Alas! What a wretched life (John Wilbye)
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- CPDL #24293:
Alas!_What_a_wretched_life.cap
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-29). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: In original key of A minor.
General Information
Title: Alas! What a wretched life
Composer: John Wilbye
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: No. 19 from The 1st Set of Madrigals.
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Original text and translations
English text
Alas! What a wretched life is this!
Nay what a death! Where tyrant Love commandeth!
My flow’ring days are in their prime declining,
All my proud hope quite fall’n, and life untwining,
My joys each after other, in haste are flying,
And leave me dying for her that scorns my crying.
Oh she from hence departs, my love refraining,
For whom, all heartless alas! I die complaining.