Ye restless thoughts (John Wilbye)
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- CPDL #24209: Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-21). Score information: A4 (landscape), 3 pages, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Ye restless thoughts
Composer: John Wilbye
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1598
Description: No.6 from The 1st Set of Madrigals
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Original text and translations
English text
Ye restless thoughts, that harbour discontent,
Cease your assaults and let my heart lament,
And let my tongue have leave to tell my grief,
That she may pity, though not grant relief.
Pity would help, alas, what love hath almost slain,
And salve the wound that fester'd this disdain.