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'''Published:''' 1609
'''Published:''' 1609


'''Description:''' No.8 from [[The Second Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (John Wilbye)|''The 2nd Set of Madrigals'']]. A reply to [[I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe (John Wilbye)|''I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe'']].
'''Description:''' No. 8 from [[The Second Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (John Wilbye)|''The 2nd Set of Madrigals'']]. A reply to [[I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe (John Wilbye)|''I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe'']].


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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-27).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: There is a jewel
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SST

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1609

Description: No. 8 from The 2nd Set of Madrigals. A reply to I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe.

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Original text and translations

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There is a jewel, which no Indian mines
Can buy, no chymic art can counterfeit,
It makes men rich in greatest poverty,
Makes water wine; turns wooden cups to gold;
The homely whistle, to sweet music’s strain.
Seldom it comes, to few from Heaven sent,
That much in little, all in nought content.