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Weep, o mine eyes and cease not, [alas, these your spring tides methinks]1 increase not. O when begin you to swell so high that I may drown me in you?
1 Wilbye: "Your spring-tides, out alas, methinks"
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 John Bennet (1570 - 1610), "Weep, o mine eyes" [text verified 1 time]
- by Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623), "Weep, o mine eyes" [text verified 1 time]
- by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Weep, O mine eyes", published 1598 [ vocal trio], madrigal [text verified 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title unknown, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:19
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Pleurez, ô mes yeux, et ne cessez pas, Hélas, vos marées de vive eau me semblent ne pas augmenter. Oh, quand commencerez-vous à monter si haut Que je puisse me noyer en vous ?
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Text added to the website: 2011-06-01 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:04:24
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Word count: 34