Love (Joseph Cox Bridge)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 798 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Love
Composer: Joseph Cox Bridge
Lyricist: Robert Jones
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1904 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Love is a prettie frenzie,
A melancholy fire,
Begot by lookes,
Maintain’d with hopes,
And heithend by desire.
Love is a prettie tyrant,
By our affections armed,
Take them away,
None lives this day,
The coward boy hath harm’d.
Love is a prettie painter,
And counterfeiteth passion;
His shadow’d lies
Make fansies rise,
To set beliefe in fashion.
Love is a prettie pedlar,
Whose packe is fraught with sorrowes,
With doubtes, with feares,
With sighs, with teares,
Some joyes; but those he borrowes.
Love is a prettie nothing,
Yet what a quoile it keepes,
With thousand eyes
Of jealousies,
Yet no one ever sleepes.
The Muses’ Gardin for Delights (1611)