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Video footage of tenor Peter Pears with lutenist Julian Bream. They perform two classics from the lute song repertoire of the Renaissance. 24 February 1959.

1. "Fine Knacks for Ladies" by John Dowland (Second Book of Songs, 1600)
2. "What Then Is Love but Mourning" by Philip Rosseter (Booke of Ayres, 1601)

Link to my Peter Pears playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56BC9315D6954644&feature=plcp

1. "Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new! Good pennyworths - but money cannot prove. I keep a fair but for the fair to view. A beggar may be liberal of love. Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, The heart is true.

Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again; My trifles come as treasures from my mind. It is a precious jewel to be plain. Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearl we find. Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain. Of me a grain.

Within this pack pins, points, laces and gloves, And divers toys fitting a country fair; But in my heart, where duty serves and loves, Turtles and twins, court's brood, a heavenly pair. Happy the heart that thinks of no removes! Of no removes."
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2. "What then is love but mourning, What desire but a selfburning, Till she that hates doth love return, Thus will I mourn, Thus will I sing, Come away, come away my darling.

Beauty is but a blooming, Youth in his glory entombing, Time hath a while which none can stay, Then come away, While thus I sing, Come away, come away my darling.

Summer in winter fadeth, Gloomy night heav'nly light shadeth, Like to the mourn are Venus' flowers, Such are her hours, Then will I sing, Come away, come away my darling."

Here's a link to a live performance with Julian Bream performing Granados' "Valses poéticos" from Edinburgh, 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwcwjcvT5YU