Adieu! sweet love, adieu (Thomas Bateson)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-06). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 66 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised files uploaded 27/01/19.
General Information
Title: Adieu! sweet love, adieu
Composer: Thomas Bateson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1604 in The First Set of English Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 10
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Original text and translations
English text
Adieu! sweet love, adieu, O thus to part
Kills my bleeding heart,
Yet fate alas! will have it so.
Cruel their doom so to decree,
At once to part two lovers true;
But since we needs must part,
Once again, adieu! sweetheart.