Deep lamenting (Thomas Morley)

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• CPDL #14947:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 50 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #00738:  PDF, MIDI and ABC files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2000-03-14).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 264 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: in partbook format

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Title: Deep lamenting
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Three Voices (1593)

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English text

Deep lamenting, grief, bewraying;
Poor Amintas thus sat saying:
Glut now thine eyes full,
while I lie here a dying;
killed with disdain,
alas, and pity crying;
Now, mayst thou laugh full merrily;
for dead lo is the man,
dead is thy mortal enemy.
O no, weep not,
I cannot bide this blindness;
All too late now God wot,
all too late comes this kindness.
But if you would that death should,
death of life, of life should deprive me;
Weep not alas lest you revive me,
weep not lest you thereby revive me.
Ah cease to bewail me,
my life now doth fail me.