O fly not, O take some pity (Thomas Morley)
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- CPDL #13597:
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-02-15). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- CPDL #00740:
- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2000-03-14). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 526 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: in partbook format
General Information
Title: O fly not
Composer: Thomas Morley
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1593
Description: No. 11 from Canzonets for three voices
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Original text and translations
English text
< poem >
O fly not, O take some pity.
I faint alas, I faint; O stay, O stay her.
See how she flies;
O stay and hear my prayer.
With one sweet look you may of torment ease me;
I am no tiger fierce that seeks to spill thee.
No, no, I see, thou dost but this to kill me;
Lo then I die, and all to please thee.
</poem>