Let not the sluggish sleep (William Byrd)

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Editor: David Fraser (added 2003-10-14).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 93 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised Oct 08

General Information

Title: Let not the sluggish sleep
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: AATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets.. (1611), no.10

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Original text and translations

English text

Let not the sluggish sleepe
close up thy waking eye,
Untill with judgement deepe
thy daily deedes thou try.
Hee that one sinne in conscience keepes
when he to quiet goes,
More ventrous is then he that sleepes,
With twentie mortall foes.