Where be ye, my love (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2024-01-19)  CPDL #78810:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-01-19).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 352 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Where be ye, my love
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for SATB of an anonymous poem dating from the early sixteenth century. Solo verses are intended to be sung from within the choir.

Original text and translations

English text

Wher be ye my love, my love,
And wher be ye gone?
I am so sad
To make me glad
Yt is but yow my love alone.

Yower company
Makes me so mery
From care and from all mone
But when ye mysse [but when you are absent]
No Joy it is
But yow my love alone, alone.

When ye be hens
With your absence
My myrth and joy is gone
Me to comfort
Is no resort
But yow my love alone, alone.

The tyme passyng
To daunce or syng,
To swage sum what my mone [to assuage somewhat my moan]
Is nothing
No comforting
But yow my love alone, alone.

Thus with my care
With your welfare
Crist kepe you from your fone [Christ keep you from your foes]
And God above
Kepe yor love
For yow have mine my love alone.