And then there seems to be this: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/whatday.htm
by Thomas Campion with lyrics not unlike Stephen's, from "Richard Alison's An Howres Recreation in Musicke (1606)" Should I know who Mr. Alison is? Peter. On Wed, 28 May 2008, Stephen Fryer wrote: > Stewart McCoy wrote: > >> Do you mean "What is a day", which is no. 18 in Philip Rosseter's lute >> song collection, _A Booke of Ayres_ (London, 1601)? > > Different song. > > If you had asked me a month ago I had all the details to hand, but I had a > computer crash and haven't recovered all the files yet :( I have them > somewhere in my papers but .... > > The tablature is in Jane Pickering's lute book. The words are as follows: > > What if a day or a month or a year > Crown thy delight with a thousand wisht contentings? > Cannot the chance of a night or an hour > Cross thee again with as many sad lamentings? > > Wanton pleasures, doting love > Are but shadowes flying. > Fortune, honoure, beutee, youth > Are but blossoms dieing. > > All our joies > Are but toyes > Idle thoughts deceiving. > None haue pow'r > Of an hour > Of their life's bereaving. > > Stephen Fryer > > ************************************************** > The more answers I find, the more questions I have > ************************************************** > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > the next auto-quote is: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. (Charles Darwin) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
