Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly (Robert Jones)

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• CPDL #32908:  Finale 2004

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2014-09-11).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 135 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down from G

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Title: Fair Oriana seeming to wink at folly
Composer: Robert Jones
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Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

English text

Fair Oriana, seeming to wink at folly,
Lay softly down a-sleeping,
But hearing that the world was grown unholy
her rest was turned to weeping,
So waked, she sighed, and with crossed arms,
sat drinking tears for others' harms.
Then sang the Nymphs and shepherds of Diana,
Long live fair Oriana.