Who likes to love - Byrd, William

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⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range A2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 31

Texture mixed texture

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 3

CPDL # 5823

Editor David Fraser

Posted 2003-10-21

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano The first singing part

G4 – G5

Alto

C4 – C5

Tenor

D3 – G4

Bass

A2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Who likes to love let him take heed, and wot you why? Among the Gods it is decreed that love shall die, and every wight that takes his part shall forfeit each a mourning heart. The cause is this as I have heard a sort of dames Whose beauty he did not regard Nor secret flames Complained before the gods above That gold corrupts the God of love. The gods did storm to hear this news and there they swore that sith he did such dames abuse he should no more be god of lovem but that he should both die and forfeit all his gold. His bow and shafts they took away before their eyes and gave these dames a longer day for to devise who should them keep, and they be bound that love for gold should not be found. These ladies, striving long, at last they did agree to give then to a maiden chaste, whom I did see, who with the same did pierce my heart her beauty's rare and so I rest.