Sweet Gemma (Thomas Bateson)

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CPDL #25712:    [ Capella] 

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-06).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 47 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Sweet Gemma
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1604

Description: No. 15 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson). 1st part of a 2-part madrigal, the 2nd part being Yet stay, alway

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English text

Sweet Gemma, when I first beheld thy beauty,
I vow’d thee service, honour, love and duty;
O then, O then, I said the best
Is hither come to make me blest;
But thou, alas! sweet thou
Dost not regard my vow!
Go, go, let me not see
Cruel, though fairest thee.