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Then sit thee down and say thy 'Nunc dimittis' (John Dowland)
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General Information
Title: Then sit thee downe,& say thy Nunc demittis (Second part)
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Languages: English, Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: No VII from Second Book of Songs or Ayres (1600)
Description: Second part of three
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Original text and translations
English and
Latin text
Then sit thee down, and say thy Nunc Dimittis,
with De profundis, Credo, and Te Deum,
Chant Miserere for what now so fit is,
as that, or this, Paratum est cor meum,
O that thy Saint would take in worth thy heart,
thou canst not please her with a better part.
O that thy part.



