Fair Phyllis I Saw

Fair Phyllis by John Farmer is a four English madrigal, published in 1599. It alternates between triple and duple meter.

Trumept parts provided in C and B♭

Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
Feeding her flock near to the mountain side.
The shepherds knew not,they knew not whither she was gone,
But after her lover Amyntas hied,
Up and down he wandered
whilst she was missing;
When he found her,
O then they fell a-kissing.