Ballads, English -- Texts; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Songs, English -- England -- Texts
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone (Farmer)
Farewell, false Love, the oracle of lies (Byrd)
Farewell, my joy! (Weelkes)
Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new (John Dowland)
Fire that must flame is with apt fuel fed (Campion)
Flora gave me fairest flowers (Wilbye)
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet (Campion and Rosseter)
Fond wanton youths make Love a God (Jones)
From Citheron the warlike boy is fled (Byrd)
From Fame's desire, from Love's delight retired (John Dowland)
Give Beauty all her right (Campion)
Go, crystal tears! like to the morning showers (John Dowland)
Go, turn away those cruel eyes (Egerton MS. 2013)
Good men, show! if you can tell (Campion)
Ha! ha! ha! this world doth pass (Weelkes)
Happy he (Jones)
Happy, O! happy he, who not affecting (Wilbye)
Have I found her? O rich finding (Pilkington)
Heigh ho! chill go to plough no more (Mundy)
How many things as yet (Maynard)
How shall I then describe my Love (Ford)
I always loved to call my lady Rose (Lichfild)
I have house and land in Kent (Melismata)
I joy not in no earthly bliss (Byrd)
I live and yet methinks I do not breathe (Wilbye)
I marriage would forswear (Maynard)
I only am the man (Maynard)
I saw my Lady weep (John Dowland)
I sung sometime my thoughts and fancy's pleasure (Wilbye)
I weigh not Fortune's frown nor smile (Gibbons)
I will no more come to thee (Morley)
If fathers knew but how to leave (Jones)
If I urge my kind desires (Campion and Rosseter)
If my complaints could passions move (John Dowland)
If thou long'st so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love (Campion)
If women could be fair and never fond (Byrd)
In crystal towers and turrets richly set (Byrd)
In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be (Coprario)
In midst of woods or pleasant grove (Mundy)
In pride of May (Weelkes)
In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood (Jones)
In the merry month of May (Este)
Inconstant Laura makes me death to crave (Greaves)
Injurious hours, whilst any joy doth bless me (Lichfild)
Is Love a boy,--what means he then to strike (Byrd)
It was the frog in the well (Melismata)
Jack and Joan they think no ill (Campion)
Kind are her answers (Campion)
Kind in unkindness, when will you relent (Campion and Rosseter)
Lady, the birds right fairly (Weelkes)
Lady, the melting crystal of your eye (Greaves)
Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting (Wilbye)
Let not Chloris think, because (Danyel)
Let not the sluggish sleep (Byrd)
Let us in a lovers' round (Mason and Earsden)
Like two proud armies marching in the field (Weelkes)
Lo! country sport that seldom fades (Weelkes)
Lo! when back mine eye (Campion)
Long have I lived in Court (Maynard)
Love is a bable (Jones)
Love not me for comely grace (Wilbye)
Love's god is a boy (Jones)
Love winged my hopes and taught me how to fly (Jones)
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