List of works by John Wilbye

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Page numbers refer to the editions published by The Musical Antiquarian Society ca.1846.

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Title or first line Voices Madrigal Set Page PL #
Fly, Love, aloft 3 First 1 1.01
Away! Thou shalt not love 3 First 5 1.02
Ay me, can every rumor 3 First 8 1.03
Weep, O mine eyes 3 First 11 1.04
Dear Pity, how wouldst thou become her? 3 First 14 1.05
Ye restless thoughts 3 First 17 1.06
What needeth all this travail 4 First 21 1.07a
O fools! Can you not see 4 First 23 1.07b
Alas! what hope of speeding 4 First 27 1.08
Lady, when I behold 4 First 31 1.09
Thus saith my Cloris bright 4 First 35 1.10
Adieu sweet Amarillis 4 First 38 1.11
Die hapless man 5 First 41 1.12
I fall, I fall, O stay me 5 First 46 1.13a
And though, my love abounding 5 First 51 1.13b
I always beg, yet never am relieved 5 First 55 1.14a
Thus love commands 5 First 59 1.14b
Lady, your words do spite me 5 First 62 1.15
Alas, what a wretched life is this 5 First 67 1.16
Unkind, O stay thy flying 5 First 71 1.17
I sung sometimes my thoughts 5 First 75 1.18
Flora gave me fairest flowers 5 First 82 1.19
Sweet love, if thou wilt gain 6 First 86 1.20
Lady, when I behold 6 First 91 1.21
When shall my wretched life 6 First 99 1.22
Of joys and pleasing pains 6 First 104 1.23a
My throat is sore 6 First 110 1.23b
Cruel, behold my heavy ending! 6 First 116 1.24
Thou art but young, thou sayest 6 First 122 1.25
Why dost thou shoot? 6 First 127 1.26
Come shepherd swains 3 Second missing 2.01
Flourish ye hillock 3 Second missing 2.02
Ah, cruel Amarillis 3 Second 8 2.03
So light is love 3 Second 12 2.04
As fayre as morne 3 Second 16 2.05
Oh! what shall I do? 3 Second 19 2.06
I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe 3 Second 24 2.07
There is a jewell 3 Second 27 2.08
When Cloris heard 4 Second 32 2.09
Happy streams, whose trembling fall 4 Second 36 2.10
Change me, O heavens, into a ruby stone 4 Second 42 2.11
Love not me for comely grace 4 Second 48 2.12
Fly not so swift, my dear 4 Second 53 2.13
I love, alas, yet am not loved 4 Second 60 2.14
As matchless beauty thee a phoenix proves 4 Second 65 2.15
Happy, Oh! happy he 4 Second 70 2.16
Sweet honey sucking bees 5 Second 75 2.17a
Yet sweet, take heed 5 Second 81 2.17b
All pleasure is of this condition 5 Second 89 2.18
Oft have I vow'd 5 Second 96 2.19
Down in a valley as Alexis trips 5 Second 104 2.20
Hard destinies are love and beauty 5 Second 111 2.21
Weep, weep, mine eyes 5 Second 120 2.22
There where I saw her lovely beauty painted 5 Second 126 2.23
Ye that do live in pleasures plenty 5 Second 134 2.24
A silly Sylvan, kissing Heav'n born fire 5 Second 141 2.25
O wretched man, Why lov'st thou earthly life? 6 Second 149 2.26
Where most my thoughts 6 Second 155 2.27a
Despiteful thus unto myself, I languish 6 Second 161 2.27b
Ah, cannot sighs nor tears 6 Second 169 2.28
Draw on, sweet night 6 Second 176 2.29
Stay, Corydon, thou swain 6 Second 185 2.30
softly, O! drop, mine eyes 6 Second 194 2.31
Long have I made these hills and valleys weary 6 Second 203 2.32
The lady Oriana 6 Second (suppl.) 1 3.01
I am quite tired 4 Second (suppl.) 9 3.03
O God, the rock 5 Second (suppl.) 12 3.03