Like sparkling champagne (Jonathan Battishill)

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• (Posted 2022-08-11)  CPDL #70382: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-08-11).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 859 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Like sparkling champagne
Composer: Jonathan Battishill
Lyricist: David Garrick
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo, strings accompaniment

First published: c.1766
Description: Sung by James Dodd in a production of Garrick's The Foundling, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Original text and translations

English text

Like sparkling champagne,
Rosy mounts to the brain.
And so tingles in every part:
Her fire comes so quick,
Her shots fly so thick
No quarter she gives to the heart.

Fidelia demure,
More slow but as sure,
Her mischief will greatly impart;
Will day after day
Steal your senses away,
And then steal away with your heart.

But I who knw both,
To one should be loth,
So manage the matter with art:
I laugh at the trick
Of the slow and the quick,
And then steal away with your heart.