Gather your rosebuds while you may - Lawes, William

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⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → STB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range G2 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 8

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 1

CPDL # 32623

Editor Jonathan Goodliffe

Posted 2014-08-05

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Treble

G4 – E5

Tenor

F#3 – E4

Bass

G2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

<small>Altered in the source from the original poem</small> Gather your* rosebuds while you* may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; Expect not the last and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye may, go marry; For, having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.   * The original poem has ''ye''.