Compel the hawk to sit (William Byrd)

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Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-05-10).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 126 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Compel the Hawk to sit
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Songs of sundrie natures (1589), no.28

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Original text and translations

English text

Compell the Hawke to sitt that is unmand,

or make the Hound untaught, to draw the Deere,

or bring the free against his will in band,

or move the sad a pleasant tale to heare,

your time is lost, and you are neare the neere:

So Love ne learnes by force the knot to knit,

he serves but those that feele sweete fancyes fit.

Thomas Churchyard (c.1520-1604)