With my flock as walkèd I (Geoffrey Shaw)

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• (Posted 2023-12-07)  CPDL #77914:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 413 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: With my flock as walkèd I
Composer: Geoffrey Shaw
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1916 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Six Traditional Melodies, No. 6

Original text and translations

English text

With my flock as walkèd I
The plains and mountains over,
Late a damsel pass’d me by;
With an intent to move her,
I stept in her way, she stept awry;
But oh, I shall ever love her!

Such a face she had, for to
Invite any man to love her,
But her coy behaviour taught
That it was in vain to move her.
For divers so this dame hath wrought
That they themselves might move her.

Let her know, though fair she be,
That there is a pow’r above her.
Thousands more enamoured ahall be
Though little it will move her.
She still doth vow virginity
When all the world doth love her.

16th Century