Dear pity, how? (John Wilbye)

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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.

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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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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.