Ballads, English -- Texts; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Songs, English -- England -- Texts
Take here my heart, I give it thee for ever (Weelkes)
Take time while time doth last (Farmer)
The fly she sat in shamble-row (Deuteromelia)
The Gods have heard my vows (Weelkes)
The lark, linnet and nightingale to sing some say are best (Pammelia)
The love of change hath changed the world throughout (Carlton)
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall (John Dowland)
The man of life upright (Campion and Rosseter)
The greedy hawk with sudden sight of lure (Byrd)
The match that's made for just and true respects (Byrd)
The Nightingale so pleasant and so gay (Byrd)
The Nightingale so soon as April bringeth (Bateson)
The peaceful western wind (Campion)
There is a garden in her face (Campion)
There is a lady sweet and kind (Ford)
There were three Ravens sat on a tree (Melismata)
Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down (Jones)
Think'st thou to seduce me then with words that have no meaning (Campion)
Thou art but young, thou say'st (Wilbye)
Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white (Campion and Rosseter)
Thou pretty bird, how do I see (Danyel)
Though Amaryllis dance in green (Byrd)
Though my carriage be but careless (Weelkes)
Though your strangeness frets my heart (Jones)
Thrice blessed be the giver (Farnaby)
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air (Campion)
Thus I resolve and Time hath taught me so (Campion)
Thus saith my Chloris bright (Wilbye)
Thus saith my Galatea (Morley)
To his sweet lute Apollo sang the motions of the spheres (Campion)
To plead my faith, where faith hath no reward (Robert Dowland)
To shorten winter's sadness (Weelkes)
Toss not my soul, O Love, 'twixt hope and fear (John Dowland)
Turn all thy thoughts to eyes (Campion)
Unto the temple of thy beauty (Ford)
Upon a hill the bonny boy (Weelkes)
Upon a summer's day Love went to swim (Byrd)
Vain men! whose follies make a god of love (Campion)
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