Alas poore men - Tobias Hume

Roberta Diamond - Sopran Leonardo Bortolotto - Bass Viol Tobias Hume (ca.1569 — 16 April 1645) Alas poor men from: The First Part of Ayres, French, Pollish and Others (1605) Recorded in Basel and Leymen on August 2020. "Alas poor men, why strive you to live long to have more time and space to suffer wrong, O wrong. Our birth is blind and creeping, our life all woe and weeping. Our death all pain and terror birth, life, death, what all but error. Alas poor men... O world nurse of desires, Fortress of vaine attires. What reason canst thou render why man should hold thee tender. Alas poor men... Thou pins the pale cheek Muses and Soldier, that refuses no wounds for countries safety, he only thrives that's crafty. Alas poor men... On crutches virtue halts virtue halts Halts virtue halts, Whilst men most great in faults, in faults, most great in faults suffers best worth distressed, suffers best worth distressed with empty pride oppressed with empty pride with empty pride with empty pride oppressed oppressed. Alas poor men. O virtue yet at length rouse thy diviner strength and make no music more no music more our sad state that's deplore. Then las poor men why strive you to live long..."