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The Nightingale (William Byrd)
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- Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2003-10-21). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 110 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Revised May 2008
General Information
Title: The Nightingale
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Songs of sundrie natures (1589), no.9
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Original text and translations
English text
The Nightingale so pleasant & so gay,
in greenewood groves, delights to make his dwelling,
in fields to flye, chanting his roundelaye,
at lyberty, against the Cage rebelling.
But my poore hart with sorowes over swelling,
through bondayge vyle, bynding my freedome short,
no pleasure takes in these his sports excelling,
nor in his song receiveth no comfort.
