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Title: O, that the learned poets
Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSTTB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

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O, that the learned poets of this time
who in a lovesick line so well can speak,
would not consume good wit in hateful rhyme,
but with deep care some better subject find.
For if their music please in earthly things,
how would it sound if strung with heav'nly strings?