I sung sometimes (John Wilbye)

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• (Posted 2011-08-29)  CPDL #24301:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-08-29).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 61 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: I sung sometimes
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1598 in The First Set of Madrigals for 3-6 voices, no. 21
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English text

I sung sometimes my thoughts’ and fancy's pleasure,
Where then I list, or time serv’d best and leisure,
While Daphne did invite me
To supper once, and drank to me to spite me.
I smil’d, yet still did doubt her,
And drank where she had drank before, to flout her.
But oh while I did eye her,
My eyes drank love, my lips drank burning fire.