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Henry Lichfield
(fl.1613)
Ay me, that life should yet remain
(S.S.A.T.B.)
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Of Lichfield little is known, except that the dedication of his sole printed set of madrigals (from which this item comes) shows him to have been in the service of Lady Cheyney of Toddington, Beds.
Lyrics: Anon, probably the composer
Ay me, that life should yet remain,
When heart and living spirits are bereft me.
Ay me, than thus to live in pain,
It better were no life at all were left me.
Then die betimes, that when my heart return
That may die too, and so I cease to mourn.
Ay me, that life should yet remain,
When heart and living spirits are bereft me.
Ay me, than thus to live in pain,
It better were no life at all were left me.
Then die betimes, that when my heart return
That may die too, and so I cease to mourn.