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Ayres and Dialogues
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As Cælia rested in the shade (A Pastorall Dialogue betwixt Cleon and Cælia)
Be gone, be gone thou perjured man (No Constancy in Man)
Cælia, thy bright Angel's face (The Celestiall Mistress)
Cloris your selfe you so excell (To the same Lady, singing the former Song)
Lovely Chloris through thine eyes (Love above Beauty)
Theseus, O Theseus, hark! but yet in vain (Ariadne deserted by Theseus Sittinge uppon a Rock in the Island Naxos thus Complaines): Ariadne's Lament in full
Theseus, O Theseus, hark! but yet in vain (Ariadne deserted by Theseus Sittinge uppon a Rock in the Island Naxos thus Complaines: Excerpt 1 variant
Theseus, O Theseus, hark! but yet in vain (Ariadne deserted by Theseus Sittinge uppon a Rock in the Island Naxos thus Complaines: Excerpt 2 variant
Venus, redress a wrong that's done (A Complaint Against Cupid): 1653 edition
Venus, redress a wrong that's done (A Complaint Against Cupid): MS variant
When thou, poor Excommunicate (To his Inconstant Mistress)
While I listen to thy voyce (To a Lady singing)
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Amarantha sweet and fair
Ariadne
As Caelia rested in the shade
Be gone, be gone thou perjur’d man
Caelia thy bright Angel’s face
Chloris your self you so excell
Come my Lucasta - mezzo-soprano
Come my Lucasta - tenor
A Dialogue on a Kiss
Fantasy
Give me more love, or more disdain
I long to sing the Siege of Troy
It is not that I love you lesse
Lovely Chloris though thine eyes
Till I beheld fair Caelia’s Face
Venus, redress a wrong (1653)
Venus, redress a wrong (manuscript variant)
When thou poor Excommunicate
While I listen to thy Voyce