Flow not so fast ye fountaines (John Dowland)

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• CPDL #16837: MIDI and NoteWorthy Composer 2.

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-05-07).   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original SATB version. Files listed alphabetically by nationality and composer. Some composers have separate pages available from their country of origin page.

• CPDL #4685: PDF, MIDI and LilyPond files available.

Editor: Eva Toller (submitted 2003-03-25).   Score information: A4   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: see under "Women's Choir" on the main page, arranged by for women's voices by Eva Toller; MIDI files available for each part.

General Information

Title: Flow not so fast ye fountaines
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 4 or 5vv  Voicing: SATB or SSAAA
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: No VIII from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)

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Original text and translations

English text

Flow not so fast, ye fountains;
What needeth all this haste?
Swell not above your mountains,
Nor spend your time in waste.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.

Weep they apace whom Reason
Or ling'ring Time can ease.
My sorrow can no Season,
Nor aught besides, appease.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.

Time can abate the terror
Of every common pain;
But common grief is error,
True grief will still remain.
Gentle springs, freshly your salt tears
Must still fall dropping from their spheres.