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'''Published:''' 1598
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  • CPDL #24200:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-20).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Based on #7721, with some simplified barring. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Alas, what hope of speeding
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1598

Description: No.9 from The 1st Set of Madrigals

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Original text and translations

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Alas what hope of speeding
Where hope beguiled lies bleeding?
She bade come when she spied me,
And when I came she flied me.
Thus when I was beguiled,
She at my sighing smiled.
But if you take such pleasure
Of hope and joy, my treasure,
By deceit to bereave me,
Love me, and so deceive me.