Why weeps, alas! my lady-love (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-12-23). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 98 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Why weeps, alas! my lady-love
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1878 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 11, no. 323
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Original text and translations
English text
Why weeps, alas! my lady-love and mistress dear?
What though I leave thee,
My life may fail,
But I will not deceive thee!