Weep, silly soul (John Bennet)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-10-02). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 175 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Weep, silly soul
Composer: John Bennet
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: AATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1599 in Madrigals for Four Voices, no. 2
2nd published: 1853 Novello's Glee Hive no.78
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Original text and translations
English text
Weep, silly soul disdainèd,
Thy hapless fate lamenting,
That love, whose passion painèd
Wrought never thy contenting.
And since thou art disdainèd
By them thou most affected,
Let them be now rejected.