Weeping full sore - Byrd, William

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/2

♬ Voicing → SATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range A2 – F5

¶ Language → English

Measures 94

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 84274

Editor Allen Garvin

Posted 2025-03-20

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial

♫Pitch Ranges

Superius

E4 – F5

Medius

G#3 – C5

Contratenor

E3 – A4

Tenor

D3 – F4

Bassus

A2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Weeping full sore, with face as fayre as silver, not wanting rose nor lily white to paint it, I saw a lady walke, fast by a river, uppon whose bankes Dianaes Nimphes all dawnced, her beauty great had divers gods inchaunted, among the which love was the first transformed, who unto her his bow and shafts had graunted, and by her sight, to adament was turned. Alas quoth I, what meaneth this demeanure, so faire a dame to be so full of sorowe: No wonder, quoth a Nimphe, she wanted pleasure, her teares and sighes ne ceasse from eave to morow: This lady, Rich is of the gifts of beauty, but unto her, are gifts of fortune daynty.