Now is my Cloris fresh as May (Thomas Weelkes)
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- CPDL #25303:
Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformating of #12646.
- CPDL #12646: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-09-18). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- CPDL #10198:
- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-19). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 125 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 by V. M. Brennan
General Information
Title: Now is my Cloris fresh as May
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1598
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Original text and translations
English text
1. Now is my Cloris fresh as May,
All clad in green and flowers gay:
Fa la la.
O, must I think August were near,
That harvest joy might soon appear:
Fa la la.
2. But she keeps May throughout the year
And August never comes the near:
Fa la la.
Yet I will hope, though she be May,
August will come another day:
Fa la la.