Down with Bacchus (Henry Purcell)

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Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2002-08-12).   Score information: Letter, 24 pages, 280 kbytes   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: From a collection of Drinking songs

General Information

Title: Down with Bacchus
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Canons

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description:

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Original text and translations

English text

Down, down with Bacchus,

down, down with Bacchus:

from this honor Renounce,

renounce the grape's tyrannick pow'r;

Whilst in our large,

our large confed'rate bowl,

and mingling vertue, chear the soul.

Down with the French,

down with the French,

march on to Nantz,

For whose, for whose dear sake wee'l con'quer France;

And when, when th'inspiring cups swell high,

their hungry, hungry juice with score, with score defy.

Rouse, rouse, rouse, rouse royal boyes,

your forces joyn To rout,

to rout the Monsieur and his wine;

Then, then, then,

then the next year our bowl shall be quaff'd,

quaff'd under the vines in Burgundy.