O fly not, love (Thomas Morley)

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• CPDL #26061:  [ ] [ ] [ ]

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-04-29).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 21 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #9253.

• CPDL #09253:  (NoteWorthy Composer)

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 23 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: O fly not, love
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAB

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.
Hear Corydon 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.