Hold out my heart (Thomas Morley)

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• (Posted 2012-04-14)  CPDL #25954:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-04-14).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #14959, with corrections.

• (Posted 2007-09-11)  CPDL #14959:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 1999-12-07)  CPDL #00608:  PDF, MIDI and ABC files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 1999-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 697 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: In partbook format.

General Information

Title: Hold out my heart
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SST or SSA
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1593 in Canzonets to Three Voices, no. 5
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Original text and translations

English text

Hold out my heart, with joy's delights accloyed,
O hold thou out my heart, and show it,
That all the world may know it,
What sweet content thou lately hast enjoyed;
She that, "Come dear", would say,
Then laugh and run away,
And if I stayed her, thus would she then cry,
"Nay, fie for shame, fie",
My true love true not regarding;
hath giv'n my love now at length his full rewarding.
So that, unless I may tell the joys that overfill me,
My joys kept in, I know in time will kill me.