Now each flowery bank of May (Orlando Gibbons)

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• CPDL #20817:  [ ] [ ] [ ]

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-13).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 114 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a tone to G minor. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

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Title: Now each flowery bank of May
Composer: Orlando Gibbons

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

English text

Now each flowery bank of May,
Woos the streams that glide away,
Mountains fanned by a sweet gale,
Loves the humble-looking dale,
Winds the loved leaves do kiss,
Each thing tasteth of love's bliss.
Only I, though blest I be
To be loved by destiny,
Love confessed by her sweet breath,
Whose love is life, whose hate is death.