The Shepherd Doron’s jig (Charles Villiers Stanford)
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- (Posted 2024-03-12) CPDL #79497:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 509 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Shepherd Doron’s jig
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Robert Greene
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 2], Opus 53, No. 6
(THE SHEPHERD DORON’S JIG)
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Original text and translations
English text
From “Menaphon” (1589)
Through the shrubs as I can crack
For my lambs, little ones,
’Mongst many pretty ones,—
Nymphs I mean, whose hair was black
As the crow:
Like as the snow
Her face and browès shined I ween!—
I saw a little one,
A bonny pretty one,
As bright, buxom, and as sheen
As was she
On her knee
That lulled the god, whose arrow warms
Such merry little ones,
Such fair-faced pretty ones
As dally in Love’s chiefest harms:
Such was mine,
Whose grey eyne
Made me love. I gan to woo
This sweet little one,
This bonny pretty one.
I wooed hard a day or two,
Till she bade
‘Be not sad,
Woo no more, I am thine own,
Thy dearest little one,
Thy truest pretty one.’
Thus was faith and firm love shown,
As behoves
Shepherds’ loves.