Since first I saw your face (Thomas Ford)

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Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-03-16).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 22 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-01-14).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book.
Editor: Toby Wardman (submitted 2003-05-13).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 76 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: John D. Smith (submitted 2004-02-20).   Score information: 40.9 x 57.8 cm, 2 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Scores listed alphabetically by composer. All scores available in Scorch format, some are also available as PDF files.

General Information

Title: Since first I saw your face
Composer: Thomas Ford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

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Since first I saw your face I resolv’d
To honour and renown you;
If now I be disdain’d I wish
My heart had never known you.
What I that loved and you that liked,
Shall we begin to wrangle?
No, no, no! my heart is fast
And cannot disentangle.

The Sun, whose beams most glorious are,
Rejecteth no beholder,
And your sweet beauty past compare,
Made my poor eyes the bolder:
Where beauty moves and wit delights,
And signs of kindness bind me,
There, oh there! Where e’er I go
I leave my heart behind me.

If I desire or praise you too much,
That fault you may forgive me;
Or if my hands had strayed but a touch,
Then justly might you leave me.
I asked you leave, you bade me love;
Is now the time to chide me?
No, no, no! I'll love you still,
What fortune e’er betide me.