Enforced by love and fear (Robert Parsons)

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Editor: George Steel (submitted 2005-09-14).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Enforced by love and fear
Composer: Robert Parsons

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Countertenor solo

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: Viol consort

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English text

Enforced by love and fear,
to please and not offend
Within the words you willed me write,
A message must I send.

A woeful errand, sure,
A wretched man must write
A wretched tale a woeful head
beseemeth to indite.