Greene selected 25 sonnets from Edmund Spenser`s poetry cycle Amoretti 1595.
Unlike most sonnets of the era for example those by Petrarch or Shakespeare which celebrated unrequited tragic or secret love `Amoretti` is the story of a successful courtship culminating in marriage. Spenser dedicated this cycle to his real-life lover and later wife Elizabeth Boyle.
Maurice Greene (1696–1755)
Spenser`s Amoretti, vocal cycle for tenor and continuo on verses by E.Spenser (1739) 
No.2 `Happy ye leaves`
Harpsichord - Luke Green. Recorded in 2012. 
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No.3 `Faire Eyes`
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No.4 `Ye tradefull merchants`
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No.5 `The Rolling Wheel`
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No.6 `The Merry Cuckow`
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No.7 `How long shall this like dying life endure`
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No.8 `The Laurell leafe`
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No.9 `Like as a ship`
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No.10 `What guile is this`
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No.11 `Arion`
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No.12 `Sweet Smile`
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