Select Ayres and Dialogues (Lawes, Henry)

• Book 2:
• English airs for solo voice and continuo

1. Lawes: A Storm
2. Lawes: No Reprieve
3. Lawes: A Tale out of Anacreon
4. Lawes: To his Mistress going to Sea
5. Lawes: Venus redress a wrong
6. Lawes: Careless of love and free from fears
7. Lawes: Gaze not on swans
8. Lawes: Dearest, do not now delay me
9. Lawes: Give me more love or more disdain
10. Lawes: It is not that I love you less
11. Lawes: Am I despised because you say
12. Lawes: Cloris since first our calm of peace
13. Lawes: Yes, yes, 'tis Chloris sings
14. Lawes: O how I hate thee now
15. Lawes: If when the sun at noon displays
16. Lawes: Seek not to know my love
17. Lawes: I prithee sweet to me be kind
18. Lawes: Canst thou love me and yet doubt
19. Lawes: A lover once I did espie
20. Lawes: Come, come, thou glorious object of my sight
21. Lawes: Pleasure, beauty, youth attend ye
22. Lawes: The Lark
23. Lawes: Amarillis tear thy hair
24. Lawes: What shall I do? I've lost my heart
25. Lawes: Ladies, fly from love's smooth tale
26. Lawes: I laid me down upon a pillow soft
27. Lawes: You think that love can convey
28. Lawes: I loved thee once, I'll love no more
29. Lawes: Death cannot yet extinguish that entire pure flame
30. Lawes: When this fly lived she used to play
31. Lawes: I was foretold your rebel sex
32. Lawes: When thou, fair Celia! Like the setting sun
33. Lawes: Come, come, sad turtle, mateless, moaning
34. Lawes: Behold and listen whilst the fair breaks
35. Lawes: No more of tears, I’ve now no more
36. Lawes: The Nightingale
37. Lawes: That flame is born of earthly fire
38. Lawes: Whether so gladly and so fast
39. Lawes: Transcendent beauty! thou that art light
40. Lawes: Weep not, my dear, for I shall go
41. Lawes: On this swelling bank
42. Lawes: Delicate beauty, why should you disdain
43. Lawes: Come, my Lucatia, since we see
44. Lawes: But that I knew before we met
45. Lawes: The Rose
46. Lawes: Tell me no more ‘tis love
47. Lawes: Can so much beauty own a mind?
48. Lawes: Art thou in love? It cannot be
49. Lawes: ‘Tis Christmas now (A Glee at Christmas)
50. Lawes: Where shall a man an object find
51. Lawes: Orpheus Hymn
52. Wilson: Why, lovely boy, why fly’st thou me
53. Wilson: Black maid, complain not that I fly
54. Wilson: When I am dead, and thou wouldst try
55. Wilson: Boast not, blind boy, that I’m thy prize
56. Anonymous: Still to be neat, still to be dressed
57. Coleman: Wilt thou be gone, thou heartless man?
58. Lanier: The Marigold
59. Lanier: No more shall meads be decked with flowers
60. Lanier: Fire, fire, lo here I burn in such desire
61. Lanier: No, no, I tell thee no
62. Lanier: Stay, silly heart, and do not break
63. Lanier: The Lilly
64. John Goodgroome: For that one glance I wounded lie
65. Ives: Be not proud, pretty one
66. Alphonso Marsh: Wake all ye dead, what hoo!
67. Alphonso Marsh: Sure ‘twas a dream, how long, fond man
68. Alphonso Marsh: That herald he was but a dull ass
69. Alphonso Marsh: If you will love, know this to be
70. Alphonso Marsh: Ah! Cloris, would the gods allow
71. Alphonso Marsh: Oft have I searched both court and town
72. Alphonso Marsh: Up, ladies, up, prepare your taking faces
73. Alphonso Marsh: Fall dew of slumbers in a gentle stream
74. William Gregory: Indeed, I never was but once so mad
75. Roger Hill: Cloris, ‘twill be for eithers rest
76. Roger Hill: Admit, thou darling of mine eyes
77. Roger Hill: No more will I contemplate love
78. Anonymous: She that would not, I would choose
79. Moss: Awake my lute, arise my string
80. Moss: Cruel Celia, did you know
81. John Goodgroome: Will Cloris cast her sun-bright eye
82. Playford: Thou sensed to me a heart was crowned
83. Playford: Yes, I could love, could I but find
84. Anonymous: Not that I wish my mistress or more
85. Hilton: Well, well, ‘tis true, I now am fallen in love
86. Playford: No more, no more, fond love
87. Edward Coleman: The glories of our birth and state
88. Lawes: Beauties, have ye seen a toy
89. Playford: Though you are young and I am old
90. Anonymous: I never knew what Cupid meant
91. Thomas Blagrave: What conscience say is it in thee
92. Lawes: Farewell despairing hopes, I’ll love no more
93. Lawes: If still Theora you wear this disguise
94. Lawes: Clear stream, who dost with equal pace
95. Lawes: Ah, ah, mighty love!
96. Lawes: Strike, strike, sweet Licoris
97. Lawes: I had a Cloris, my delight
98. Lawes: And must our tempers ever be at war?
99. Lawes: O fairest lights! whose clear aspect
100. Lawes: Madam, your beauty I confess
101. Lawes: Disdain not, fair once, since we know
102. Lawes: Though Silvia’s eyes a flame could raise
103. Lawes: You ask, my dear, if I be well
104. Lawes: Love me no more, or else with scorn
105. Lawes: Cupid’s no god, a wanton child
106. Lawes: If thou wilt know the reason why
107. Lawes: When I taste my goblet deep
108. Roger Hill: The thirsty earth sucks up the rain (The Greek’s Song)
109. Roger Hill: Poor Celia once was very fair

• Italian airs for 1-2 voices and continuo (specifies theorbo)

1. Anonymous: Dove corri mio cori
2. Anonymous: Intenerite voi, lagrime mie
3. Anonymous: Occhi belle o’ve imperai
4. Rossi: Ah che lasso crederò
5. Anonymous: S’io morrò, che dira
6. Vittori: Amanti a consiglio from Arie a voce sola
7. Rossi: Si tocchi tamburo from Il palazzo incantato (1642)
8. Anonymous: Si guarde che puo
9. Anonymous: Fugite l’inganni d’amore
10. Anonymous: De’quei begli occhi

• English dialogues for 2 voices and continuo

1. Lawes: Sweet lovely nymph! whose eyes do move me
2. Jenkins: Why sighs thou Shepherd?
3. Lawes: Haste you nymphs, make haste away
4. Lawes: Charon, o Charon, draw thy boat to th’shore
5. Lawes: Charon, o Charon! hear a wretch oppressed
6. Lawes: This mossy-bank they pressed
7. Ives: Shepherd well met, I prithee tell

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• Book 3:
• Airs for 1 voice and continuo

1. Lawes: See, see! my Chloris
2. Lawes: Oft have I sworn I'd love no more
3. Lawes: Chloris, when e're you do intend
4. Lawes: In love? away, you do me wrong
5. Lawes: Come fil's a cup of sherry
6. Lawes: What? wilt thou pine or fall away
7. Lawes: Go young man, let my heart alone
8. Lawes: I prethee love take heed
9. Lawes: Did I once say that thou wert fair
10. Lawes: Take heed bold lover, do not look
11. Lawes: Beauty once blasted with the frost
12. Lawes: Amintor's Welladay
13. Lawes: O now I find 'tis nought but fate
14. Lawes: Go fair enchantress
15. Lawes: When shall I see my captive heart
16. Lawes: Black as thy lovely eyes and hair
17. Lawes: Let me alone, I'll love no more
18. Lawes: Alas poor Cupid! thou art blind?
19. Lawes: Love thee? Goodsooth not I
20. Lawes: Fond woman, thou mistak'st thy mark
21. Lawes: Though thou hast wit and beauty too
22. Lawes: See, Chloris, see, how nature brings
23. Lawes: Fain would I love, but that I fear
24. Lawes: Why up so early in the world
25. Lawes: Forgive me love, what I have done
26. Lawes: Have you e're seen the morning sun
27. Lawes: Stay, stay, ye greedy merchants, stay
28. Lawes: O tell me love! O tell me fate!
29. Lawes: As sad Amintor in a meadow lay
30. Lawes: Mourn, mourn with me, all true enamored hearts

• Dialogues for 2 voices and continuo

1. Lawes: Among thy fancies, tell me this
2. Lawes: I love a Nymph
3. Lawes: Come, come, Amaryllis, I am tied by oath
4. Lawes: Awake, awake, fair Floramell

• Short airs for 1, 2, or 3 voices

1. Lawes: Once Venus cheeks that shamed the morn
2. Lawes: I have praised with all my skill
3. Lawes: When doth love set forth desire?
4. Lawes: Trust the form of ayrie things
5. Lawes: Dear, throw that flattering glass away
6. Lawes: Do not delay me, though you have the power
7. Lawes: If you can find a heart sweet love
8. Lawes: Sure thou framed wert by art
9. Lawes: Go Phoebus, clear thy face
10. Lawes: I prethee send me back my heart