The self banished (John Blow)
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- CPDL #33037:
- Editor: Cathal Twomey (submitted 2014-09-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: At original pitch for high voice and continuo. Underlay is first verse only; edition includes suggestions for how to add the other verses.
General Information
Title: The Self Banished
Composer: John Blow
Lyricist: Edmund Waller
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1700
Description: Minuet setting of a poem by Waller, published in 'Amphion Angelicus', a collection of vocal music by John Blow, in 1700.
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Original text and translations
English text
It is not that I love you less
Than when before your feet I lay,
But to prevent the sad increase
Of hopeless love, I keep away.
In vain (alas!) for everything
Which I have known belong to you,
Your form does to my fancy bring,
And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
Who in the spring from the new sun
Already has a fever got,
Too late begins those shafts to shun,
Which Phœbus through his veins has shot.
Too late he would the pain assuage,
And to thick shadows does retire;
About with him he bears the rage,
And in his tainted blood the fire.
But vow’d I have, and never must
Your banish’d servant trouble you;
For if I break, you may distrust
The vow I made to love you, too.