Call for the reckoning, Z 244 (Henry Purcell)

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• (Posted 2022-06-07)  CPDL #69620:     

Editor: Raymond Nagem (submitted 2022-06-07).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 71 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Call for the reckoning, Z 244
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: 3 equal voices
Genre: Secular, Canon

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: One of Purcell's comic catches. From The Catch Club or Merry Companions (London: John Walsh, c. 1700).

Original text and translations

English text

Call for the Reck'ning, and let us be gone,
Such careless attendance sure never was known.

Pray ring the Bell till the Drawers come up,
Nay prithee pull on, tho' you break the Rope.

Why sure they're asleep, a pox take 'em all.
Oh now they come sneaking with "Gentlemen, d'ye call?"