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'''Description:''' No. 5 from [[The First Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (John Wilbye)|''The 1st Set of Madrigals'']]
'''Description:''' No. 5 from [[The First Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (John Wilbye)|''The 1st Set of Madrigals'']]

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  • CPDL #24207:       
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 48 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Dear pity, how?
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SST

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 5 from The 1st Set of Madrigals

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Original text and translations

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Dear pity, how, ah! how, wouldst thou become her!
That best becometh beauty's best attiring;
Shall my desert deserve no favour from her?
But still to waste myself in deep adminring,
Like him who calls to echo to relieve him,
Still tells and hears the tale, Oh! tale that grieves him.