Ego Dilecto Meo

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Ego Dilecto Meo

Ego Dilecto Meo

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This motet, commissioned by His Majesty's Men, takes its text from the Canticle of Canticles (6:2, 3, 8, 9; 7:11).

For ATTBB.

Duration: ~ 5 min.

Sponsa: Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia.

Sponsus: Pulchra es, amica mea; suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata. Una est columba mea, perfecta mea, una est matris suae, electa genetrici suae. Viderunt eam filiae, et beatissimam praedicaverunt; reginae et concubinae, et laudaverunt eam. Quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?

Sponsa: Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis.

TRANSLATION:

Bride: I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies.

Bridegroom: Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array. One is my dove, my perfect one, the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her. Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun?

Bride: Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field.