date : 1585?
main copiest : Robert Dow the younger(1554 - 1588)
detail date : please see DIAMM site
No.96 (William Byrd) "When I was otherwise"
According to the CPDL, this song is included in "Songs of Sundrie Natures" (1589), but there seems to be no easy way to see the original, so I give up.
bar1-6 : When I was otherwise then now I am,
I loued more but skilled not so much,
bar6-13 : faire words & smiles, could have contented than,
my simple age and ignorance was such:
bar13-20 : But at the length, experience made me wonder,
yt(=that) harts and tongues did lodge so far a sundr.
bar20-30 : But at the length, exp(er)ience made me wondr,
yt(=that) harts & tongues did lodge so far a sundr.
http://aeolianconsort.chakin.com/Dow_partbooks.htm#No_80
