Canzonets to three voices

Song Cycle by Henry Youll (flourished 1608)

?. Awake, sweet Love! ’tis time to rise
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Awake, sweet Love! ’tis time to rise:
Phœbus is risen in the east,
Spreading his beams on those fair eyes
Which are enclosed with Nature’s rest.
Awake, awake from heavy sleep
Which all thy thoughts in silence keep!

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?. Once I thought to die for love
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
  Once I thought to die for love,
    Till I found that women prove
  Traitors in their smiling:
They say men unconstant be,
But they themselves Jove change, we see,
  And all is but beguiling.

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?. Each day of thine
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Each day of thine, sweet month of May,
    Love makes a solemn holyday:
  I will perform like duty,
Since thou resemblest every way
  Astræa, Queen of Beauty.

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Total word count: 100