Sometime my hope (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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  • (Posted 2017-03-09)  CPDL #43472:         
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Title: Sometime my hope
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
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Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 12
    2nd published: 1588 in Musica Transalpina (ed. Nicholas Yonge) – in English translation, Edition 1, no. 37
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Original text and translations

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Sometime my hope full weakly went on by line and leisure,
but now it grows to do my heart some pleasure.

Yet that my hope decay not by overmuch contenting,
Love will not give my joys their full augmenting,
but still with some disaster,
allays my bliss that hope may be the faster.