Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly (Robert Jones)
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- (Posted 2014-09-11) CPDL #32908: (Finale 2004)
- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2014-09-11). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 135 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down from G.
General Information
Title: Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly
Composer: Robert Jones
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1601 in The Triumphs of Oriana, no. 21
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Original text and translations
English text
Fair Oriana, seeming to wink at folly,
Lay softly down a-sleeping,
But hearing that the world was grown unholy
her rest was turned to weeping,
So waked, she sighed, and with crossed arms,
sat drinking tears for others' harms.
Then sang the Nymphs and shepherds of Diana,
Long live fair Oriana.