The mad lover (De la Sale)

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• (Posted 2022-08-09)  CPDL #70322:         

Editor: Wim Looyestijn (submitted 2022-08-09).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 118 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: The mad lover
Composer: De la Sale
Lyricist: De la Sale
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Lute song

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1694 in: The Gentlemen's Journal, or the Monthly Miscellany; June 1694, pg. 179-180
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

I love to Madness, rave t'enjoy,
but heaps of Wealth my Progress bar;
Curse on the Load that stops my way,
my Love's more rich and brighter far:
Were I prest under Hills of Gold,
my furious sighs should make my'escape,
I'd sigh, and blow up all the Mould,
and thro the Oar, the Oar in Celia's Lap.

Were thou some Peasant, mean and small,
and all the spatious Globe were mine,
I'd give the World the Sun and all,
for one kind brighter Glance of thine.
This Hour let Celia with me live,
And Gods cou'd I but of you borrow,
I'd give what only you can give,
For that dear Hour, I'd give to morrow.

(Note: “Celia” may be replaced by any name)