O fly not, love (Thomas Morley)
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- CPDL #26061: O_fly_not_love.pdf O_fly_not_love.mid O_fly_not_love.cap
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-04-29). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 21 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #9253.
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 23 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: NoteWorthy Composer file may be viewed and printed with NoteWorthy Composer Viewer.
General Information
Title: O fly not, love
Composer: Thomas Morley
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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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.