Cease mine eyes (Thomas Morley)

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• CPDL #14945:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 39 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #00744:  PDF, MIDI and ABC files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2000-03-14).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: In partbook format

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Title: Cease mine eyes
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Three Voices (1593)

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Original text and translations

English text

Cease mine eyes,
cease your lamenting,
O cease, alas
this your lamenting,
in vaine you hope,
of hir hard harts relenting,
o cease your flowing:
drop not so fast,
drop not where no grace is growing.
See shee laughes, shee smiles,
shee playes with gladnesse,
See shee laughes, shee smiles,
shee playes and smyles with joy and gladnesse,
see shee laughes, she smyles,
she playes, she laughes,
she smyles, she playes,
see shee laughes, and smyles,
and playes with joy and gladnesse:
to see your griefe and sadnesse,
O Love thou are abused,
Never was true love so scornefully thus,
O thus used.
O Love, thou art abused,
never was true love so scornefully thus,
O thus used.