In dew of roses (Thomas Morley)

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CPDL #23254:   

Editor: Adrian Wall (submitted 2011-03-12).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 490 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Based on #15001. Transposed down a minor 3rd, for SSTB. Textual underlay adjusted.

• CPDL #15001: MIDI and NoteWorthy Composer files available.

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key, for SSAT. Files listed alphabetically by nationality and composer. Some composers have separate pages.

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

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Title: In dew of roses
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAT

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1594

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Original text and translations

English text

In dew of roses, steeping
her lovely cheeks, Lycoris
thus sat weeping.

Ah Dorus false,
that hast my heart bereft me,
and now unkind hast left me:

hear, alas hear O hear me;
ay me, cannot my beauty move thee?
Pity then, pity me because I love thee.

Ay me, thou scornst the more I pray thee,
and this thou dost to slay me.

But do, ah do, then do kill me and vaunt thee.
Yet my ghost still shall haunt thee.