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
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format. Revised files uploaded 29/01/19.
General Information
Title: Fair Hebe, when dame Flora meets
Composer: Thomas Bateson
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: No. 24 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson).
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Original text and translations
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
Begirt the head with care and pain,
Peace! laugh no more. Such youthful pranks,
Slow-crawling age forbids again.