I must complain, yet do enjoy - Dowland, John

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Madrigals

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 33

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 3

CPDL # 24112

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2011-08-07

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

G4 – G5

Alto

C4 – B-4

Tenor

F3 – G4

Bass

G2 – B-3

Practice

G2 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

I must complain, yet do enjoy, enjoy my love, She is too fair, too rich in beauty's parts Thence is my grief for nature while she strove With all her graces and divinest arts, To form her too, too beautiful of hue She had no leisure, she had no leisure, no leisure left to make her true. Should I agrieved wish she were less, she were less fair, that were repugnant to my own desires, She is admired, new suitors still repair, That kindles daily love's forgetful fires, Rest jealous thoughts, and thus resolve at last, She hath more beauty, she hath more beauty, more beauty than becomes the chaste.