Dear, if you change (John Dowland)
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- CPDL #5474: Capella 4.
- Editor: Ulrich Alpers (added 2003-08-18). Score information: A4, kbytes Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Eva Toller (added 2002-12-01). Score information: A4, kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: MIDI files available for each part
- CPDL #1528: ABC.
- Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2000-10-23). Score information: kbytes Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: in partbook format
General Information
Title: Deare, if you change
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB or TTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella (originally with lute tablature)
Published:
Description: No VII from First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
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Original text and translations
English text
Dear, if you change
I'll never choose again,
sweet, if you shrink
I'll never think of love,
Fair, if you fail,
I'll judge all beauty vain,
Wise, if too weak,
more wits i'll never prove.
Dear, sweet, fair, wise,
change, shrink, nor be not weak,
and on my faith
shall never break.
Earth with flowers
shall sooner heav'n adorn,
heaven her bright stars
through earths dim globe shall move,
fire heat shall loose
and frost of flames be born
air made to shine
as black as hell shall prove
Earth, heaven, fire, air,
the world transform'd shall be,
e're I prove false to faith
or strange to you.