For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd (Henry Purcell)
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Title: For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: John Dryden
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1691
Description: Duet taken from Orpheus Britannicus, published 1721. Originally a verse from the act 4 Passacaille of King Arthur.
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Original text and translations
English text
For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd by his Nature:
No Joyes are above the pleasures of Love.



