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<DATE>2014-03-03</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140110.apex.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; A gratification vnto Ma&s;ter Iohn Ca&s;e, for his learned booke, lately made in the prai&s;e of Mu&s;icke.</HEAD>
<HEAD>VI VOC. CANTVS SECVNDVS</HEAD>
<BYLINE>WILLIAM BYRD.</BYLINE>
<P><GAP DESC="music"> _LEt others pray&s;e what &s;eemes them be&s;t, I lyke his lines a&spcDash;boue the re&s;t, aboue the re&s;t, aboue the re&s;t, &repeat; who&s;e pen hath painted Mu&s;ickes pray&s;e, hath pain|ted &amp;c. he &s;oundly blames the &s;enceles foole, &amp; Barbarous Scithyan, of our dayes. our dayes&punc; and barbarous Scithyan of our dayes&punc; of our daies. He writes of Angells Armony, aboue the Harpe of Mercury, of Mercury, &repeat; he wrytes of &s;weetly turning Sphaeres, how Byrds &amp; Bea&s;ts &amp; wormes re&spcDash;ioyce, how Dolphyns lou'd A|rions voice, he makes a frame for Midas eares &repeat; for Mi&spcDash;das eares. Secunda pars. THere may the &s;olemne Stoycks finde, And that Rude Mar&s;ia wanteth &s;kil, wanteth &s;kill, again&s;t Apollos &s;weete con&spcDash;cent, the Nur&s;e of good, the &s;courge of ill. Let Enuy barke again&s;t the &s;tarres, let Folly &s;ayle which way &s;he plea&s;e, with him I wi&s;h my dayes to &s;pend, my dayes to &s;pe~d, who&s;e quill hath &s;toode fayre Mu&s;ickes frend, chief frend to peace, chief port of ea&s;e, of ea&s;e, chiefe port of ea&s;e, of ea&s;e, chiefe frend to peace, chief port of ea&s;e.</P>
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