date : 1585?
main copiest : Robert Dow the younger(1554 - 1588)
detail date : please see DIAMM site
No.102a (Richard Edwards ?) Prima parte "When May is in his prime"
The DIAMM report on whether or not this piece is by Edwards.
bar1-8 : When May is in his prime then may cach hart reioyce.
When may bedecks cath brainch wt green cath bynde straines foorth his voice.
bar9-15 : the lively sap creeps vp into the bloming thorne.
the flowers wt colde in prizon kept; nowe laugh the frost to skorne.
bar16-25 : All natures ynnpes trimmps while ioyfull may dath last.
When may is gone of all the yere, the pleasanntst tyme ys past.
http://aeolianconsort.chakin.com/Dow_partbooks.htm#No_100
