Come, blessed bird (Edward Johnson)
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- Editor: Gary D. Cannon (submitted 2020-06-03). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 77 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Roel Griffioen (submitted 2006-05-19). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Come, blessed bird
Composer: Edward Johnson
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: vocal
First published: 1601 in The Triumphs of Oriana, no. 24
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, come, blessed bird,
and with thy sugared relish
help our declining choir now to embellish,
For Bonnyboots, for Bonnyboots,
that so aloft would fetch it,
Ohe is dead and none of us can reach it.
Then tune to us,
sweet bird, thy shrill recorder,
and Elpin, and I, and Dorus,
for fault of better,
will serve in the chorus:
Begin and we will follow thee in order,
Then sang the woodborn minstrel of Diana:
Long live fair Oriana.