As ever I saw (Peter Warlock)
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- (Posted 2020-09-23) CPDL #60665:
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2020-09-23). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 309 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: As ever I saw
Composer: Peter Warlock
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: T
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1919
Description: A musical setting of a 16th/17th Century text from British Library Harleian MS 7578, folio 85. For a setting based on the original music to the same words see As ever I saw
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Original text and translations
Early Modern English text
My lady is a prety on, a prety, prety, prety on My lady is a prety on, as ever I saw.
She is gentyll and also wysse
Of all other she berith the price
that ever I saw.
To here hir syng, to se her dance
she wyll the best herself advance
that ever I saw.
To se her fyngers that be so small,
In my consait she passeth all
that euer I saw.
Nature in her hath wonderly wroght,
Crist never sych a nother bowght
that ever I saw.
I haue sene many that have bowty.
Yet is ther non like to my lady,
that euer I saw.
therefor I dare this boldly say,
I shall have the best and farest may,*
that ever I saw.
My lady is a prety on, etc.</>
- "may" = “mate"