Sleep, slumb'ring eyes (Thomas Morley)

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• (Posted 2017-03-07)  CPDL #43459:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-03-07).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 38 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #16211, with minor adjustments to underlay.

• (Posted 2008-02-19)  CPDL #16211:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-02-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 18 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Sleep, slumb'ring eyes
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Lute song

Language: English
Instruments: Lute

First published: 1600 in First Book of Ayres, no. 18
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Original text and translations

English text

Sleep, slumb'ring eyes; give rest unto my cares,
My cares, the infants of my troubled brain;
My cares surpris'd, surpris'd with black despair,
Doth the assertion of my hopes restrain.
Sleep then, my eyes, O sleep and take your rest,
To banish sorrow from a freeborn breast.

My freeborn breast, born free to sorrow's smart,
Brought in subjection by my wand'ring eye,
Whose trait'rous sight conceiv'd that to my heart
For which I wail, I sob, I sigh, I die.
Sleep then, my eyes, disturb'd of quiet rest,
To banish sorrow from my captive breast.

My captive breast, stung by these glist'ring stars,
These glist'ring stars, the beauty of the sky,
That bright black sky which doth the sunbeams bar
From her sweet comfort on my heart's sad eye.
Wake, then, my eyes, true partners of unrest,
For sorrow still must harbour in my breast.