No more be griev'd - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going collection of SAB music; "Book of Sonnets.""

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SAB ¶ Language → English

Parts 3

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 69127

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2022-05-08

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud, Clouds and eclipses stain both Moon and Sun And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults and even I in this, Authorizing thy trespass with compare, My self corrupting, salving thy amiss, Excusing thy sins more than their sins are: For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense, Thy adverse party is thy Advocate And 'gainst my self a lawful plea commence: Such civil war is in my love and hate That I an accessary needs must be To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. ''William Shakespeare (Sonnet XXXV)''

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