What haste fair Lady (Thomas Weelkes)
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- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-11-07). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 385 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: What haste fair Lady
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1597 in Madrigals to 3-6 voices, no. 18
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Original text and translations
English text
What haste, fair Lady,
Leave me not behind thee,
I faint alas, O stay thee,
Or else return and kill me,
For thus will I complain me,
O heav'ns! she doth disdain me.