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Ay mee, Can every rumor (John Wilbye)

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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-09-09).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 51 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Modern notation and spelling. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
Editor: Anders Stenberg (submitted 2005-11-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 539 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Ay mee, Can every rumor
Composer: John Wilbye

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA or SST
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1598

Description: No.3 from The 1st Set of Madrigals

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Original text and translations

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Ay me; can every rumour
Thus start my lady's humour?
Name ye some gallant to her
Why straight forsooth I woo her.
Then burst she forth in passion:
You men love but for fashion.
Yet sure I am that no man
Ever so loved woman.
Yet, alas, Love, be wary
For women be contrary.

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