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Epitaph on a Dormouse (Benjamin Cooke)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2008-05-15).   Score information: A4, 4 pages   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
Editor: Robert Nottingham (submitted 2006-04-20).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 61 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Epitaph on a Dormouse
Composer: Benjamin Cooke

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: from "A collection of glees, catches and canons composed by Benjamin Cooke, organist of Westminster Abbey". London, c.1780

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

In paper case, hard by this place,
Dead a poor dormouse lies;
And soon or late, summon'd by fate,
Each prince, each monarch dies.

Ye sons of verse, while we rehearse,
Attend instructive rhyme;
No sins had Dor to answer for:
Repent of yours in time.

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