Some say thy fault is youth (Michael Gray)
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- (Posted 2020-07-22) CPDL #59829:
- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2020-07-22). Score information: Letter (landscape), 8 pages, 218 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information
Title: Some say thy fault is youth
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2020
Description: Part of an on-going project to set the "Book of Sonnets" to SAB voicing.
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Original text and translations
English text
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness,
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport,
Both grace and faults are lov'd of more or less:
Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort:
As on the finger of a throned Queen,
The basest Jewel will be well esteem'd:
So are those errors that in thee are seen,
To truths translated, and for true things deem'd.
How many Lambs might the stern Wolf betray,
If like a Lamb he could his looks translate.
How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
If thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state?
But do not so; I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
William Shakespeare (Sonnet XCVI)