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- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2009-03-12). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 97 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: I laid me down
Composer: William Byrd
Lyricist: William Leighton
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: AATTB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1614 in The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule, no. 31
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
I laid mee downe to rest and slept,
and in the morning rose againe,
God me sustaind, and safely kept,
and by his grace did me maintaine:
His Angels pitcht me round about,
sleeping and waking keeping me,
both comming in and going out,
they guard me with security.