SONGS BY LUTENIST Com
POSERS
Sung by HERBERT HEYNER
(Baritone)
TOBIAS HUME 'S song comes from a mixed set of vocal and string pieces, called Musicall Humors. This one sings the praises of tobacco, and makes some quaint comparisons between it and love.
' Is it a forgery ? How often has this query been anxiously asked, and how difficult it is, as a rule, to answer it. In his talk at 9.15 this evening Mr. Robert Saudek will have much of interest to say on this intriguing question.
GREAVES' song draws a pretty picture of Celestina singing and playing under the olive trees.
BARTLETT celebrates in the first of his Bsongs the beauties of a lady, ' The fairest of her days,' and in the next he sets a verse of George Peele , inquiring what is love, smartly answering that it is a sting, a fire ; summing up that ' love's darling lies in ladies' eyes.'
Of his other two songs, Whither runneth is a gay impression of a coy maid and her suitor playing at catch. The last song is in very different mood. The lover has found the lass faithless. She pretended to be serious, and now says she never was in earnest. ' Like feathers in the wind '—thus he dismisses female promises.
A NOTHER of Peele's poems is set by Dowland. It tells of the beauty of old age. Its thought is
Beauty, strength, youth arp flowers but fadins seen,
Duty, faith, love are roots and ever green.
ROSSETER'S song complains of women's inconstancy. ' I was thus unhappy born, and ordained to be her scorn,' laments the lover, though he cherishes still a hope that she may repent.
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