Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers (Thomas Tomkins)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-05-07). Copyright: GnuGPDL
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- Editor: Vince M. Brennan (submitted 2005-11-15). Score information: Letter, 9 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Copyright (c) 2004 V. M. Brennan
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Title: Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers
Composer: Thomas Tomkins
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1605
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Original text and translations
English text
Adieu, ye city pris'ning towers,
Better are the country bowers.
Winter is gone, the trees are springing,
Birds on ev'ry hedge sit singing.
Hark, how they chirp, come, love, delay not,
come, come, sweet love, O, come and stay not.