My Mistress will not be content (Thomas Ravenscroft)

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Editors: Greg Lindahl and Bernard Roth (submitted 2001-06-06).   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: My Mistress will not be content
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: 3 part
Genre: Secular, Canon

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Melismata (1611)

Description: #9 from 'Melismata'

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Original text and translation

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My mistress will not be content
to take a Jest as Chaucer meant
but following stil the womans fashion
allowes it for the new translation
for with the word she would not dispence
and yet I know the love the sence.

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