Lady, if you so spite me (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)
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- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2014-05-07). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 94 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Lady, if you so spite me
Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco I
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: From Musica Transalpina. The text has some similarity to John Wilbye's Lady your words do spite me.
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Original text and translations
English text
Lady, if you so spite me,
wherefore do you so oft kiss and delight me,
sure that my heart oppressed and overjoyed
may break and be destroyed.
If you seek so to spill me,
come kiss me sweet and kill me.
So shall your heart be eased,
and I shall rest content, and die well pleased.