Cease sorrows now (Thomas Weelkes)

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• CPDL #15830:

Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2008-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 148 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #9283:

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: Letter   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #7720: Sibelius

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 108 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Cease sorrows now
Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Number of voices: 3vv  Voicing: SAT or ATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

Cease, sorrows, now, for you have done the deed,
lo, care hath now consum'd my carcase quite,
no hope is left, nor help can stand instead,
for doleful death doth cut off pleasure quite,
yet, whilst I hear the knolling of the bell
before I die, I'll sing my faint farewell.