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O ye tender babes (Thomas Tallis)
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- Editor: Michael Gibson (submitted 2009-04-18). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 116 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed up by 3 semitones. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: O ye tender babes
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
O ye tender babes of England,
shake off slothfulness, set wantonness apart.
Apply your wits wholly to learning and virtue,
whereby you may do your duty to God and your King.
Make glad your parents, profit yourselves,
And much advance the commonweal of your country.
French translation
Ô vous, charmants bambins d’Angleterre,
défaites-vous de la paresse, tournez le dos au dévergondage.
Appliquez-vous de tout votre cœur à l’étude et à la vertu,
et vous accomplirez ainsi votre devoir envers Dieu et votre Roi.
Vous rendrez heureux vos parents, profiterez à vous-mêmes,
et ferez ainsi progresser l’intérêt public de votre pays.
