Lady, the silly flea (Giles Farnaby)

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  • (Posted 2011-07-31)  CPDL #24059:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-07-31).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: A reformatting of #14893. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Revised files uploaded 02/02/19.
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General Information

Title: Lady, the silly flea
Composer: Giles Farnaby

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in Canzonets to Four Voices, no. 9
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Original text and translations

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Lady, the silly flea of all disdained,
because it hath complained:
I pity that poor creature,
both black and small of stature,
were I a flea, indeed I would not bite you,
but search some other way for to delight you.