I saw my lady weeping (Thomas Morley)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-02-19). Score information: A4, 1 page, 16 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: I saw my lady weeping
Composer: Thomas Morley
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Lute
Published: 1600
Description: #5 from Morley's First Book of Ayres.
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Original text and translations
English text
I saw my lady weeping
And sorrow proud to be advanced so
In those fair eyes, in those fair eyes
where all perfection's kept.
Her face was full of woe,
But such a woe, believe me,
as wins more hearts
Than mirth can do, than mirth can do
with her enticing parts.