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Alas, what hope of speeding (John Wilbye)
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= HELP- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-20). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 54 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Based on #7721, with some simplified barring. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
- Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Alas, what hope of speeding
Composer: John Wilbye
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1598
Description: No.9 from The 1st Set of Madrigals
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Original text and translations
English text
Alas what hope of speeding
Where hope beguiled lies bleeding?
She bade come when she spied me,
And when I came she flied me.
Thus when I was beguiled,
She at my sighing smiled.
But if you take such pleasure
Of hope and joy, my treasure,
By deceit to bereave me,
Love me, and so deceive me.
