by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991)
Now Edward was a king
Language: English
Now Edward was a king, but he was ill and slight. And so it passed, my friends, that he did die one night. Jane Grey was sore frightened but she was Tudor born. And to the council chamber went the maiden so forlorn. Now Jane will be a queen and wear a velvet gown, with jewels upon her bosom and with a golden crown.
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Text Authorship:
- by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991), "Ballad", written 1975, appears in The Chronicle of Nine Days of Jane Grey, no. 8 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arnold Rosner (1945 - 2013), "Now Edward was a king", op. 81 no. 3 (1984), from opera The Chronicle of Nine, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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