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To Lucasta on going to the wars (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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General Information
Title: To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1895
Description: Number 1 of Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 3, Lyrics: Richard Lovelace - (1618 - 1658), "Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, ..." (1649)
External websites:
- PDF of Richard Lovelace's 1817 printing of his 1649 book: "Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, ..."
Original text and translations
English text
- Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
- That from the nunnery
- Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
- To war and arms I fly.
- True, a new mistress now I chase,
- The first foe in the field;
- And with a stronger faith embrace
- A sword, a horse, a shield.
- Yet this inconstancy is such
- As you too shall adore;
- I could not love thee, dear, so much,
- Lov'd I not honour more.
