes, Lycoris thus satt weeping:
Ah Dorus falce, that hast my hart bereft me,

And now vnkind hast left mee:

[thee?

Heare, alas! O heare! ay mee cannot my bewty mou

Pitty then, pitty mee, because I loue thee:

Ay mee, thou skorn'st the more I pray thee,

And this thou doest to slaie me:

Ah, then doe kill me, and vaunt thee:

Yet my ghost still shall haunt thee.

iij.

Now is the gentle season freshly flowring,

To sing and play, and daunce while May endureth :
And woo and wed toe, that sweet delight procureth.

iv.

The fields abroad with spangled flowres are guilded,
The meades are mantled and closes,

In May each bush arayed and sweet wild roses;
The Nightingale hir bowre hath gayly builded:
And full of kindely lust, and loues inspiring,

I loue, I loue, (she sings), hark, her mate desiring.

v.

Come louers follow me and leaue this weeping,
See where the louely little God sweetly lies a sleeping:
Soft then, softly for feare wee wake him,

And to his bowe he take him;

"Madrigalls to foure voyces newly published by Thomas Morley. The first booke. In London by Thomas Est in Aldersgate street at the signe of the black horse. M.D.X.C.I.V. Cantus. 4to. Contains twenty songs.

O then

O then if he but spie vs,
Whether shall we then flye vs.

And if he come vpon vs,

Out, well a-way; then are we woe-begone vs :
Hence then, away; follow mee, dispatch vs.

And that a pace, ere he wake, for feare hee catch vs.

vi.

O sweet, alas! what say you? ay me that face discloses,
The scarlet blush of sweet vermillion roses :

And yet, alas! I know not, if such a crimson staining,
Be for loue, be for loue, or disdaining:

But if of loue it grows not, bee it disdain conceiued,
To see vs of loue's fruits so long bereued.

vii.

Hark, iolly shepheards hark; hark you yon lusty ringing; Hark, how cheerfully the bells dautice, the whilst the lads are springing:

Goo then, why sit wee heere thus delaying,

And all you merry lads and merry wanton lasses playing:
How gayly Flora leads it,

And sweetly treads it:

The woods and groves they ring lowdly resounding,

With Eccho sweet rebounding.

viii.

Hoe, who come here, all alone with bagpiping and drumming?
O, the Morris tis I see, tis the Moris daunce a coming.
Come ladies, come away, come, I say; O come quickly :
And see a bout how trim, how trim they daunce & trickly:
Hey, ther again; hey ho, ther again; how the bells they shake it!
Now, for our town, hey ho! now for our town ther and take it.
Soft a while, not away so fast, they melt them: [them.
Piper, be hang'd awhile! knaue, looke the dauncers swelt
Out ther, you come to far, to far you come; I say in:
Ther giue the hobby horse more room to play, to play in.

ix.

Dye now my heart from thy delight exiled,
Thy loue is dead, and all our hope beguiled:
O Death, vnkind and cruell,

To rob the world of that hir fairest iewell:

Now shoot at me and spare not,

Kill me, I care not;

Think not, o Death, thy dart shall pain me,
Why shouldst thou here against my will retain mee?
O heare a dolfull wretches crying,

Or I dye for want of dying.

X.

Say gentle nymphs that tread these mountains,
Whilst sweedy you sit playing,

Saw you my sweet Daphne straying,

Along your cristall fountains?

If you chance to meet hir,

Kisse hir, and kindly greet bir:

Then these sweet garlands take hir,

And say from me, I never will forsake bir.

xi. *

Lady, let me behold euer your beauty,

And seeke yee not from me so to estrang it,
Since time to come may chang it.

xij.

Fine dainty girle delightsome,

You be my Loadstarre lightsome;

To you my hart ay turneth,

When in the tempest of fierce loue it burneth.

xiij.

White lillies be her cheeks and shamfast roses;

Her eyes two comets blazing,

Come down from heauen with beauties grace amazing.

xiv.t

My hart why hast thou taken

And forgot, and forsaken,

* Canzonets, or little short songs to Foure voyces: celected out of the best and approued Italian Authors. By Thomas Morley, Gent. of ber Moiesties Chappell. Altus. Imprinted at London by Peter Short, dwelling on Bredstreet hill, at the signe of the Star, & are there to be sold. 1597. Title in the centre of a border, with figures of morality, used, I believe, for Queen Elizabeth's prayers. Dedicated by Morley" to the worshipfvll Maister Henrie Tapsfield, Citizen and Grocer, of the Cittie of London-I hartily intreat you to accept these poore Canzonets, by me collected from diuers excellent Italian Authours, for the honest recreation of yourselfe and others."

This and xv have the name of Thomas Morley prefixed as author.

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