I thought that Love had been a boy (William Byrd)
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- CPDL #4343: Sibelius 4
- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2002-12-10). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised May 2008
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Title: I thought that love had been a boy
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Songs of sundrie natures (1589), no.32
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Original text and translations
English text
I thought that love had beene a boy, with blinded eies,
or else some other wanton toy, that men devise,
like tales of fayries often told,
by doting age that dies for cold.