Cease sorrows now (Thomas Weelkes)

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• CPDL #15830: 

Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2008-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a 4th for ATB.

• CPDL #09283:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2005-08-30).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #07720:    Sibelius 

Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2004-08-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 108 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Cease sorrows now
Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SAT or ATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1597)

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English text

Cease, sorrows, now, for you have done the deed,
lo, care hath now consum'd my carcase quite,
no hope is left, nor help can stand instead,
for doleful death doth cut off pleasure quite,
yet, whilst I hear the knolling of the bell
before I die, I'll sing my faint farewell.