Love, cease tormenting (Thomas Tomkins)
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- Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2009-08-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Love, cease tormenting
Composer: Thomas Tomkins
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1622 in Songs of 3-6 parts, no. 6
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Original text and translations
English text
Love, cease tormenting
Love, cease tormenting,
My lady is relenting.
How can it be so precious a jewel
Should harbour thoughts so pitiless and cruel?
O no, that breast so dainty
Doth not enclose a heart of stone or flinty.