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Why dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield me? | Why dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield me? | ||
I yield, (sweet love) spare then my wound-ed liver, | I yield, (sweet love) spare then my wound-ed liver, | ||
And do not make my heart thy arrow’s quiver. | And do not make my heart thy arrow’s quiver. | ||
O hold! What needs this shooting, when I yield me? | O hold! What needs this shooting, when I yield me?}} | ||
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[[Category:Renaissance music]] | [[Category:Renaissance music]] | ||
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- CPDL #24399:
[ Capella]
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-09-08). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: This version is SSATTB, in the original key.
General Information
Title: Why dost thou shoot?
Composer: John Wilbye
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1598
Description: No. 30 from The 1st Set of Madrigals. Original is set for SSSATB, but the Alto and Tenor have exactly the same range, rather low for the Alto.
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Original text and translations
English text
Why dost thou shoot, and I seek not to shield me?
I yield, (sweet love) spare then my wound-ed liver,
And do not make my heart thy arrow’s quiver.
O hold! What needs this shooting, when I yield me?