Witness, ye heavens (Giles Farnaby)

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General Information

Title: Witness, ye heavens
Composer: Giles Farnaby

Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSSAATBB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Canzonets to Four Voices (1598)

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Original text and translations

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Witness ye heav'ns, I vow to love the fairest,
to love, but how? For virtue, not for lust, for virtue.
Why? Because she is the rarest.
Come life, come death, in her I only trust;
hap death, hap life, I force not which betide me,
by her I live, from death I cannot hide me.