I feign not friendship where I hate (Orlando Gibbons)

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• (Posted 2025-07-24)  CPDL #86063:     

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2025-07-24).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 103 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Part 4 of 4. 1st system may be found at the end of the previous part (I see Ambition never pleased).

• (Posted 2025-07-06)  CPDL #85806:   

Editor: Nalei HU (submitted 2025-07-06).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 122 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 这是译配的中文版《明志吟》(打开文件请点击上面的’pdf’标志)；您若有兴趣关注我译配的其他中文歌谱，请点击上面 Editor: 右边的 Nalei HU 链接，或者点击： Chinese。

• (Posted 2017-10-29)  CPDL #47106:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-10-29).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of an edition by Harrie Collins, with minor adjustments to slurring.

General Information

Title: I feign not friendship where I hate
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1612 in The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets, no. 6
    2nd published: 1900 in Ausgewählte Madrigale und mehrstimmige Gesänge , Book III, no. 3
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English text

I feign not friendship where I hate,
I fawn not on the great for grace,
I prize, I praise a mean estate,
Ne yet too lofty, nor too base,
This, this is all my choice, my cheer,
A mind content, and conscience clear.