This interesting collection looks back to the ‘Winter’ of Byrd and Mundy in the conservative settings of such verse as My prime of youth (see EM35B); but it is also a contemporary record, with two madrigals celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot against James I.

• Behold now praise the Lord (S (or A) S (or A) TBB)
• But yet it seems (SSAB)
• Can I abide this prancing? (SSATB)
• Earth’s but a point (SSATB)
• For Lust is frail (SSATB)
• He only can behold (SSAB)
• Her eyes like angels (SSATB)
• I can no more but hope (SSAB)
• In hope a King (SSAB)
• My prime of youth (SSAB)
• O heavy heart (SSAB)
• O Lord bow down thine ear (SATTB)
• Rest with yourselves (SSATB)
• Shall I abide this jesting (SSATB)
• The man upright of life (SSAB)
• The sac...