I languish to complain me (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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• (Posted 2021-02-13)  CPDL #62883:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth. Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598.

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Title: I languish to complain me
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 8
    2nd published: 1598 in Madrigals to five voices (ed. Thomas Morley) – English translation, no. 15
Description: A translation of Ferrabosco's madrigal 'Vorrei lagnarmi a pieno'.

Original text and translations

English text

I languish to complain me with ghastly grief tormented.
I stand amazed to see you discontented.
Better I to hold my peace and covertly to stop my breath,
than cause my sorrows to increase and work my death.