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Let not the sluggish sleep (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: Let not the sluggish sleep
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: AATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets.. (1611), no.10
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Original text and translations
English text
Let not the sluggish sleepe
close up thy waking eye,
Untill with judgement deepe
thy daily deedes thou try.
Hee that one sinne in conscience keepes
when he to quiet goes,
More ventrous is then he that sleepes,
With twentie mortall foes.
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