Hold out my heart (Thomas Morley)

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• CPDL #14959:  NoteWorthy Composer

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2007-09-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #00608:  PDF, MIDI and ABC files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 1999-12-07).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 697 kB   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: In partbook format

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Title: Hold out my heart
Composer: Thomas Morley

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1593

Description: No. 5 from Canzonets for three voices

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English text

Hold out my heart, with joy's delights accloyed,
O hold thou out my heart, and show it,
That all the world may know it,
What sweet content thou lately hast enjoyed;
She that, "Come dear", would say,
Then laugh and run away,
And if I stayed her, thus would she then cry,
"Nay, fie for shame", my true love true not regarding;
hath giv'n my love now at length his full rewarding.
So that unless I may tell the joys that overfill me,
My joys kept in, I know in time will kill me.