By a bank (Thomas Ravenscroft)
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- Editor: Suzi Nassen Stefl (submitted 2001-05-16). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: By a bank
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1609 in Deuteromelia, no. 19
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Original text and translations
English text
By a bank as I lay,
Musing on a thing that was past and gone, hey ho.
In the merry month of May,
O somewhat before the day,
Methought I heard at the last.
O the gentle nightingale,
The lady and mistress of all musick,
She sits down ever in the dale
Singing with her notes most smale,
Quavering them wonderful thick.
O for joy my spirits were quick,
To hear the sweet bird how merrily she could sing,
And said good lord defend
England with thy most Holy Hand,
And save noble James our King.