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Constant Penelope (William Byrd)
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- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2004-07-15). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 135 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Constant Penelope
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, sonets, & songs... (1588), no.23
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Original text and translations
English text
Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses,
write not againe, but come sweet mate thy selfe to revive mee.
Troy wee doe much envie, wee desolate lost Ladies of Greece:
Not Priamus, nor yet all Troy can us recompence make.
Oh, that hee had when hee first tooke shipping to Lacedemon,
that adulter I meane, had beene o’rewhelmed with waters:
Then had I not lien now all alone, thus quivering for cold,
nor used this complaint, nor have thought the day to bee so long.
- Ovid, Heroides I, tr. ?Thomas Watson (c.1557-1592)
