O sweet deceit - Byrd, William

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → SSATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range A2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 117

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments A cappella

Pages 10

CPDL # 23309

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2011-03-29

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano I

A3 – D5

Alto

F3 – C5

Tenor

D3 – A4

Bass

A2 – D4

Practice

A2 – G4

¶Lyrics / Text

O sweet deceit in speech contained; O sugar’d cup, wherein we drink our poison; O false disembl’d thoughts of most disdained; O subtle seas, that none can sound with reason! What Circe can with all her craft and witches, More mischief work than men with flatt’ring speeches? Like Harpias vile, which poets’ feigning graces To make the world the more at them to wonder, They say these people have fair women’s faces And claws that tear men’s hearts asunder; In court they dwell and make their occupation To cozen simple folk with adulation.