A gratification vnto Master Iohn Case, for his learned booke, lately made in the praise of musicke. William Byrd Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A21861 of text S115414 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B11884

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B11884) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176599) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 524:03) A gratification vnto Master Iohn Case, for his learned booke, lately made in the praise of musicke. William Byrd Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623. Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592. aut 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music T. East, the assigne of W. Byrd, [London : 1589] Music by William Byrd; verses attributed to Thomas Watson by STC. An appreciation of "The praise of musicke", 1586; the attribution to Case is possibly erroneous. Caption title. Broadside. Imprint from STC. In six parts. Imperfect; the copy catalogued has cantus secundus part only. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.

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 eng Case, John, d. 1600. -- Praise of musicke -- Early works to 1800. Praise of musicke -- Early works to 1800. eebo A gratification vnto Master Iohn Case, for his learned booke, lately made in the praise of musicke. William Byrd Byrd, William, 1542 or 1543-1623. 1589 1 245 2 0 0 1 0 0 489.8 F The rate of 489.8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-03 Sampled and proofread 2014-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A gratification vnto Master Iohn Case , for his learned booke , lately made in the praise of Musicke . VI VOC . CANTVS SECVNDVS WILLIAM BYRD .

LEt others prayse what seemes them best , I lyke his lines a╌boue the rest , aboue the rest , aboue the rest , {repeat} whose pen hath painted Musickes prayse , hath painted &c. he soundly blames the senceles foole , & Barbarous Scithyan , of our dayes . our dayes ▪ and barbarous Scithyan of our dayes ▪ of our daies . He writes of Angells Armony , aboue the Harpe of Mercury , of Mercury , {repeat} he wrytes of sweetly turning Sphaeres , how Byrds & Beasts & wormes re╌ioyce , how Dolphyns lou'd Arions voice , he makes a frame for Midas eares {repeat} for Mi╌das eares . Secunda pars . THere may the solemne Stoycks finde , And that Rude Marsia wanteth skil , wanteth skill , against Apollos sweete con╌cent , the Nurse of good , the scourge of ill . Let Enuy barke against the starres , let Folly sayle which way she please , with him I wish my dayes to spend , my dayes to spend , whose quill hath stoode fayre Musickes frend , chief frend to peace , chief port of ease , of ease , chiefe port of ease , of ease , chiefe frend to peace , chief port of ease .