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

 

No.123 (William Byrd) "How shall a yongman" = Psalme 119

Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs No.4

bar1-6 : Introduction

bar7-12 : How shall a yongman proane to yll, clense his unbridled harte?

bar13-18 : If that thy lawe, O Lorde he doe, all frailtie set a parte.

bar18-24 : Embrace with settled mynde, & lerne thy worde wt care to kepe:

bar25-35, 35-47 : And search to fynde with humble sprite, thy iudgments that are depe.

 

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