Musick to heare, why hear’st thou musick sadly?
Sweets with sweets warre not, ioy delights in ioy:
Why lou’st thou that which thou receaust not gladly,
Or else receau’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well tuned sounds,
By vnions married, do offend thine eare,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singlenesse the parts that thou should’st beare:
Marke how one string sweet husband to an other,
Strikes each in each by mutuall ordering;
Resembling sier, and child, and happy mother,
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechlesse song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee, thou single wilt proue none.
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee, „Thou single wilt prove none.”
In laudem Musice et opprobrium Contemptorii eiusdem
1
Musicke to heare, why hearest thou Musicke sadly
Sweete with sweetes warre not, Joy delightes in Joy
Why louest thou that which thou receauest not gladly
or else receauest with pleasure thine annoy
2
If the true Concord of well tuned Soundes
By Vnions maried doe offend thy eare
They doe but sweetlie chide thee, whoe confoundes
In singlenes a parte, which thou shouldst beare
3
Marke howe one stringe, sweet husband to another
Strikes each on each, by mutuall orderinge
Resemblinge Childe, & Syer, and happy Mother
Which all in one, this single note dothe singe
whose speechlesse songe beeinge many seeming one
Singes this to thee, Thou single, shalt proue none