I thought that Love had been a boy (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #04343:  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.