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'.

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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.