Make haste ye lovers (Thomas Weelkes)

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• (Posted 2025-05-01)  CPDL #84680:     

Editor: Elam Rotem (submitted 2025-05-01).   Score information: Unknown, 2 pages, 478 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Make haste ye lovers
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
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Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSSTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 17
Description: Based on Salomone Rossi's Canzonetta Correte amanti from Il Primo Libro delle Canzonette a tre voci (1589, Venice)

Original text and translations

English text

Make haste, ye lovers, plaining,
To see my sighs and her disdaining.
My heart his grief espying,
Comfortless is dying.