date : 1585?
main copiest : Robert Dow the younger(1554 - 1588)
detail date : please see DIAMM site 

 

No.102c (Richard Edwards ?) Tertia Parte "All ye that lyue"

 

bar1-7 : All ye that lyue on earth and haue youre may as will

             reioyce in may as I doe nowe & vze(?) yos(= those?) may wth still:

bar8-14 : Use may whiles that ye may for may hath but his tyme

               when all the fruit is gone yt is to late the tree to thyme.

bar15-24 : youre liking and youre lust ys fressh whiles may dooth last

                 take may in tyme when may is gone youre pleasantst tyme is past.

 

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