Short and sweet One of the shortest pieces from the Margaret Board Lute Book, and good fun to play. I have had to take some liberties with the lower voice, but it sounds OK. There is a lot of space for you to add your own decorations (graces, divisions, etc). "Fair ministers" as it appears in the MS I have tried (not very diligently, I must admit) to trace the origin of the words, presumably a song or part of a masque:  Fayre my[ni]sters disdayne me not though hard fauored I be  For Venus did not w[i]th V[u]lcan match yet none so foule as he In  [...] that text What [...] knowe What if he were a cuckold made would be so served so  That's the best my slight skills in palaeography can achieve. It does not appear to be a reference to the poem “Disdain me not without desert” by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Nevertheless it's good fun to play. You can download a pdf of the piece freely here.

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