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CPDL #24207:
Capella
- 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: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1598
Description: No.5 from The 1st Set of Madrigals
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Original text and translations
English text
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.