Hold out my heart (Thomas Morley)
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- CPDL #14959: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 1999-12-07). Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 697 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: In partbook format
General Information
Title: Hold out my heart
Composer: Thomas Morley
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Three Voices (1593)
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Original text and translations
English text
Hold out my heart, my heart, my heart hold,
hold out my heart, hold with joy's delights accloyed,
O hold, hold thou out my heart, and show it,
that all tbe world, the world may know it,
what sweet content thou lately hast enjoyed;
She that come dear would say,
then laugh and run away,
and if I stayed her thus would she then cry,
nay fie for shame fie,
my true love true not regarding;
hath giv'n my love at length his full rewarding.
So that unless I may tell the joys that do overfill me;
my joys kept in I know in time will kill me.