ALFONSO FERRABOSCO, SO BEAUTIE ON THE WATERS STOOD
(Ayres, 1609, no. 21)
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So beau tie on the wat ers stood,
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when Loue had seu er’d earth fromfloud, So when hee
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Ferrabosco, So Beautie on the waters stood, p. 2
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part ed ayre from fire, hee did with con cord all in spire,
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And then a mo tion he them taught, that el der then him selfe
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Ferrabosco, So Beautie on the waters stood, p. 3
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was thought, which thought was yet the childe of earth, for loue is
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eld er then his birth. birth.
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