Weepe forthe your teares, and doe lament (John Ward)
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- Editor: John Kelly (submitted 2019-09-06). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 123 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Weepe Forthe your Teares, and Doe Lament
Composer: John Ward
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1612
Description: Composed for the funeral of Prince Henry, son of King James I of England.
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Original text and translations
English text
Weepe forth your teares and doe lament,
He’s dead who living was of all the world beloved.
Let dolorous lamenting still be spread,
Thorough all the earth, that all harts may be moved
To sigh and plaine, since death hath slaine Prince Henery.
Oh, had he liv’d our hopes had still encreased,
But he is dead and all our joyes deceased.