It is not that I love you less (James Oswald)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-05-15).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 141 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: It is not that I love you less
Composer: James Oswald
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high
Genre: SecularAria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: c.1755 (n/d)
Description: Published in "Amaryllis", London; a collection of "such songs as are most esteemed for composition and delicacy and sung at the Publick Theatres or Gardens".

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Original text and translations

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It is not that I love you less
Than when before your feet I lay,
But to prevent the sad increase
Of hopeless love, I keep away.

But 'tis in vain; for all those things
Which I have known belong to you,
Thy image to my fancy brings,
And all my former pains renew.