Dear, if you change (John Dowland)
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- Editor: David Newman (submitted 2008-08-21). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 101 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Edition in A minor
- CPDL #15993: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-02-15). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 26 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2003-08-18). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 51 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Eva Toller (submitted 2002-12-01). Score information: 19.7 x 28.4 cm, 5 pages, 108 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: MIDI files available for each part.
- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2000-10-23). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 271 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: in partbook format.
General Information
Title: Dear, if you change
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lute song
Language: English
Instruments: Lute
Published: The First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597), No. 7
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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.