O sweet kiss, full of comfort (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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• (Posted 2017-02-20)  CPDL #43234:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-02-20).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #31885, with minor changes to underlay.

• (Posted 2014-05-07)  CPDL #31885:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: O sweet kiss, full of comfort
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1588 in Musica Transalpina, Edition 1, no. 36

Description: From Musica Transalpina.

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Original text and translations

English text

O sweet kiss, full of comfort,
O joy to me envied
So often sought, so oft to me denied.

For thee my life is wasted,
Yet thee I never tasted,
O lips so false and wily
that me to kiss provoked,
and shrunk so slyly.

O looks empois'ned
O face, well may I fear thee
that kill'st who thee beholds
and comes not near thee,
I die a death most painful,
Killed with unkindness,
Farewell sweet lips disdainful.

Killed with unkindness, I die,
Farewell sweet lips disdainful.