Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets (Thomas Bateson)

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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-03-12).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets
Composer: Thomas Bateson

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1604

Description: No. 24 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson).

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English text

Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets
She trips and leaps as gallants do,
Up to the hills and down again;
To the valleys runs she to and fro.
But out, alas, when frosty locks
Begirts the head with care and pain,
Peace! laugh no more. Such youthful pranks,
Slow-crawling age forbids again.