Here is another aif of a great song that has gotten lost as a lousy 128 kbps, MP3 on SoundClick. I do not think you can find this song on any CD it is one of the wonderful ayres that time has forgotten.
robertjones
lute philip rosseter
first booke of aryers
Story behind the song
This is me singing (December 17, 2000) along with a midi file I made. On April 24, 2003 I added a Guitar track. Although I am sure many others can do it better justice this songs is not available on any CD or record as far as I know. Now, we are just passing the 400th anniversary of Robert Jones's books publication. Will these beautiful songs be hidden for another 400 years? 400 Hundred Year Old Songs You Can Not Hear Anywhere Else!
Lyrics
V. LED BY A STRONG DESIRE
Lead by a strong desire
To have a thing unseen,
Nothing could make me tire To be,
to be, to be where as I had been.
I got her sight, which made me think
My thirst was gone because I saw my drink.
Kept by the careful watch
Of more than hundred eyes,
I sought but could on catch
The thing, the thing, the thing she not denies.
'Tis better to be blind and fast
Than, hungry, see thy love and can not taste.
But lovers' eyes do wake
When others are at rest;
And in the night they slake
The fire, the fire, the fire of day's unrest.
Methinks that joy is of most worth
Which painful Time and passed fears bring forth.
Yet husbands do suppose To keep their wives by art,
And parents will disclose
By looks, by looks, by looks their children's heart.
As if they which have will to do
Had not the wit to blind such keepers too.
Peace then, ye aged fools,
That know yourselves so wise,
That from experience schools
Do think, do think, do think wit must arise.
Give young men leave to think, and say:
Your senses with your bodies do decay. Love ruleth like a god,
Whom earth keeps not in awe,
Nor fear of smarting rod Denounced , denounced, denounced by s law.
Give grave advice, but rest you there. Youth hath his course and will; and you youths were.
Think not by prying care
To pick loves secrets out;
If you suspicious are Yourselves, yourselves, yourselves resolve your doubt.
Who seek to know such deeds once done
Finds perjury before confession.