My love hath vowed he will forsake me (Thomas Campion)

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CPDL #11107: 

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-02-27).   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: All compositions listed alphabetically by composer

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Title: My love hath vowed he will forsake me
Composer: Thomas Campion

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SA

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

English text

My love hath vowed hee will forsake me

And I am already sped.

For other promise he did make me

When he had my maidenhead.

If such danger be in playing

And sport must to earnest turn no more a-maying.

Had I forseen what is ensued,

And what now with pain I prove,

Unhappy then I had eschewed,

This unkind event of love,

Maids foreknow their own undoing,

But fear naught till all is done, alone is wooing

Dissembling wretch to gain thy pleasure,

What didst thou not vow and swear?

So didst thou rob me of the treasure,

Which so long I held so dear.

Now thou prov’st to me a stranger,

Such is the vile guise of men, woman in danger.

That heart is nearest to misfortune,

That will trust a feigned tongue,

When flatt’ring men our loves importune,

They intend us deepest wrong,

If this shame of loves betraying,

But this once I cleanly shun, no more amaying.