Love (Joseph Cox Bridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75810:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 798 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Love
Composer: Joseph Cox Bridge
Lyricist: Robert Jones
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1904 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Love is a prettie frenzie,
A melancholy fire,
    Begot by lookes,
    Maintain’d with hopes,
And heithend by desire.

Love is a prettie tyrant,
By our affections armed,
    Take them away,
    None lives this day,
The coward boy hath harm’d.

Love is a prettie painter,
And counterfeiteth passion;
    His shadow’d lies
    Make fansies rise,
To set beliefe in fashion.

Love is a prettie pedlar,
Whose packe is fraught with sorrowes,
    With doubtes, with feares,
    With sighs, with teares,
Some joyes; but those he borrowes.

Love is a prettie nothing,
Yet what a quoile it keepes,
    With thousand eyes
    Of jealousies,
Yet no one ever sleepes.

The Muses’ Gardin for Delights (1611)