The shepherd Claius (Henry Lichfield)

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• (Posted 2024-09-15)  CPDL #81973: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-09-15).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 111 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: The shepherd Claius
Composer: Henry Lichfield
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella

First published: 1613
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English text

The shepherd Claius, seeing
His lovely Daphne flying,
He wept with deep lamenting,
His poor, poor heart tormenting.
But oh, the shepherd, when they met together,
To live or die for joy he knew not whether.

First with looks he lived and died,
Then with sighs her faith he tried;
After sighs he sent his tears,
All to shew his trembling tears,
At last he said: "A truer heart was never.
Oh pity Daphne; disdain me not for ever".