The Shepherd Doron’s jig - Stanford, Charles Villiers

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"Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 2], Opus 53, No. 6 (THE SHEPHERD DORON’S JIG)"

⌛ Period → Late Romantic

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 79497

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-03-12

License Personal

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From “Menaphon” (1589) Through the shrubs as I can crack For my lambs, little ones, ’Mongst many pretty ones,— Nymphs I mean, whose hair was black As the crow: Like as the snow Her face and browès shined I ween!— I saw a little one, A bonny pretty one, As bright, buxom, and as sheen As was she On her knee That lulled the god, whose arrow warms Such merry little ones, Such fair-faced pretty ones As dally in Love’s chiefest harms: Such was mine, Whose grey eyne Made me love. I gan to woo This sweet little one, This bonny pretty one. I wooed hard a day or two, Till she bade ‘Be not sad, Woo no more, I am thine own, Thy dearest little one, Thy truest pretty one.’ Thus was faith and firm love shown, As behoves Shepherds’ loves.

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