Cease sorrows now (Thomas Weelkes)

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(Posted 2017-01-28) CPDL #42844:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-01-28). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #9283, with corrections to underlay and barring regularised.

(Posted 2008-01-24) CPDL #15830:

Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2008-01-24). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 148 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a 4th for ATB.

(Posted 2005-08-30) CPDL #09283:

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 32 kB Copyright: CPDL

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(Posted 2004-08-06) CPDL #07720:

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 108 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Cease sorrows now
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
Lyricist: Thomas Weelkes

Number of voices: 3vv Voicings: SAT or ATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1597 in Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 6
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Original text and translations

English text

Cease, sorrows, now, for you have done the deed.
Lo, care hath now consum'd my carcase quite.
No hope is left, nor help can stand instead,
For doleful death doth cut off pleasure quite.
Yet, whilst I hear the knolling of the bell
Before I die, I'll sing my faint farewell.