Clear wells spring not (Thomas Weelkes)
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- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-11-14). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 305 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Clear wells spring not
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
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Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1597 in Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 4
Description: Third and Last Part
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Original text and translations
English text
Clear wells spring not
Sweet birds sing not
Loud bells ring not cheerfully,
Herds stand weeping
Flocks all sleeping
Nymphs back creeping fearfully.
All our pleasures known to us, poor swains,
All our merry meetings on the plains,
All our evening sports from us are fled,
All our loves are lost, for love is dead.
Farewell, sweet lass!
the like ne'er was,
For a sweet content, the cause of all my woe;
Poor Coridon must live alone,
Other help for him I know, there's none.