Lady your words do spite me (John Wilbye)

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• CPDL #10285:

Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages   Copyright: Personal

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

• CPDL #9301:

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

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General Information

Title: Lady your words do spite me
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 5vv  Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

Lady, your words do spite me,
yet your sweet lips, so soft, kiss and delight me,
your deeds my heart surcharg'd with overjoying,
your taunts my life destroying,
since both have force to spill me.
let kisses sweet, Sweet, kill me,
Knights fight with swords and lances,
fight you with smiling glances,
so, like swans of Leander,
my ghost from hence shall wander,
singing and dying.