Sweet honey sucking bees (John Wilbye)
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= HELP- CPDL #10289:
- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (added 2005-11-30). Score information: Letter, 7 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan
- CPDL #9304:
- Editor: Brian Russell (added 2005-08-30). Score information: Letter Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes part 2: Yet Take Heed
General Information
Title: Sweet honey sucking bees
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
Sweet honey sucking bees,
why do you still surfeit on roses, pinks and violets,
as if the choicest nectar lay in them
where with you store your curious cabinets?
Ah, make your flight to Melisuavia's lips.
There, there may you revel in ambrosian cheer,
where smiling roses and sweet lillies sit,
Keeping their springtide graces all the year,
Yet, sweet, take heed, all sweets are hard to get
Sting not, sting not her soft lips, O, beware of that,
for if one flaming dart come from her eye,
was never dart so sharp, ah, then you die, you die.
