My sweet Layis (Giovanni de Macque)

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• (Posted 2021-02-13)  CPDL #62880:   

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth.

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Title: My sweet Layis
Composer: Giovanni de Macque
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Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598

Description: Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598

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Original text and translations

English text

My sweet Layis, lady mistress,
ladies, ay me, poor heart,
daily tormented
and deadly malcontented,
since thou for true love,
shalt be so sore disgraced,
by foul enormity,
in thee first placed.