Say sweet Phyllis (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)

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• (Posted 2021-02-13)  CPDL #62889:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-02-13).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third. Source: Madrigals to five voices, selected out of the best approved Italian authors by Thomas Morley, pub. Thomas East, 1598.

General Information

Title: Say sweet Phyllis
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
Lyricist:

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

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1587 in Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque, no. 5
    2nd published: 1598 in Madrigals to five voices (ed. Thomas Morley) – English translation, no. 24
Description: A translation of Ferrabosco's madrigal 'Or un laccio un ardore'.

Original text and translations

English text

Say, sweet Phyllis, what thy will is.
Call thyself to mind,
cease his lamenting
which seeketh thy contenting.

If I for true love
shall be so rewarded,
if I for true love shall be so rewarded,
thou for thy crime shalt be no whit regarded.