Hark! Did ye ever hear (Thomas Hunt)

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Title: Hark! Did ye ever hear
Composer: Thomas Hunt

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: No. 17 from The Triumphs of Oriana

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Original text and translations

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Hark!
Did ye ever hear so sweet,
so sweet a singing?
They sing young love to waken, to waken,
The nymphs unto the woods,
their queen are bringing.
There was a note well taken,
Hark! O good!
O most divine,
O most divinely dittied:
a queen and song
most excellent,
most excellently fitted.
I never saw,
I never saw a fairer,
I never heard a rarer.
Then sung the nymphs and shepherds of Diana:
Long live fair Oriana!