Description

Mistress Mine Well May You Fare is from Thomas Morley’ First Book Of Ayres (1600). Morley’s description of the publication was: Little short songs to sing and play to the lute with the base viole. I have substituted guitar for lute and cello for bass viole. This is a verse song, typical of the era. There are four verses and the accompaniment is repeated for each verse. Ornamentation would have been expected and I have offered with this score two possible decorations of the  guitar accompaniment one of which is an octave above the original allowing greater flexibility for the singer. The full score is adequate for all three musicians to rehearse and perform from therefore only the guitar part is given separately with the ornamentation. All of the songs can be played without cello if required.