Whereto should I express (Henry VIII)
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- (Posted 2025-10-06) CPDL #87008:
- Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2025-10-06). Score information: A4, 1 page, 30 kB Copyright: CC BY ND
- Edition notes: Edited from the Henry VIII manuscript via the digital images at DIAMM. Original note values. Original spelling. (For modern spelling, see below.)
General Information
Title: Whereto should I express
Composer: Henry VIII
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv Voicings: STB or ATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1513
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
Whereto should I express
My inward heaviness?
No mirth can make me fain
'Til that we meet again.
Do way, dear heart, not so.
Let no thought you dismay.
Thoough ye now part me fro,
We shall meet when we may.
When I remember me
Of your most gentil mind,
It may in no wise agree
That I should be unkind.
The daisy delectable,
The violet wan and blo;
Ye are not variable;
I love you and no mo.
I make you fast and sure;
It is to me great pain
Thus long to endure
'Till that we meet again.