If pity range with beauty (George Kirbye)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-02-03). Score information: A4, 44 pages, 41 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Based on the 1891 edition by G. E. P. Arkwright, with minor corrections.
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Title: If pity range with beauty
Composer: George Kirbye
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1597
Description: No. 18 from The first set of English madrigalls to 4, 5 & 6 voyces (George Kirbye).
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Original text and translations
English text
If pity range with beauty
Then may I be assured
That what my harm procured
Will yield me help of duty:
For wrongful she was never.
Then why should I still in despair persever?