If love and all the world were young (Samuel Webbe)

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  • (Posted 2022-01-03)  CPDL #67377:  Network.png
Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-03).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Prepared from the primary source.
  • (Posted 2014-06-01)  CPDL #32150:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2014-06-01).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The octave-below-treble clef of the source has been retained for the Alto part. Appoggiature interpreted as normal notes. Novello's bowdlerization

General Information

Title: If love and all the world were young
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Walter Raleigh

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: ATTB or TTTB
Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: c.1795 (n/d)
    2nd published: 1852 Novello's Glee Hive no.52
Description: Composed at the request of the Earl of Sandwich. The text is Sir Walter Raleigh's riposte to Christopher Marlowe's Come live with me, and be my love. In the Novello edition, the text is bowdlerized in high-Victorian fashion, to avoid the word "breed"; Jane Austen's ladies of breeding would have found nothing objectionable in the text as originally offered.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at If love and all the world were young.