Sometime my hope (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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  • CPDL #31886:       
Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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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

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Description: From Musica Transalpina.

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