Draw on, sweet night (John Wilbye)

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• CPDL #14783:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2007-09-03).   Score information: A4, 11 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Scorch and PDF options available.

• CPDL #10277:

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan

• CPDL #9298:

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: Letter   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

• CPDL #436: Finale 1998

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-03-25).   Score information: 168 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Draw On, Sweet Night
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 6vv  Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: From Wilbye's second set of madrigals, 1609.

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Original text and translations

English text

Draw on, Sweet Night, friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
that unto thee I consecrate it wholly.
Sweet Night, draw on
My griefs when they be told to shades
and darkness find some ease from paining,
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.