Once did I serve a cruel heart (Robert Jones)
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- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2008-12-01). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 256 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Parts in score (Bassus with complet editorial text underlay) with lute in tabulature
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-10-16). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Listed alphabetically under composer's name.
- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2006-10-03). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 357 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Text underlay in bass part is editorial as orginal only has incipit. The lute part is in modern staff notation.
General Information
Title: Once did I serve a cruell hart
Composer: Robert Jones
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or lute
Published: 1609
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Original text and translations
English text
Once did I serve a cruel heart,
with faith unfeign'd I still importune
her piercing looks that wrought my smart,
she laughs and smiles at my misfortune
and says perhaps you may at last
by true desart love's favor taste.