Mongst thousands good (Orlando Gibbons)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-11-03). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 65 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from the facsimile edition on IMSLP. Underlay is partly editorial, as are musica ficta. Modern clefs used and spelling modernised.
General Information
Title: 'Mongst thousands good
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1612 in The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets, no. 11
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Original text and translations
English text
'Mongst thousands good, one wanton dame to find,
Amongst the roses grow some wicked weeds,
For this was not to love but lust inclined,
For love doth always bring forth bounteous deeds,
And in each gentle heart desire of honour breeds.