O sweet alas what say you (Thomas Morley)

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Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 36 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: O sweet alas what say you
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SSAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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English text

O sweet, alas, what say you?
Ay me, that face discloses
The scarlet blush of sweet vermilion roses.
And yet, alas,
I know not if such a crimson staining
be for love or disdaining.
But if of love it grow not,
be it disdain conceived,
to see us of love's fruits so long bereaved.