John Ayres example -1695

"An example of John Ayres's Italian Hand, c. 1695. I've taken the liberty of deciphering the abbreviations.

The Idle man is like a dumb
Jack in Virginals, while all
the others dance out a winning
Musick: this like a broken member
sullens the body with an ill disturbing
Lazinesse."

~2015, Don Marsh~