Masque and entertainment songs

Songs are numbered according to their order in the sources, not necessarily the order in which they were actually performed. Attributions to composers rather than librettists are indicated by an asterisk (*).

• Arne, T.* – Alfred:
  6. Rule, Britannia! (lyrics). The original arrangement, not that of the modern patriotic song.
• Browne, W. – Circe and Ulysses:
  1. Steer hither, steer, your winged pines (lyrics).
• Campion, T.:
  • Entertainment at Brougham Castle:
    1. Tune thy cheerful voice to mine – G. Mason (lyrics).
    2. Now is the time – G. Mason (lyrics).
    3. The King’s goodnight – G. Mason (lyrics).
    4. Come, follow me, my wandering mates – G. Mason (lyrics).
    5. Dido was the Carthage Queen – G. Mason (lyrics).
    6. Robin is a lovely lad – G. Mason (lyrics).
    7. The shadows darkening our intents – G. Mason (lyrics).
    8. Truth sprung from heaven – G. Mason (lyrics).
    9. The farewell song – G. Mason (lyrics).
    10. The lords’ welcome – J. Earsden (lyrics).
  • Lord Hay’s masque:
    1. Now hath Flora robbed her bowers – T. Campion (lyrics).
    3. Move now with measured sound – T. Campion (lyrics).
  • The lords’ masque:
    1. Come away; bring thy golden theft – T. Campion (lyrics).
    3. Woo her and win her – T. Campion (lyrics).
  • The squires’ masque:
    1. Bring away this sacred tree – N. Lanier (lyrics).
    2. Go, happy man – J. Coprario 🎤 (lyrics).
    3. While dancing rests – J. Coprario 🎤 (lyrics).
    5. Come ashore – J. Coprario 🎤 (lyrics).
• Carey, H.* – Britannia, or, The royal lovers:
  • He comes, the hero comes! (lyrics).
• Coleman, C.* – The King and Queen’s entertainment at Richmond:
  1. Did not you once, Lucinda, vow (lyrics)
• Davenant, W.:
  • Britannia triumphans:
    2. Britanocles, the great and good appears – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    4. Song of Galatea – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    5. The valediction – W. Lawes (lyrics).
  • The triumphs of the Prince d’Amour:
    3. Whither so gladly and so fast – H. Lawes (lyrics).
    6. Behold, how this conjunction thrives! – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    7. The song of valediction – W. Lawes (lyrics).
• Dowland, J.*:
  • E. Home and T. Howard’s wedding masque (lost):
    1. Up, merry mates! (lyrics).
    2. Welcome, black Night (lyrics).
    3. Cease these false sports (lyrics).
  • unidentified masque:
    • Humour, say what makest thou here (lyrics).
• The entertainment at Elvetham:
  3. In the merry month of May – J. Baldwin (lyrics). This song has been set to music several times, with J. Wilson’s setting being the most popular.
  4. Eliza is the fairest queen – E. Johnson (lyrics).
  5. Come again, fair nature’s treasure – E. Johnson (lyrics).
• Humfrey, P.* – unidentified masque:
  1. I pass all my hours (lyrics).
  2. A lover I am (lyrics).
• Johnson, R.* – unidentified masque:
  • For ever let thy heavenly tapers (lyrics).
• Jonson, B.:
  • The Fortunate Isles and their union:
    3. Come, noble nymphs – W. Webb (lyrics, alternate setting). Perhaps one of these settings was intended for the cancelled performance of the masque of Neptune’s Triumph.
  • The Gypsies metamorphosed:
    1. From the famous Peak of Derby – R. Johnson (lyrics).
    3. To the old, long life (lyrics).
    4. Why, this is a sport (lyrics).
  • The hue and cry after Cupid:
    1. Beauties, have ye seen this toy – H. Lawes (lyrics).
    2. Why stays the bridegroom to invade – A. Ferrabosco II 🎤 (lyrics).
  • Love freed from ignorance and folly:
    4. Oh, what a fault – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    5. Senses by unjust force banished – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics). Omitted from the printed text of the masque.
    6. How near to good is what is fair! – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
  • The masque of augurs:
    5. Do not expect to hear of all – N. Lanier (lyrics).
  • The masque of beauty:
    2. So beauty on the waters stood – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    3. If all these Cupids – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    4. It was no policy of court – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    5. Yes, were the Loves – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    6. Had those that dwell in error foul – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
  • The masque of blackness:
    2. Come away, come away – A. Ferrabosco II 🎤 (lyrics).
  • The masque of queens:
    2. When all the ages of the earth – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
  • Oberon, the faery prince:
    1.  Buzz, quoth the blue fly – E. Nelham (lyrics). A catch.
    6. Nay, nay, you must not stay – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
    8. Gentle knights – A. Ferrabosco II (lyrics).
  • A private entertainment at Highgate:
    1. See, see, oh, see, who here is come a-maying! – M. Peerson (lyrics).
  • The vision of delight:
    • I was not wearier – N. Lanier (lyrics).
• The masque of flowers:
  • Ahay for and a ho (lyrics).
• The masque of mountebanks:
  1. What is’t you lack (lyrics).
  2. Is any deaf? (lyrics).
  3. Maids of the chamber (lyrics).
  4. Is any so spent (lyrics).
• Milton, J. – Comus:
  1. From the heavens now I fly – H. Lawes (lyrics).
  2. Sweet Echo – H. Lawes (lyrics).
  3. Sabrina fair – H. Lawes (lyrics).
  5. Back, shepherds, back – H. Lawes (lyrics).
  6. Noble lord and lady bright – H. Lawes (lyrics).
  7. Now my task is smoothly done – H. Lawes (lyrics).
• The Queen’s entertainment at Sudeley:
  2. My heart and tongue were twins – J. Dowland (lyrics).
• Shirley, J.:
  • Cupid and Death:
    2. Victorious men of Earth – C. Gibbons (lyrics).
  • The triumph of peace:
    1. Hence, ye profane – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    2. Wherefore do my sisters stay? – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    3. Think not I could absent myself – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    7. Why do you dwell so long – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    8. In envy to the Night – W. Lawes (lyrics).
    9. Come away – W. Lawes (lyrics). The only short fragment of the song that has survived.

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