Alas, what hope of speeding (John Wilbye)

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CPDL #24200:    [ 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.

• CPDL #7721: Sibelius 2

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: Personal

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

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1598

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

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English text

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.