Lo, here I leave my heart in keeping (Michael East)

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• (Posted 2025-03-27)  CPDL #84319: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-03-27).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 100 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Lo, here I leave my heart in keeping
Composer: Michael East
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composer^{create page}
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1610 Third set of Bookes
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English text

Lo, here I leave my heart in keeping
With her that laughs to see me weeping.
What comfort or what treasure
Is life with her displeasure?
Break heart, and die,
That she, which still doth pain me,
May live the more content,
When grief hath slain me.