Everyone who ever loved a woman has felt the same at some time! You try to understand her, but it's like trying to grasp a handful of water in the stream.
In this year of our Lord 1587 Master Giles Farnaby married Katherine Roane, and while at the time of our visit, he is still a tradesman, having recently completed his indenture as an apprentice to a joiner and cabinet-maker he has now achieved journeyman status, but already he shows a noticeable talent for music.
A few words with Master Farnaby in his master's shop and we arrange to meet him in the evening at the White Hart. With a few pints of cider between us, Giles honors us with an invitation back to his home, where he will play for us, on a virginals made by his cousin Nick, his latest madrigal.
In the course of discussion, Giles mentions the news of the Siege of Antwerp that reached England more than a year ago and the more recent news of Sir Francis Drake's raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz. Some of the street balladeers in the city still have copies of the broadsheets for sale, telling the stories with accompanying woodcuts.
It is thirty years since England's last catholic monarch, Mary the first, died and her half-sister, protestant Elizabeth ascended to the throne. In 1559 her government passed the Act of Uniformity which required all English citizens to attend an Anglican church every week, or be fined 12 pence, not a trivial sum for the poor majority. Giles mentions rumours that King Philip II of Spain is determined in his piety that the errant nations of Europe should be corrected, by force if necessary, and that the campaign which was so recently prosecuted in the Netherlands may soon be spread to England. While Philip's campaign in the Burgundian Netherlands may be justified to some extent since the territory became Habsburg property through the Treaty of Senlis in 1493, he cannot claim any such justification in any plan to subdue England.
X:1 % number
T:The Wavering Planet % title
C:Giles Farnaby % composer
O:Transcribed from Noteworthy Composer format by Myscha Aiken % origin.
M:C % meter
L:1/4 % length of shortest note
Q: % tempo
V:1 name="Cantus"
V:2 name="Altus"
V:3 name="Tenor"
V:4 name="Bassus" clef=bass
K:C % key
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V:1 % voice 1
d4 | d/c/B/A/ G g | g/f/e/d/ c/B/A/G/ | ^F/E/ D G B-|B A/G/ A G |
w:The wav-er-ing pla-net, the wav-er-ing plan-et, the wa-ver-ing plan-et, the wav--er-ing plan-et
V:2
z4 | d2 d/c/ B/A/ | G g e/d/ c/B/ | A/G/ ^F/E/ D d | e c/B/ c/d/ e |
w:The wav-er-ing plan-et, the wav-er-ing plan-et, the wav-er-ing plan-et, wav-er-ing plan-et
V:3
z4 | z G2 G/F/ | E/D/ C2 C | D>C B,2 | C3 C |
w:The wav-er-ing plan-et, the wav-er-ing plan-et
V:4
z4 | z4 | z4 | z4 | z4 |
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V:1
^F G2 F | G e/f/ g d | e c B c | z B e d | d ^c d B |
w:most un-sta-ble, God-dess of the wa-ters flow-ing, of the wa-ters, flow-ing that
V:2
d B/c/ d A | B c2 B | c A ^G A-|A G A A | A A A G |
w:most un--sta--ble, God-dess of the wa-ters-- flow-ing wa-ters, flow-ing that
V:3
D G, D D | z G E/F/ G | C>D E A, | E2 E F | E2 ^F D |
w:most un-sta-ble, God-dess-- of the wa-ters, flow-ing wa-ters flow-ing that
V:4
D, D B,/C/ D | G, C, z2 | z2 E, E | C/D/ E ^C D | A,2 D, G, |
w:God-dess of-- the wa-ters, God-dess of the wa-ters flow-ing that
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V:1
c>c B c-|c B A A | B2 z _B | _B4-|_B2 _B2 |
w:bears a sway in_ each thing grow-ing, and makes_ my
V:2
A>G G G | ^F G2 F | G2 z d | d4 | f4 |
w:bears a sway in each thing grow-ing, and makes my
V:3
F>E D E | A, B,/C/ D2 | D2 z G | F4 | D4 |
w:bears a sway in each thing-- grow-ing, and makes my
V:4
F,>C, G, C, | D, D, D,2 | G,2 z G, | _B,4-|_B,2 _B,2 |
w:bears a sway in each thing grow-ing and makes my
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V:1
c3 _B | A G A2 | A4 |: A>B c/d/ e-|e d/c/ B2 |
w:La-dy var-i-a-ble, oft I seek to un-der---mind
V:2
f3 e/d/ | ^c d2 c | d2 D>E |:[L:1/8] FG A3 BcB//A// |[L:1/4] ^G A2 G |
w:La-dy* var-i-a-ble, oft I seek to un-der-mind_____
V:3
A3 G/F/ | E D E2 | ^F2 z D-|:[L:1/8] DE FG A3 G/F/ |[L:1/4] E2 E2 |
w:La-dy* var-i-a-ble, oft_ I seek to un-der--mind her
V:4
F,3 G, | A, _B, A,2 | D,4 |: z4 | z4 |
w:La-dy var-i-a-ble,
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%===========22=====================23===============24============25======================26
V:1
A2 E>^F |[L:1/8] GA B3 cdc/B/ |[L:1/4] A G A2 | B2 z2 |[L:1/8] z4 z2 cd |
w:her, oft I seek to un-der-mind_____ her Oft I
V:2
A2 z2 | [L:1/8] z8 | [L:1/4] z4 | z D>E F/G/ |[L:1/8] A3 B c3 B/A/ |
w:her, oft I seek to un-der-mind her_
V:3
A,>B, C/D/ E-|[L:1/8] EF G3 F/E/DE |[L:1/4] ^F G2 F | G2 z A,-|[L:1/8] A,B, CD E3 F |
w:oft I seek to un-der-mind________ her oft_ I seek to un-der-
V:4
z A,>B, C/D/ |[L:1/8] E3 D/C/ B,3 D |[L:1/4] D4 | G,2 D,>E |[L:1/8] F,G, A,3 B, C2-|
w:oft I seek to un-der----mind her, oft I seek to un-der-mind
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V:1
ef g3 f/e/ d2 |[L:1/4] e f e2 | ^f2 z2 | z d>^c d | e f d e |
w:seek to un-der---mind__ her, yet I know not where, not where,
V:2
GABc dc/B/AB |[L:1/4] ^c d2 c | d2 z2 | A>^G A F | E A>^G A |
w:oft I seek to un-der--mind____ her, yet I know not where, yet I know
V:3
G3 F/E/ DEFG |[L:1/4] A F A2 | D2 F>E | F D E D-|D/ ^C/ D B, C |
w:mind her,_ oft I seek to un-der-mind her, yet I know not where, yet_ I know not where
V:4
CB,/A,/G,A, B,C D2 |[L:1/4] A,4 | z2 D>^C | D B, A, D, | A, D, D>^C |
w:________ her, yet I know not where to find her, yet I
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V:1
A>^G A F | E d>^c d | e f e e |[1 d4 :|[2 d4 |]
w:yet I know not where, yet I know not where to find her, her.
V:2
F z2 d-|d/ ^c/ d e f | e d2 ^c |[1 d2 D>E :|[2 d4 |]
w:not, yet_ I know not where for to find her, oft I her.
V:3
z D>^C D | E F E D-|D/ ^C/ D A>G |[1 ^F2 z D :|[2 ^F4 |]
w:yet I know not where, I know_ not where to find her, oft her.
V:4
D B, A,2 | A,4 | A,4 |[1 D,4 :|[2 D,4 |]
w:know not where to find her, her.
In the course of the evening Mistress Farnaby informs us that Giles has expressed an interest in learning to design and build instruments and intends to consult his cousin on the subject. And since so many people in the city resort to music as their entertainment she fancies it may be a prosperous notion. Poor Giles looks astonished, according to him, the last time they discussed the prospect, she dismissed it as "folly, for the playhouses now are so prosperous that folk should scarce have a penny or a minute to sing in their own homes".
With candles lit in the house, and the cries of an enthusiastic watchman ("Take heed to your fire, your lock and your light, and God give you good night!"), uncharacteristically early in making his first round of the streets it is time for us to bid Master Farnaby and Katherine a warm farewell, and leave.
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