O fly not, love (Thomas Morley)

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Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: Letter   Copyright: Personal

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Title: O fly not love
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Three Voices (1593)

Description: This text (originally used by Thomas Bateson) was set to this music (published in Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke) by Thurston Dart.

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Original text and translations

English text

O fly not, love, O do not fly me,
Stay awhile, but awhile O stay thee,
my darling sweet, O stay thee. thee.
Hear Coridon complaining
His grief through thy disdaining,
O do not thus unfriendly use me,
Nor yet abuse me,
To kiss me once, but once,
And so refuse me.