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Cease sorrows now (Thomas Weelkes)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 32 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Cease sorrows now
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT or ATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1597)
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Original text and translations
English text
Cease, sorrows, now, for you have done the deed,
lo, care hath now consum'd my carcase quite,
no hope is left, nor help can stand instead,
for doleful death doth cut off pleasure quite,
yet, whilst I hear the knolling of the bell
before I die, I'll sing my faint farewell.
