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{{Genre|Secular|Madrigals}}
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'''Published:''' 1597
'''Published:''' 1597



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  • CPDL #25491:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-26).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: From the 1891 edition, edited by G. E. P. Arkwright, in the original key (SSTB). Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
  • CPDL #25486:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif [ Capella]
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-26).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: From the 1891 edition, edited by G. E. P. Arkwright, transposed down a major second from the original (SATB). Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Alas! what hope of speeding
Composer: George Kirbye

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
or SSTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1597

Description: No. 2 from The first set of English madrigalls to 4, 5 & 6 voyces (George Kirbye)

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Original text and translations

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Alas! what hope of speeding,
Where hope beguil'd lies bleeding?
She bade come, when she spy'd me,
And, when I came, she fly'd me.
Then, when I was beguiled,
She at my sighing smiled.
But if you take such pleasure
Of hope and joy, my treasure,
By deceit to bereave me,
Love me, and so deceive me.