Love delights the giddy lad (Samuel Webbe)

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• (Posted 2023-09-10)  CPDL #75313: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-09-10).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 256 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Love delights the giddy lad
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATBB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1794 Warren's thirty-second collection
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Original text and translations

English text

Love delights the giddy lad,
Prudent age to claret flies;
For to love is to be mad,
But to drink is to be wise.
With Copernican myst'ries have done;
Let the earth turn around or the sun:
Such arguments always decline.
What needs such elaborate pother,
Since the turning of one or the other
Will ripen the juice of the vine?