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ATTACH TO ALPHONSO FERRABOSCO'S 'AIRS': TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR by THOMAS CAMPION

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First Line: MUSIC'S RICH MASTER AND THE OFFSPRING
Last Line: BEYOND THINE OWN DESERTS CAN NEVER RAISE THEE.
Subject(s): FERRABOSCO, ALPHONSO (1575-1628);
MUSIC'S rich master and the offspring
Of rich music's father,
Old Alfonso's image living,
These fair flowers you gather
Scatter through the British soil;
Give thy fame free wing,
And gain the merit of thy toil.
We whose loves affect to praise thee,
Beyond thine own deserts can never raise thee.



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