Cease sorrows now (Thomas Weelkes)

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General Information

Title: Cease sorrows now
Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: SAT or ATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

Image:English.png English text

Cease, sorrows, now, for you have done the deed,
lo, care hath now consum'd my carcase quite,
no hope is left, nor help can stand instead,
for doleful death doth cut off pleasure quite,
yet, whilst I hear the knolling of the bell
before I die, I'll sing my faint farewell.

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