Amo, amas (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-10-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 109 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Amo, amas
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: John O'Keefecreate page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1782
Description: Included without attribution in Warren's twenty first collection of glees and catches. A different setting of the words had appeared the year before in Samuel Arnold's opera, "The Agreeable Surprise".
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Original text and translations
English text
Amo, amas, I love a lass
As a cedar tall and slender;
Sweet cowslip's grace is her nom'tive case,
And she's of the feminine gender.
Rorum corum sunt divorum,
Harum scarum divo;
Tag rag merry derry, periwig and hatband,
Hic hoc horum genitivo.
Can I decline a nymph divine,
Her voice as a flute is dulcis;
Her oculus bright, her manus white,
And soft when I tacto her pulse is.
Rorum corum sunt divorum,
Harum scarum divo;
Tag rag merry derry, periwig and hatband,
Hic hoc horum genitivo.
O how bella my puella
I'll kiss sæcula sæculorum;
If I've luck, sir, she's my uxor,
O dies benedictorum.
Rorum corum sunt divorum,
Harum scarum divo;
Tag rag merry derry, periwig and hatband,
Hic hoc horum genitivo.