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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
 
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<poem>
Beauty is a lovely sweet,  
Beauty is a lovely sweet,  
Where pure white and crimson meet.
Where pure white and crimson meet.
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But if virtue might be seen,
But if virtue might be seen,
It would more delight the eyne.
It would more delight the eyne.
</poem>
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  • CPDL #25690:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-04).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Because the alto part is very low in places, it has been set in the octave-below-treble clef.

General Information

Title: Beauty is a lovely sweet
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1604

Description: No. 1 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson)


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Original text and translations

English.png English text

Beauty is a lovely sweet,
Where pure white and crimson meet.
Join’d with favour of the face,
Chiefest flow’r of female race.
But if virtue might be seen,
It would more delight the eyne.