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- CPDL #14906:
NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-10). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.
- CPDL #10111:
- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-14). Score information: Letter, 13 pages, 91 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan
- Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.
General Information
Title: Witness, ye heavens
Composer: Giles Farnaby
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSSAATBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
Witness ye heav'ns, I vow to love the fairest,
to love, but how? For virtue, not for lust, for virtue.
Why? Because she is the rarest.
Come life, come death, in her I only trust;
hap death, hap life, I force not which betide me,
by her I live, from death I cannot hide me.