XIIII. What is our life?

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T:XIIII. What is our life?
T:CANTUS.
T:From The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5.Parts: 
T:apt for Viols and Voyces. 1612.
N:Poet, Walter Raleigh 1552-1618
C:Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625
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w:What is our life? our * * life? a play of * 
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w:pas- sion, What is our life? 
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w:What is our life? our life? a play of pas- * sion,
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w:Our mirth the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on, of * di- vi- si- on,
z2 z8 z4 z d f e d2 A c2 =B c2 d2 G2 
w:Our moth- ers wombes the tyr- ing hous- es be,
z8 z2 z c A A d4 G2 B2 A2 G2 F2 E2
w:Where we are drest for this short Com- e- dy,
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w:Heaven the Ju- di- cious sharpe spec- ta- tor is,
z8 z4 z2 z e f d e> e d d ^c> e d2
w:That sits and markes still who doth act a- misse,
z2 z4 z2 z A B G A> G 
w:That sits and markes still 
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w:who doth act a- misse,
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w:Our graves, our graves, that hide us from the search- ing * Sun,
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w:Are like drawn cur- taynes when the play is done,
z8 z2 A3 G/ F/ c3 B/ A/ d3 c/ B/ c3 B A3
w:When the * play is * done, the * play is done, 
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w:Are * like drawn cur- taynes * when the play is done,
z2 z2 z A B2 G2 F> G A2 z B A d ^c2 d2
w:Thus march we play- * ing, thus march we play- ing, 
z4 z G A c2 A2 A B B A A A2
w:Thus march we play- ing to our lat- est rest,
z e f> e d c e d> c =B A> G 
w:Thus march wee play- ing, Thus march wee * play- ing  
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w:to our la- * * * * * * test rest,
z2 z A d> c B A G A B2 B2 A3 G F F B4 A2 
w:Thus march we play- ing to our lat- est rest, One- ly we dye, we
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w:dye in ear- nest that's no jest. We dye in * ear- nest, that's no * Jest.

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