XIIII. What is our life?

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T:XIIII. What is our life?
T:QUINTUS
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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N:Original clef, C on second line
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L:1/4
K:D min
D4 A, A, F3 E/ D/ E3 D D4 ^C2 D2 z2 z2 
w:What is our life? a * play of pas- * sion, 
A4 G3 F/ E/ F2 E2 A,2 z2 E4 D2 ^C D2 ^C A,4 
w:a play of * pas- * sion, What is our * * life? 
A,6 =B,2 ^C4 D4 z2 E2 A6 G2 F6 E2 D D G4 F2 E4
w:What is our life? What is our life? a play of pas- * sion,
z2 z E E E F A G2 E2 ^F>F G4 z A A A B2 G c>B A2 G A2
w:Our mirth the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on, Our mirth the mu- sicke of di- vi- si- on,
z8 z4 z2 z G B A G> G C F F E F2
w:Our moth- ers wombes the tyr- ing hous- es be,
z2 z8 z2 A4 A, =B, ^C2 D2 E2 F2 E2 ^C D E2 
w:Heaven the Ju- di- cious sharpe spec- ta- tor * is, 
F2 E E D4 ^C2 D2 E2 F E/ D/ E E 
w:Heaven the Ju- di- cious sharpe spec- ta- tor * is, That
A =B c c _B B A3 G G2  
w:sits and markes still who doth act a- misse,
A F2 E F C D C B, C A, c 
w:That sits and markes still who doth act a- misse, still 
d B A2 z D2 ^C D4 z2 C2 F4 
w:who doth act a- * misse, Our graves, 
F2 G4 F2 E2 F2 F2 E2 F F G4 F2 E C F4 E2 F2  
w:that hide us from the search- ing Sun, that hide us from the search- ing Sun,
A2 G2 F2 E3 E F D d3 d c4
w:Are like drawn cur- taynes when the play is done,
B2 A4 G2 G3 F F4 E2 A3 G/ F/ E2 z2
w:Are like drawn cur- taynes when the play is * done,
z8 z8 zD D E F>G A3 G/ F/ E E ^F2 z2
w:Are like drawn cur- taynes when the * play is done,
z4 z2 B,2 A, D ^C2 D2 z2 z E D G F2 E A G2
w:Thus march we play- ing, thus march we play- ing, Thus march
F2 E3 F E/ D/ D2 ^C D> C F E D2 
w:we play- ing to our lat- est rest, our lat- est rest, 
z2 z D G> F E D2 ^C D z z2
w:Thus march we play- * * ing,
z4 z E A> G ^F E D E/ F/ G3 F
w:Thus march we play- ing to our * lat- est
E D G3 F E E D4 E2 
w: rest, One- ly we dye in ear- nest, 
F4 E2 F6 F G A2 B2 A3 A A16|]
w:that's no jest, in * ear- nest, that's no jest.

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