Turn Amaryllis, to thy swain: Thomas Brewer's setting of a song from James Shirley's play, Love Tricks, or The School of Complement, c1625.
From Catch that catch can (John Playford, 1667)

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To Shorten Winter's Sadness.
A #16thCentury English #madrigal from Thomas Weelkes' Ballets & #Madrigals, 1598.

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