I thought that Love had been a boy (William Byrd)
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General Information
Title: I thought that love had been a boy
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Songs of sundrie natures (1589), no.32
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Original text and translations
English text
I thought that love had beene a boy, with blinded eies,
or else some other wanton toy, that men devise,
like tales of fayries often told,
by doting age that dies for cold.
