Imitative polyphony and moments of antiphony hearken back to the style of a Renaissance madrigal in this a cappella work for tenor-bass choirs. The text was adapted from John Fletcher's play The Maid's Tragedy, and Persall's original setting was for divisi mixed choir. This arrangement presents the work spatially as a combined divisi tenor-bass choir, or as an antiphonal setting for two TTBB choirs.