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- CPDL #25503: Ah_sweet,_alas!_when_first_I_saw.cap
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-30). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Based on the 1891 edition by G. E. P. Arkwright. {MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Ah sweet, alas! when first I saw
Composer: George Kirbye
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1597 in The first set of English madrigalls to 4-6 voyces, no. 7
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Original text and translations
English text
Ah sweet, alas! when first I saw those eyes,
Those eyes so rich with crystal majesty,
Their wounding beauty ‘gan to tyrannise
And made mine eyes bleed tears full piteously:
I felt the wound, yet fear’d I not the deed,
Till ah! I found my tears did inward bleed.