Like two proud armies (Thomas Weelkes)
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- Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2008-08-24). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 252 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Like two proud armies
Composer: Thomas Weelkes
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSATBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Written c.1600
First published: 1982 in Das Chorwerk, no. 132.7
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Original text and translations
English text
Like two proud armies marching in the field,
joining a thund'ring fight, each scorns to yield;
So in my heart, your beauty and my reason,
one claims the crown, the other says 'tis treason.
But O your beauty shineth as the sun
and dazzled reason yields as quite undone.