Though Amarillis dance in green (William Byrd)

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• (Posted 2022-04-18)  CPDL #68886: 

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2022-04-18).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Note values halved. Modern clefs.

• (Posted 2020-06-03)  CPDL #59026:     

Editor: Gary D. Cannon (submitted 2020-06-03).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 125 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: With verses written out, but refrain printed only once (with dal segno)

• (Posted 2020-06-03)  CPDL #59025:     

Editor: Gary D. Cannon (submitted 2020-06-03).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 184 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: With all verses and refrains written out.

• (Posted 2017-03-13)  CPDL #43545:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-03-13).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #13102, with all verses underlain and English modernised. In particular, the word chill, which is an obsolete dialect word meaning I will, has been changed to I'll.

• (Posted 2016-11-03)  CPDL #41673:       

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2016-11-03).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 306 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2006-11-17)  CPDL #13102:         

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• (Posted 2004-02-20)  CPDL #06739: 

Editor: John D. Smith (submitted 2004-02-20).   Score information: 49.4 x 69.8 cm, 3 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2003-04-24)  CPDL #04866:        (Sibelius 4)

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2003-04-24).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 367 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: revised May 2023.

General Information

Title: Though Amarillis Dance in Green (spelling as in Byrd's publication, i.e. not Amaryllis)
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1580 in Dow Partbooks, no. 131
First published: 1588 in Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs, no. 12
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Original text and translations

English text

Though Amarillis daunce in green,
like Fayrie Queene,
and sing full cleere,
Corina can with smiling cheer:
yet since their eyes make hart so sore,
hey ho, chill* love no more.

My sheepe are lost for want of food,
and I so wood:
that all the day,
I sit and watch a heardmaid gaye:
who laughes to see mee sigh so sore,
hey ho, chill love no more.

Her loving lookes, her beautie bright,
is such delight:
that all in vaine,
I love to like, and lose my gaine:
for her that thanks mee not therefore,
hey ho, chill love no more.

Ah wanton eyes my friendly foes,
and cause of woes:
your sweet desire,
breedes flames of ice and freese in fire:
yee skorne to see mee weep so sore,
hey ho, chill love no more.

Love yee who list I force him not,
sith God it wot,
the more I wayle,
the lesse my sighes and teares prevaile,
what shall I doe but say therefore,
hey ho, chill love no more.

• chill is an obsolete dialect word meaning I will.