O mistress mine (Paul Ambrose)

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• (Posted 2023-09-15)  CPDL #75421:       

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-15).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 480 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: O mistress mine
Composer: Paul Ambrose
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1897 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming
    That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting—
    Every wise man’s son doth know.

What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
    What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,—
Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,
    Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

“Twelfth Night” Act 2, Scene 3