XIIII. What is our life?

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T:XIIII. What is our life?
T:ALTUS.
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? a * play of pas- sion,  
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w:of pas- si- on, What is our * * life? A 
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w:play of pas- * sion, Our mirth 
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w:the mu- sicke, the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on, 
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w:Our mirth the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on, Our 
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w:mirth the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on,
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w:Our moth- ers wombes, our moth- ers wombes the * 
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w:tyr- ing, the * tyr- ing hous- es be,
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w:Where we are drest, are drest for this short 
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w:Com- e- * dy, Heaven the Ju- di- cious sharpe 
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w:spec- ta- tor, spec- ta- tor is, That
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w:sits and markes, that sits and markes, still 
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w:who doth act a- misse, that sits and markes
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w:markes still who doth act a- misse, Our graves, 
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w:that hide us from the sear- * * ching Sun,
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w:Are like drawn cur- taynes when the 
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w:play is done, when the play is * done,
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w:when the * play is done, is * *done, are 
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w:like drawn cur- taynes when the * play is done, the
^c d2 c d2 d e2 g ^f2 g2 z2 z2 
w:play is * done, Thus march we play- ing, 
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w:thus march we play- * ing, Thus march we play- ing
z2 z e f>e d ^c d2 z e g>f e d ^c d 
w:Thus march we play- * ing, Thus march we play- ing to our 
a>g f> e d>c =B A 
w:lat- est rest, thus march we play- ing 
e> d ^c> =B A4 z2 z2 z d 
w:to our lat- est rest, thus 
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w:march we play- ing to our lat- est 
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w:rest, One- ly we dye in ear- nest,
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w:that's no jest. we dye in ear- nest, that's no jest.

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