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CPDL #18050: 
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2008-06-15). Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Scorch required to view score. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Epitaph on Sir John Calf
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
All people now in your behalf
think of the fate of Sir John Calf.
O cruel death, more cunning than a fox,
that would not let this Calf live til he became an ox.
Oh that might have eaten both brambles and thorns
and when he came to his father’s years
he might have worn the horns.