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Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2002-07-30).   Score information: A4, 18 pages, 316 kB    Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Revised April 2008.

General Information

Title: Infelix ego
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cantiones sacrae II (1591), nos.24-26

Description: Motet in three parts.

Prima pars: Infelix ego
Secunda pars: Quid igitur faciam
Tertia pars: Ad te igitur

A setting of the beginning of the Meditation on the Miserere by Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98), written the day before his execution for heresy.

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Original text and translations

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How unhappy I feel: there is no one I can ask for help, as I have broken the laws of both earth and heaven. So which way can I turn? Who can I run to? Who will take pity on me? I dare not look up to heaven, as I have sinned against it grievously. I can find no refuge on earth, as I have been a scandal to it also.

What then can I do? Despair? I shall not. God is merciful, my Saviour will take pity on me. Then God alone shall be my refuge, he will not despise the work of his own hands, his own image he will not turn away.

To you then, most merciful God, I come in sadness and penitence. You are my only hope, my only refuge. But what can I say to you? Since I dare not look up to heaven, let me pour out words of sorrow, let me beg for your mercy and say:

Have mercy on me, according to your infinite loving kindness.

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