If Musick be the food of Love (Henry Purcell)
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Title: If Musick be the food of Love
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1692-5
Description: This solo setting is from Orpheus Britannicus.
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Original text and translations
English text
If Musick be the food of Love,
Sing on till I am fill'd with joy;
for then my listning Soul you move,
to pleasures that can never, cloy;
your Eyes, your Mean, your tongue declare,
that you are Musick ev'rywhere.
Pleasures invade both Eye and Ear,
so fierce the transports are, they wound,
and all my Senses feasted are;
tho' yet the Treat is only sound,
sure I must perish by your Charms,
unless you save me in your Armes.
