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Title: It was a time when silly Bees could speake,

Composer: Dowland, John (1563 -- 1626)

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Parts: 4

Book: The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires. Newly composed to sing to the Lute, Orpharion, or viols, and a dialogue for a base and meane Lute with five voices to sing thereto

filename	Last modified	Number of downloads
/music/dowland/bees/score.mid	2009-06-04 15:49:07	1,230
/music/dowland/bees/allparts.pdf	2009-06-04 15:49:07	2,481
/music/dowland/bees/allparts.abc	2009-06-04 15:49:07	2,067
/music/dowland/bees/allparts.zip	2009-06-04 15:49:08	206

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